Soldiers arrested a wanted terrorist in Jenin Sunday night, 24 hours after visiting United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left the city. She praised the Palestinian Authority for turning Jenin, which along with Shechem has shared the title of the terror capitals of Israel, into what she said was a place of law and order. 

Israel agreed to an American plan for the PA to deploy hundreds of American-trained armed PA special forces in Jenin, Shechem and Hebron, with plans to extend the force to Kalkilya, adjacent to Kfar Saba. However, the PA forces usually deal with criminal and traffic offenders and leave the IDF to carry out counterterrorist operations in the middle of the night, when the PA forces do not operate.

Army troops arrested 24 terrorists Sunday night and Monday morning in Ramallah and Bethlehem besides the terrorist nabbed in Jenin.