June 23, 2010

IDF troops on the Israeli side of the Erez crossing fire warning shots at Palestinians scavenging for construction materials in the industrial zone, wounding 1 Palestinian teenager. In the West Bank, the IDF patrols in Azun village nr. Qalqilya and Bayda village nr. Salfit in the morning, without incident; conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in and around Dahaysha r.c. Israeli municipal officials in Jerusalem force a Palestinian family in the Old City to demolish their home or cover the cost of Israeli authorities demolishing it; the family had already paid $4,700 in fines for building the house without a permit. (PCHR 6/24; OCHA 6/25; PCHR 7/1; OCHA 7/2)