February 25, 2009

The IDF carries out air strikes on smuggling tunnels on the Rafah border in retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire on s. Israel; no injuries are reported by either side. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in and around Jenin town and r.c., nr. Hebron. (PCHR, WP 2/26; OCHA 3/3, 3/4; PCHR 3/5)