IDF helicopters attacked Hamas offices in Gaza today, killing two Hamas terrorists. During the night, army forces cut Gaza into three sections, thus preventing terrorists from traveling from one area to another. Similar measures have been taken in the past in response to terrorist attacks, but the blockades were always removed shortly afterwards. A total of ten Arabs, including at least three other armed terrorists, were killed in battles with Israeli soldiers since last night - two in the Balata neighborhood in Shechem and the rest in Gaza. This morning a heavy battle took place in the Windmill Junction in Gush Katif, after Arabs opened fire on Israeli soldiers. Later in the morning, IDF bulldozers demolished several Arab buildings in the area of the Kisufim Crossing, near the site of last night\'s murderous attack. The terrorist hid in or near some of the buildings before he began shooting. Before more houses could be demolished, the Supreme Court accepted a petition from Arab MK Muhammed Barakeh and ruled that the demolitions must stop until a three-justice forum rules, sometime this week, on which houses may be taken down.
Hizbullah terrorists fired mortars at Israeli aircraft along the northern border this afternoon, and shrapnel fell in Kiryat Shmonah. No one was hurt... A military D-9 bulldozer operating in the Mt. Eval area in the Shomron was targeted in an early afternoon bomb attack. No one was hurt; the D-9 sustained damage...
Israel Air Force fighter planes also targeted PLO police headquarters in Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, and other PLO buildings in Rafiach on the Israeli-Egyptian border... In a separate incident, IDF troops killed an Arab terrorist late last night who was trying to infiltrate the community of Morag in southern Gaza... Other violence in Gush Katif after last night\'s murderous attack included shooting at an IDF post near Kfar Darom, another outpost in northern Gaza, and grenades at an outpost near Rafiach. Israeli forces returned fire... An Arab mortar was fired at southern Gaza.
Turkey confirmed today that it had arrested two Palestinians and a Jordanian on suspicion of conspiring with Bin Laden\'s Al Qaeda to carry out a major terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.
Hizbullah terrorists fired mortars at Israeli aircraft along the northern border this afternoon, and shrapnel fell in Kiryat Shmonah. No one was hurt... A military D-9 bulldozer operating in the Mt. Eval area in the Shomron was targeted in an early afternoon bomb attack. No one was hurt; the D-9 sustained damage...
Israel Air Force fighter planes also targeted PLO police headquarters in Ramallah, north of Jerusalem, and other PLO buildings in Rafiach on the Israeli-Egyptian border... In a separate incident, IDF troops killed an Arab terrorist late last night who was trying to infiltrate the community of Morag in southern Gaza... Other violence in Gush Katif after last night\'s murderous attack included shooting at an IDF post near Kfar Darom, another outpost in northern Gaza, and grenades at an outpost near Rafiach. Israeli forces returned fire... An Arab mortar was fired at southern Gaza.
Turkey confirmed today that it had arrested two Palestinians and a Jordanian on suspicion of conspiring with Bin Laden\'s Al Qaeda to carry out a major terrorist attack in Tel Aviv.