Saturday, April 19, 2008

Weekly Report - April 1

Six Palestinians were killed by the IDF in the Gaza Strip, and one member of Islamic Jihad died of wounds incurred a month prior during the IDF’s large-scale offensive on the Strip. IDF bulldozers continued to raise crops in Strip.

IDF bulldozers raised 50 dunams of olive trees in Khan Younis (Gaza) and destroyed three houses. Israeli settlers from Efrat uprooted 100 Palestinian-owned trees in the Bethlehem area. Other Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian man near Ramallah and injured three others.

OCHA reported 12 curfew hours, 85 flying checkpoints, 91 search operations and 62 arrests.