March 25, 2007

The IDF sends tanks, bulldozers into Gaza e. of al-Maghazi r.c. to level land. Palestinians fire an RPG at an IDF observation post on the Gaza border e. of al-Maghazi r.c., causing no injuries. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts late-night arrest raids, house searches in and around Hebron; issues military order seizing 80 d. of Palestinian land nr. Qalqilya for construction of the separation wall. A 51-yr.-old Palestinian is found stabbed to death outside Itamar settlement nr. Nablus in an area controlled and patrolled by the IDF. Fatah, Hamas exchange fire in Bayt Lahiya, accidentally killing a 4-yr.-old Palestinian child. (NYT 3/26; OCHA 3/28; PCHR 3/29)