The IDF raids Jenin, fatally shoots wanted AMB mbrs. Said Hardan, Kamal Masa’id in an apparent assassination, also killing a Palestinian bystander, shooting and wounding a Palestinian journalist who arrives to cover the scene. Later in the day in Jenin, the IDF fires on a car carrying 2 wanted AMB mbrs., wounding both, barring ambulances fr. reaching the area for 1 hr., allowing AMB mbr. Husni Daraghma to bleed to death; the other AMB mbr., Iyad Daraghma, is seriously wounded. The IDF also bulldozes 11 dunams of land outside Nablus; conducts arrest raids, house searches nr. Hebron. Jewish settlers fr. Susia severely beat a Palestinian farmer,steal his tractor; the IDF observes but does not intervene. (VOP 4/24 in WNC 4/27; NYT, WT 4/25; PR 4/28; PCHR 4/29)
Saturday, April 24, 2004