September 23, 2009

Israeli naval vessels detain for 12 hrs. 5 fishermen off the n. Gaza shore and confiscate their boat. The IDF also makes a brief incursion into n. Gaza to level land along the border fence n. of Bayt Hanun. (PCHR 10/1)

In the West Bank, the IDF reopens 3 gates in the separation wall in the Jerusalem governorate that were closed on 8/26; local Palestinian farmers who rely on the gates for access to their land located between the separation wall and the Green Line report that their grape crops have been damaged because of the prolonged closure. The IDF also conducts late-night raids, house searches nr. Hebron, Salfit, and Tulkarm and in and around Nablus, arresting 11 Palestinians. (OCHA Humanitarian Monitor 9/09; PCHR 10/1)