Soldiers arrested 20 wanted terrorists in overnight maneuvers in Judea and Samaria and confiscated one M-16 semi-automatic rifle found in a home. No one was injured n the counterterrorist operations in Judea and Samaria.
The Palestinian Authority is committed by previous agreements to tear down the terrorist infrastructure and has deployed armed forces, trained by American army officers, in several large Arab cities. However, the security forces are not deployed in the middle of the night, when the IDF rounds up wanted terrorists on a nightly basis.