IDF troops and an Israeli settler shoot and critically injure 2 Palestinian youths in a supermarket nr. Jerusalem after they attacked 2 settlers, killing 1 and injuring the other. The IDF then closes down a main road nearby, and bars Palestinians from entering the settlement where the alleged stabbing occurred, excluding certain laborers. Elsewhere in the West Bank, IDF troops conduct late-night house searches and raids nr. Tulkarm and Ramallah, arresting 1 Palestinian; patrol during the day in 3 villages nr. Jenin, 6 nr. Hebron, and 4 nr. Ramallah. Israeli forces assault and injure a Palestinian worker at a checkpoint nr. Bethlehem and deliver stop-work orders to 6 Palestinian buildings under construction nr. Hebron. Along Gaza’s border, Israeli forces conduct a limited incursion across the border fence to level land nr. Rafah. In East Jerusalem, Israeli forces arrest a former Palestinian prisoner from a bus e. of the city. (HA, JP, MNA, TOI, WAFA, YA 2/18; MNA 2/19, 2/20; PCHR 2/25)
Thursday, February 18, 2016