October 8, 2006

An IDF air strike destroys the Khan Yunis home of a Hamas mbr.; the IDF warns the residents in advance to leave. In the West Bank, the IDF fires on a car nr. al-Til nr. Nablus, killing 1 Palestinian civilian; patrols in, fires on residential areas of Kfar Ra’i nr. Jenin; conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Nablus, in Hebron. Jewish settlers fr. Brakha nr. Nablus steal fruit, olives fr. Palestinian orchards in Kafr Qalil. Palestinians in Jericho, Ramallah observe a general strike to protest intraPalestinian violence in Gaza. (OCHA 10/11; PCHR 10/12)