August 8, 2004

Overnight, the IDF sends troops, military vehicles into Rafah, demolishing 3 Palestinian homes, firing on residential areas. The IDF also sends troops into al-Qarara under heavy shelling, injuring 4 Palestinians, bulldozing 5 dunams of land; expels to Gaza fr. Jericho a Palestinian woman married to a Jericho resident, their 2 children, arguing that her Gaza residency card means that she has been living in the West Bank illegally. (XIN 8/8; PCHR 8/12)