Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and GSS chief Avi Dichter met with PA officials Muhammad Dahlan and Muhammad Rashid last night. Afterwards, Israel removed the blockades from main Gaza roads, thus allowing free Arab traffic once again between all parts of the Gaza Strip. The blockades were placed after the fatal terrorist attack at Kisufim this past Monday, when three Israelis were murdered. The pattern of \"terrorist attack, blockades, remove the blockades, terrorist attack\" has repeated itself several times over the past few months.
The IDF also withdrew from a position it took up a week ago near Kfar Darom. The Palestinians responded with three mortar shells on an Israeli community in Gush Katif; no one was hurt.
In other attacks today:
Arabs fired at Gilo, in southern Jerusalem, again this morning, and a woman was wounded and taken to Hadassah Hospital. She is reported in light-to-moderate condition... The Tunnels Highway between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem was closed to traffic again today for a short while after IDF forces shot and wounded a suspected terrorist there… IDF soldiers apprehended another terrorist in a Shechem-area village on his way to a suicide attack… An Israeli vehicle was targeted in a shooting attack near the Shomron community of Kedumim; no one was hurt…
Last night\'s Palestinian violence included shooting at soldiers near the Herodion, east of Gush Etzion; a bomb at a tank near Shechem; shooting at Gilo; and a bomb at a jeep in the Shomron. No one was hurt.
The sixth victim of Tuesday night\'s Ein Arik attack, Sgt. Mikhail Ochsman, was buried in the non-Jewish section of the Haifa Military Cemetery this morning. He was the son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Ochsman and five other combat engineering-force soldiers were mowed down by Arabs in a well-planned attack at a checkpoint west of Ramallah. One other soldier was wounded, and an eighth escaped physically unscathed.
The IDF also withdrew from a position it took up a week ago near Kfar Darom. The Palestinians responded with three mortar shells on an Israeli community in Gush Katif; no one was hurt.
In other attacks today:
Arabs fired at Gilo, in southern Jerusalem, again this morning, and a woman was wounded and taken to Hadassah Hospital. She is reported in light-to-moderate condition... The Tunnels Highway between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem was closed to traffic again today for a short while after IDF forces shot and wounded a suspected terrorist there… IDF soldiers apprehended another terrorist in a Shechem-area village on his way to a suicide attack… An Israeli vehicle was targeted in a shooting attack near the Shomron community of Kedumim; no one was hurt…
Last night\'s Palestinian violence included shooting at soldiers near the Herodion, east of Gush Etzion; a bomb at a tank near Shechem; shooting at Gilo; and a bomb at a jeep in the Shomron. No one was hurt.
The sixth victim of Tuesday night\'s Ein Arik attack, Sgt. Mikhail Ochsman, was buried in the non-Jewish section of the Haifa Military Cemetery this morning. He was the son of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. Ochsman and five other combat engineering-force soldiers were mowed down by Arabs in a well-planned attack at a checkpoint west of Ramallah. One other soldier was wounded, and an eighth escaped physically unscathed.