May 1, 2006

IDF soldiers manning a checkpoint outside the Ibrahimi Mosque/Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron severely beat a 65-yr.-old Palestinian woman, delay an ambulance fr. treating her for 20 mins. The IDF also conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Hebron, Tulkarm (targeting Islamic Jihad; fatally shooting a 44-yr.-old Palestinian woman and wounding her 3 daughters, occupying a Palestinian home as an observation post) and in Azun, Balata r.c., Bethlehem, Jericho, Nablus (firing on residential areas). (IMEMC 5/1; PCHR 5/4)