December 22, 2002

The IDF shells residential areas of Rafah; fires at stone-throwing children in Khan Yunis, wounding 1; fires tear gas into an elementary school in Tulkarm while classes are in session; demolishes a Palestinian home nr. Hebron; makes arrest raids in Tulkarm. (LAW, PCHR 12/25)

Israel's Interior Minister Yishai closes the Voice of Truth and Freedom, a newspaper published by the northern branch of the Islamic Movement on the grounds that it is an “almost certain” danger to national security, saying the move “is part of our effort in the war on terror." (HA 12/22, 12/23)