January 8, 2019

Along Gaza's border, Israeli forces conduct a limited incursion to level land near Bayt Lahiya. In the West Bank, IDF troops confiscate surveillance tapes and arrest 13 Palestinians during late-night raids in and around Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarm, Bethlehem, Qalqilya, and Tulkarm; and patrol near Jenin, Bethlehem, Hebron, and Tulkarm. Israeli settlers uproot approximately 30 olive trees from a Palestinian grove near Hebron and leave racist graffiti on large rocks nearby. (HA, TOI, WAFA 1/8; PCHR 1/10)