Tuesday security round-up: Supreme Court paves way for release of murderer, Arab terrorists burn car, Arab truck-thief gang arrested, Livni calls for containing Hizbullah.
1. The Supreme Court surprised no one by turning down a suit against the upcoming exchange of terrorist murderer Samir Kuntar, four other live terrorists, and dozens of Lebanese and Hizbullah corpses, in exchange for what are apparently two Israeli corpses - the bodies of abducted soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.
The suit against the exchange had been filed by the brothers of one of Samir Kuntar's victims, Eliyahu Shachar, together with the Almagor Terror Victims Association. Kuntar led a team of Lebanese terrorists on a 1979 attack in Nahariya in which he murdered three Israelis and led to the death of a fourth.
Yoram Shachar, one of the rebuffed plaintiffs, said afterwards, "I have no choice but to call upon the Regev and Goldwasser families to follow the lead of Tami Arad, in her day, and announce publicly that they do not wish to have murderers released merely to receive dead bodies in return."
2. Palestinian terrorists threw a firebomb at an Israeli car Tuesday afternoon - setting the car totally ablaze. The Jewish driver managed to escape safely. The terror incident occurred just west of the Ariel junction in the Shomron.
3. An Arab ring of truck-thieves in the Negev has been arrested in southern Judea. The robbers' method over the past several months was to place a phone order for a moving van, stating an address in southern Judea. The criminals would then commandeer the truck and steal it. Their end came Tuesday afternoon when policemen from the Negev District hid inside a truck that was ordered in this manner. When the robbers made their bid to take over the truck, the policemen emerged and arrested them. It did not go over quietly, however. Bullets were fired and one of the robbers was injured and is listed in moderate condition. His three accomplices were arrested.
4. On another security front, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni toured the northern border area with visiting Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Tuesday. "I brought the Italian Foreign Minister here in order to show him the situation in southern Lebanon," Livni said. "Italy has an important role as a leading force in the international peace-keeping force here. I made it clear to the Minister that the arming of Hizbullah via the Syrian-Lebanese border must be stopped."