March 8, 2008

IDF troops on the n. Gaza border shoot, wound a mentally handicapped Palestinian who strays nr. the border fence nr. Bayt Lahiya. The IDF also bulldozes land inside the Gaza border fence e. of al-Maghazi r.c. The Israeli navy fires on Palestinian fishing boats off the s. Gaza coast, seriously wounding 1 fisherman. Egyptian border police discover, demolish 6 smuggling tunnels along the Rafah border. (OCHA 3/12; PCHR 3/13)