October 7, 2009

In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night raids, house searches in and around Jenin town and r.c., arresting 2 Palestinians. (PCHR 10/8)

Israeli police arrest American-born Jewish settler Yaakov Teitel on charges of murdering Palestinians, bombing a leftist Israeli professor's home, and maiming a 15-yr.-old boy belonging to a community of Jews for Jesus. (NYT, WT 11/2; OCHA, WJW 11/5; OCHA 11/09)

Facing tremendous domestic criticism, Abbas reverses his position on deferring discussion of the Goldstone report at the HRC. (NYT, HA 10/7)