A 23-year-old Moslem terrorist, a member of the Islamic Jihad terrorist gang, was killed during an operation to apprehend wanted terrorists in Jericho. IDF forces arrested two Fatah terrorists in the city; 17 other terrorists were arrested elsewhere in Judea and Samaria over the night.



Moslem Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a deadly Kassam rocket early this afternoon towards the Zikim area just south of Ashkelon. No damage was caused.



The Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza was opened this morning, for the first time, for the passage of goods from Egypt into Gaza. Some 50 trucks will carry flour and other basic foodstuffs.



Two Arabs of Shechem (Nablus) were indicted in a Samaria military court on Tuesday for membership in the Jordanian branch of Al-Qaeda. The two, in their twenties, allegedly planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel and actively recruited friends to Al-Qaeda.