Israeli naval vessels fire warning shots at Palestinian fishing boats off the Gaza coast 3 times during the day, forcing them to return to shore. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts a rare daytime arrest raid into Tulkarm and conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in Bethlehem and nr. Nablus. Dozens of Palestinians demonstrate outside Israel’s Ofer prison nr. Ramallah in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners; the IDF fires rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas, and percussion grenades to disperse them, causing no reported injuries. Jewish settlers fr. Ma’on settlement nr. Hebron uproot 30 olive trees on nearby Palestinian land. Jewish settlers fr. Karme Tzur nr. Hebron attack a Palestinian farmer working his field nearby; the IDF observes but does not intervene until other Palestinians come to the farmer’s aid, firing tear gas and percussion grenades to disperse the Palestinians and arresting 1. (PCHR 6/14; OCHA 6/15)
Monday, June 11, 2012