July 6, 2007

IDF troops operating in n. Gaza nr. Bayt Hanun capture 8 rocket launchers and rockets. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts arrest raids, house searches in Balata r.c., Jenin town and r.c., Nablus; fires rubber-coated steel bullets, percussion grenades, tear gas at Palestinian, Israeli, international activists holding weekly nonviolent demonstrations against the separation wall in Bil‘in, injuring 3. In Gaza City, ESF, Islamic Jihad mbrs. exchange fire, causing no injuries. (NYT 7/7; OCHA 7/11; PCHR 7/12)