IDF continues shelling, bulldozing residential areas in and around Jinin, killing 3 Palestinians, wounding 21. A 4th suspected Islamic Jihad mbr. wounded in Arraba on 9/12 dies of his injuries. A Palestinian suicide bomber detonates a device nr. an IDF tank in Jinin, killing only himself. The IDF sends forces into Jericho to attack PSF posts; shells, destroys 1 Palestinian home. Troops pull out of areas A in Jericho, Jinin by midafternoon. In Ramallah, 1 Palestinian is shot dead by IDF troops who say he refused to stop at a checkpoint. A group of Jewish settlers, angry over the shooting death of a settler on 9/12, destroy and vandalize Palestinian cars, property, greenhouses in Qalqilya. (HP 9/12; AP, GS, WP 9/13; WP, WT 9/14; AYM 9/15 in WNC 9/25; MEI 9/28; LAW 9/29)
Thursday, September 13, 2001