Thursday, July 17, 2008

In the West Bank, the IDF conducts latenight arrest raids, house searches in Qalandia r.c. nr. Jerusalem and nr. Nablus, Ramallah. Jewish settlers fr. Kiryat Arba occupy, set up tents on a plot of Palestinian land in Hebron’s Wadi al-Nassara neighborhood to expand an unauthorized outpost set up in a nearby building seized by settlers some time ago; the IDF reinforces troops in the area but does not intervene. (OCHA 7/23; PCHR 7/24)