The IDF enters the Erez industrial zone on the n. Gaza border and levels the remaining buildings and factories, builds sand berms to block the road from the zone into Gaza, shells Palestinian residential areas near the zone (reportedly using flechette shells), killing 2 Palestinians. Troops are still operating in the zone at the end of the day. In the West Bank, the IDF fires rubber-coated steel bullets, percussion grenades, tear gas at Palestinian, Israeli, international activists taking part in nonviolent demonstrations against the separation wall in Bil‘in (injuring 2) and al-Ma‘sara s. of Ramallah (injuring 4). In Khan Yunis, some 15,000 Hamas supporters participate in a nonviolent march to protest the upcoming Annapolis summit. (OCHA 11/28; PCHR 11/29)
Friday, November 23, 2007