The IDF continues operations in Gaza City, launching missile strikes killing 4 Palestinian gunmen, wounding 3 civilians. Also in Gaza, the IDF fires on residential areas of al-Shuka fr. Dahaniyya airport, killing 1 Palestinian; later conducts arrest raids, house searches in al-Shuka, also bulldozing agricultural land. In the West Bank, the IDF sends undercover units into Ramallah in a car with Palestinian license plates, fatally shooting an AMB mbr. wanted for killing an Israeli truck driver nr. Ramallah in 2004 in an apparent assassination; conducts arrest raids nr. Jericho (targeting the AMB, firing on stone throwing Palestinians who confront them, wounding 1). A Palestinian woman dies of injuries received during an IDF attack on Jabaliya r.c. on 7/9. PA civil servants in Ramallah hold a strike and march, hospital workers in Nablus strike to protest the government’s failure to pay salaries. In s. Gaza, Hamas mbrs. manning a checkpoint fatally shoot a Palestinian who refuses to stop. Haniyeh announces that the PA will soon make 1-time payments of $100 to some 50,000 unemployed Palestinians. Nr. Bayt Hanun, 2 Palestinian boys are injured when they accidentally detonate unexploded IDF ordnance. (NYT 8/29; WT 8/30; PCHR 8/31)
Monday, August 28, 2006