Tense quiet reigned in late afternoon in Gush Katif following several hours of warfare there. The violence began this morning when two Arabs placed a large explosive near the Jewish community of Ganei Tal. They hoped to detonate it alongside a passing Israeli van on the main Gush Katif road at the Medrashah Junction. IDF soldiers detected them and opened fire, killing both, and the bomb exploded harmlessly.
Arabs later fired mortar shells at Jewish areas in Gush Katif, including three shells during the course of the day at the N’vei Dekalim industrial zone. One Jew was lightly wounded and taken to Soroka Hospital in Be\'er Sheva, and one of the factories suffered some damage.
Two terrorists failed in their missions in Jerusalem today. In the south of the capital, an Arab opened fire at a Border Guard policeman; his shots missed their target, and the terrorist managed to escape. Further north, at the city\'s French Hill junction, a young Arab woman tried to stab an Israeli Border Guard policeman. She did not succeed, and policemen chased and caught her. She may have been inspired by yesterday’s decision of the Iraqi regime to build a monument in memory to the young woman suicide terrorist - Wafa Idris - who blew herself up in downtown Jerusalem on Sunday, killing 81-year-old Pinchas Tukatli. In Shechem today, thousands of Arabs attended a symbolic funeral for Idris and praised her as a martyr. Her remains are being held by Israeli authorities.
Arabs later fired mortar shells at Jewish areas in Gush Katif, including three shells during the course of the day at the N’vei Dekalim industrial zone. One Jew was lightly wounded and taken to Soroka Hospital in Be\'er Sheva, and one of the factories suffered some damage.
Two terrorists failed in their missions in Jerusalem today. In the south of the capital, an Arab opened fire at a Border Guard policeman; his shots missed their target, and the terrorist managed to escape. Further north, at the city\'s French Hill junction, a young Arab woman tried to stab an Israeli Border Guard policeman. She did not succeed, and policemen chased and caught her. She may have been inspired by yesterday’s decision of the Iraqi regime to build a monument in memory to the young woman suicide terrorist - Wafa Idris - who blew herself up in downtown Jerusalem on Sunday, killing 81-year-old Pinchas Tukatli. In Shechem today, thousands of Arabs attended a symbolic funeral for Idris and praised her as a martyr. Her remains are being held by Israeli authorities.