April 22, 2009

The IDF makes a late-night incursion into n. Gaza to level land along the n. border fence nr. Bayt Hanun. In the West Bank, the IDF raids and demolishes a bedouin encampment in al-Fahm southeast of Nablus, demolishing 8 homes and livestock pens, confiscating the contents and displacing 50 Palestinians; demolishes a Palestinian home in East Jerusalem, displacing a mother, father, and 5 children; conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in Tulkarm and nr. Bethlehem, Hebron. In keeping with separation wall construction work begun on 4/19, the IDF declares 4,000 d. of Palestinian land s. of Hebron (belonging to the villages of ‘Arab al-Ramadin, Dura, and Dahariyya) a closed military zone. (PCHR 4/23; OCHA, PCHR 4/29)