The IDF raids Jenin, assassinates wanted AMB Jenin leader Tahir Abu Kamil (also reported as Tha’ir Husayn), demolishing the house in which he was hiding, crushing him to death; fires on residential areas of Rafah; conducts arrest raids, house searches in Dura, severely beating a Palestinian woman, her 2 children. In Bayt Lahiya, the IDF surrounds and searches 35 bedouin homes, detains all males over age 16 for photographing and questioning, confiscates a computer, bulldozes 13 d. of surrounding land. Palestinians fire some 14 mortars at Gaza settlements, causing damage but no injuries. Some 70 armed Jewish settlers fr. Gaza’s Kefar Darom settlement seize, occupy, expel Palestinian families fr. 5 homes in Dayr al-Balah. (HA, JAZ, JP 12/25; NYT, WT 12/26; PR 12/29; PCHR 12/30)
Saturday, December 25, 2004