January 20, 2007

For a 2d day, IDF troops at the Erez crossing fire into Gaza at Palestinians collecting scrap metal nr. the border, wounding 2 Palestinian teenagers. IDF troops on the Gaza Border nr. Bayt Lahiya shoot, wound a Palestinian who strays too nr. the border fence. Egyptian forces demolish a smugglers’ tunnel on the Rafah border. In the West Bank, the IDF conducts arrest raids, house searches nr. Bethlehem. Jewish settlers beat a Palestinian nr. Qalqilya. (OCHA 1/24; PCHR 1/25)