Earlier this morning, a city sanitation worker was accosted in Petach Tikvah by four Arabs who asked if he was Jewish. When he answered affirmatively, they began stabbing him and then ran away. The Jew is hospitalized in what is defined as \"light\" condition. Later in the morning, there was a shooting in northern Shomron at an Israeli car, two grenades at soldiers near the N\'vei Dekalim industrial zone, and a grenade at an IDF checkpoint south of Ramallah; no one was hurt.
A ready-for-launching mortar shell was found today in a home in the PA village of Al Majd, near Hevron. The homeowner was taken for questioning.
Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel last night included: The detonation of a large bomb aside a passenger bus on the Tunnels Highway - the bus was damaged, but no one was hurt; the \"light\" wounding of an Israeli by Arab gunmen; two mortar shells in Gush Katif; shooting near Sham\'a, south of Hevron. One terrorist was killed in an exchange of fire with IDF forces near the Shechem-area Balata neighborhood. Two attempted terrorist infiltrators were captured near Kibbuz Re\'im, 5 kilometers east of Gaza. A major attack was thwarted in Haifa yesterday when police arrested a Palestinian carrying a bag containing a Kalachnikov rifle and bullet clips; police said he was planning to carry out a terrorist attack.
Israel\'s response to the almost-massacre on the bus and the other attempted murders was in keeping with world expectations: IDF and police units briefly entered an Arab village, arrested three suspected terrorists, and left the area.
A ready-for-launching mortar shell was found today in a home in the PA village of Al Majd, near Hevron. The homeowner was taken for questioning.
Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel last night included: The detonation of a large bomb aside a passenger bus on the Tunnels Highway - the bus was damaged, but no one was hurt; the \"light\" wounding of an Israeli by Arab gunmen; two mortar shells in Gush Katif; shooting near Sham\'a, south of Hevron. One terrorist was killed in an exchange of fire with IDF forces near the Shechem-area Balata neighborhood. Two attempted terrorist infiltrators were captured near Kibbuz Re\'im, 5 kilometers east of Gaza. A major attack was thwarted in Haifa yesterday when police arrested a Palestinian carrying a bag containing a Kalachnikov rifle and bullet clips; police said he was planning to carry out a terrorist attack.
Israel\'s response to the almost-massacre on the bus and the other attempted murders was in keeping with world expectations: IDF and police units briefly entered an Arab village, arrested three suspected terrorists, and left the area.