July 23, 2004

The IDF expands operations in Bayt Hanun; fires on residential areas of Rafah, damaging a number of rooms in a nearby hospital, injuring 1 patient; demolishes 5 Palestinian homes in Rafah; conducts arrest raids in Hebron, Rafah, Tubas, Yatta. In Bayt Hanun, a Palestinian family attempts to stop 4 armed AMB mbrs. fr. launching a Qassam rocket fr. their property; 1 AMB mbr. fires on the family, killing a 15-yr.-old Palestinian boy, wounding 2 others. (VOI, VOP, YA 7/23 in WNC 7/27; NYT 7/24; PCHR 7/29)