The IDF raids the Freedom Theater in Jenin, arresting 2 Palestinian employees (it is unclear if the raid is connected to the 4/2011 murder of the theater’s director, Israeli-Palestinian actor Juliano Mer-Khamis); conducts late-night raids in Silwan in East Jerusalem (arresting a 14- yr.-old boy) and nr. Tulkarm. Israel sues bedouin residents of al-Araqib in the Negev for $500,000 to cover the IDF’s cost of demolishing their village each time they rebuild it, saying the residents “have not respected legal rulings and continue to build illegally” and the government must protect “the public purse”; since the IDF demolished the 45 structures in the village in 7/2010, it has returned to level the village 20 times, but each time the bedouin return to rebuild. (BBC 7/27; PCHR, WP 7/28; OCHA 8/5)
Wednesday, July 27, 2011