The IDF opens fire on stone-throwing youths in Balata r.c., fatally shooting a 14-yr-old Palestinian in the head; demolishes 3 Palestinian homes in Rafah, 1 in Hebron; storms an elementary school nr. Tulkarm, critically wounding 1 student; shells, fires on residential areas of Khan Yunis, hitting a hospital and a school, injuring 3 students in their classrooms; conducts arrest raids in Bethlehem. The IDF delays the evacuation of 10 unauthorized settlement outposts, citing anger and anxiety among the settlers. (VOI 5/4 in WNC 5/5; HA, NYT, WT 5/5; PCHR 5/8)
Labor leader Amram Mitzna resigns, citing “intrigue and interference” fr. other party leaders, the party losses in the 1/03 elections. Labor cannot immediately agree on a replacement, further debilitating the already weak party. (HA, NYT, WP, WT 5/5; MM 5/6, 5/7, 5/8)