Wednesday, January 31, 2007

IDF troops on the Gaza border east of Bureij r.c. fire on, arrest 3 unarmed Palestinian teenagers who stray nr. the border fence. IDF troops stationed in the Erez industrial zone fire on armed Palestinians who approach their post, causing no injuries. Palestinians detonate a roadside bomb nr. an IDF unit patrolling the Gaza border fence nr. Khan Yunis, causing no damage or injures; the IDF unit retaliates with heavy machine gun fire into Gaza, causing no damage or injuries. In the West Bank, the IDF sends an undercover unit into Nablus in a car with Palestinian license plates to arrest a wanted Palestinian, wounding 1 bystander, then firing on stone-throwing Palestinians who confront the troops, wounding a 14-yr.-old Palestinian boy; demolishes a Palestinian home in the old city of Nablus; conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Nablus (blowing up the 2d story of a Palestinian home), in al-‘Arub r.c., and nr. Bethlehem, Hebron, Tulkarm. Fatah mbrs. fire on Hamas mbrs. in Bayt Lahiya, wounding 1. Unidentified gunmen shoot, wound a Force 17 officer in Gaza City. Suspected Fatah mbrs. set fire to the car of a Hamas mbr. in Khan Yunis. (PCHR 2/1; OCHA 2/7; PCHR 2/8)