March 13, 2004

The IDF fatally shoots 2 armed Palestinians who enter a closed military zone along the Gaza border with Israel; fatally shoots a mentally handicapped Palestinian nr. Nablus; raids, evacuates, closes a secondary school in Ya‘bad nr. Jenin; fires on residential areas of al-Qarara, wounding a 14-yr.-old Palestinian outside his home; conducts arrest raids, house searches in and around Nablus. (VOP 3/13 in WNC 3/16; WP 3/14; PCHR 3/18)