At approximately 3am, on 15 April 2008, the IOF, backed by military vehicles entered one kilometer into Al Qarara village in eastern Khan Younis.
Some of these forces stormed into homes and turned them into military barracks.
After each home was seized by the IOF, residents were forced to stay in one room while the incursion continued.
Also, the IOF stormed into Abu Alaa Al Ma'ri School and remained stationed there.

Then the IOF forced males over the age of 16 to leave their homes.
About 58 civilian men were taken and put into a large hole in the area of the incursion.
This hole was made by the IOF's bulldozers on land owned by the Abu Sabet family.
The IOF detained the 58 citizens in the hole and bound their wrists.

At approximately 5pm, the IOF, which was stationed on the roof of a home, opened fire at 32-year-old Ziad Ali Mohammed Hajaj.
Ziad was with his wife, holding his five-month old child, Nihad, at the time.
They were leaving their home in an attempt to reach a more secure place.
The vicinity of his home was subjected to shelling and bulldozing.
As a result, he was injured by five live bullets to his back and his right leg.
Using a civilian car, he was taken to Nasser Hospital for treatment and was reported to have sustained moderate injuries.

Around the same time, the 58 men held in the hole were taken in a military truck to the border line.
The IOF detained them in an open area, where they remained bound and blindfolded until 1 pm the next day.
Then the IOF released them, except for five who remain under detention.

During the incursion, the IOF bulldozed 120 dunams of land cultivated with olive trees, almonds trees, palm trees, vegetables, wheat and barley.
They destroyed the irrigation network and damaged the telephone and electricity networks.
The IOF bulldozed land belonging to Khashan, As Semari, Al Emawi, Hajaj, Abu Sabet, Al Qassas, Al Halbi, Al Laham, Shebair and At Talalqa families.

At approximately 10:30pm, the IOF withdrew from the area and took post at the top of Al Kord hill in Wadi As Salqa village.
Withdrawing via Kissofem Road, the IOF opened fire intermittently and prevented citizens from moving or leaving their homes.
The IOF remained in Wadi As Salqa until 12pm, on 16 April 2008.