IDF troops on the Gaza border e. of Dayr al-Balah fire on 2 unarmed Palestinians attempting to sneak into Israel to find work, killing 1 Palestinian and arresting the other; fire into s. Gaza at Palestinian farmers who stray nr. the border fence nr. Shuka, causing no injuries. In the West Bank, the IDF fires on homes, businesses, stone-throwing Palestinians in Marda nr. Salfit, causing no injuries; conducts arrest raids, house searches in Qalqilya (firing on stone-throwing Palestinians), villages around Hebron; fires rubbercoated steel bullets, tear gas, percussion grenades at 10s of Palestinians as well as Israeli and international activists taking part in the weekly nonviolent demonstration against the separation wall in Bil‘in, beats others, injuring 20. (OCHA 3/14; PCHR 3/15)
Friday, March 9, 2007