January 18, 2010

In the West Bank, the IDF makes a brief incursion into Jenin r.c., setting up an observation point outside a Palestinian home, firing tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets at stone-throwing youths who approach them, injuring 1; stages synchronized latenight arrest raids, house searches in villages around Jenin; conducts arrest raids, house searches in Nablus and nr. Hebron. In East Jerusalem, Israeli work on an archeological tunnel from Silwan to the Old City causes a road outside Silwan to collapse. (OCHA 1/20; PCHR 1/21)