Sunday, May 3, 2015

In the Gaza Strip, an explosive device goes off in the Shaykh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City late at night. IDF troops stationed e. of the Gaza Valley arrest 2 Palestinian youth as they attempt to cross into Israel. They order the 2 young men to take off their clothes and will question them at a military site before releasing them on 5/4. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts drills nr. Nablus, causing damage to agricultural land with live ammunition; patrols in 1 village and al-Fawar r.c. nr. Hebron, Tulkarm, and 1 village nearby. In East Jerusalem, Israeli forces arrest 2 Palestinians on a late-night raid in Issawiyya. (MNA, WAFA 5/3)