Friday, April 14, 2006

The IDF continues to shell n. Gaza (wounding a Palestinian in Jabaliya r.c.), sends armored bulldozers several dozen yards inside Gaza for a 2d day to search for buried explosives, as IDF Dep. Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky warns that the IDF could launch ground operations into Gaza if rocket fire fr. Gaza into Israel keeps up. The IDF also opens the Kerem Shalom (closed 4/13) to allow in basic foodstuffs and gas (most trucks entering are for the UN); raids a girls elementary school in Far‘un in the West Bank; patrols in, fire on residential areas of Aida r.c.; conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Nablus, nr. Hebron. In Jabaliya r.c., 1,000s of Palestinians rally to denounce the cut off in some international aid, continued Israeli shelling and overflights of Gaza. (HA, NYT, WT 4/15; PCHR 4/20)