Two Kassam rockets landed in the western Negev over the Sabbath: one between Karmiya and Zikkim, and the other near Sderot, where a 13-year-old girl was treated for shock.
Four rockets were fired Friday. One each was launched at small communities south of Ashkelon from the former Jewish towns Dugit and Elei Sinai, situated in the northern Gaza region. Two other rockets landed near the western Negev town of Sderot, twenty seconds after the Red Dawn early warning system sounded the alarm and residents rushed toward cover. No injuries were reported.
Palestinian Authority (PA) police claimed to have defused two other rockets at a launch pad in northern Gaza, but the report has not been verified.
The IDF says that the increased number of targeted killings and artillery fire at open areas used for rocket-launching sites have brought about a decrease in the number of rockets fired at Israel.
An 80-pound bomb was found near the northern Gaza security fence and neutralized Saturday afternoon.
Two Arabs were arrested near Jenin with pipe bombs that they planned to throw at Jews.
A wanted Fatah terrorist was arrested over the Sabbath in a village south of Bethlehem.
PA-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria have been placed under "full closure" ahead of the Purim festival due to numerous concrete terrorist threats. Full closure entails placing blockades at the entrances to Arab villages along major roads in Judea and Samaria and barring thousands of PA Arabs who still work in Israeli towns from entering pre-'67 Israel. The IDF will grant exceptions for humanitarian reasons and special cases.
Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz has cancelled all IDF training and is curtailing leaves of absence for the Purim festival in order to deploy the maximum number of security forces to prevent large-scale terrorist attacks by Arabs in the Hamas-controlled PA, as well as by increasingly radical Israeli Arabs.