December 10, 2011

The IDF makes 4 late-night air strikes on a vacant house belonging to a senior IQB mbr. in Gaza City, heavily damaging a nearby home (alleged to be a weapons depot), seriously injuring 3 bystanders (including children ages 8 and 10). In the West Bank, the IDF patrols in Salfit twice in the morning; conducts synchronized patrols in 4 villages nr. Jenin in the afternoon; conducts late-night patrols in 3 villages nr. Salfit, 2 nr. Qalqilya, 1 nr. Jenin; conducts latenight arrest raids, house searches nr. Nablus. Mustafa al-Tamimi, the Palestinian hit in the head with an IDF tear gas canister in Nabi Salih on 12/9, dies of his injuries. (IDFS, WP 12/11; PCHR 12/15; OCHA 12/16)