June 26, 2010

Gaza’s electricity plant shuts down for lack of fuel; because of the power deficit and increased summer usage, Palestinians face rolling outages of 12–16 hrs./ day. A fire in a smuggling tunnel on the Rafah border injures 2 Palestinians. In the West Bank, the IDF makes a late-night raid on and search of a home nr. Hebron, making no arrests. In East Jerusalem, 10s of armed Jewish settlers storm and attempt to seize a Palestinian home in the disputed Silwan area, but Palestinian residents fend them off. (PCHR 7/1; OCHA 7/2)