In the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces wound 2 Palestinians in an air strike in Dayr al-Balah. The IDF says that the target was Abdullah Kharti, a Popular Resistance Cmtes. operative involved in rocket fire. Off the coast nr. Bayt Lahiya, Israeli naval vessels also open fire on Palestinian fishermen, causing no damage or injuries. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts house searches and arrest raids in Nablus and 1 nearby village, and in 1 village each nr. Hebron and Qalqilya at night; patrols in 1 village each nr. Jenin and Ramallah in the morning, in Qalqilya and 1 nearby village, and 1 village each nr. Hebron, Jenin and Salfit in the afternoon, and in 2 villages and al-‘Arub r.c. nr. Hebron, 2 villages nr. Jenin and 1 village nr. Ramallah at night. Jewish settlers uproot around 800 olive tree saplings nr. Ramallah, and in a separately incident, a settler assaults a Palestinian nr. Bethlehem, moderately wounding him. (MNA, WAFA 2/9; PCHR 2/13)
Sunday, February 9, 2014