September 4, 2006

In the West Bank, the IDF conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Hebron and Jenin town and r.c., nr. Bethlehem (targeting the AMB; firing on stone-throwing youths who confront them, wounding 2); raids an Islamic charity in Tubas nr. Jenin, confiscating computers, files. The Israeli Housing Min. issues tenders for construction (approved under the Sharon admin.) for construction of 690 new settlement housing units in Beitar Ilit (342 units), Ma’ale Adumim (348 units) in the E-1 area outside Jerusalem. In Nablus, Fatah gunmen enforcing the open-ended Government Employees Union strike (see 9/2) by keeping children, teachers away fr. schools, shoot, wound a 12-yr.-old Palestinian boy. (HA 9/4; NYT 9/5; REU 9/6; PCHR 9/7)