The high alert at IDF checkpoints throughout Judea, Samaria, and Gaza and the Green Line proved timely today, when a suspicious car was detected and stopped before its occupants had a chance to perpetrate an attack. The soldiers manning the Maccabim Checkpoint on Highway 443 near Modiin had been warned about this particular vehicle, and when it in fact arrived, the soldiers signaled the driver to stop. He did not do so, and the soldiers opened fire, wounding both occupants. A Border Guard policeman was also lightly hurt by the shots. On February 27, a female suicide bomber wounded three policemen at the same checkpoint. Tanzim head Marwan Barghouti yesterday called for PA residents to attack IDF checkpoints throughout Yesha.
In two other incidents this afternoon - one near Kalkilye, and one near Shechem - two suicide bombers wearing explosives packs were killed by alert soldiers. A third terrorist escaped.
Terrorist gunfire caused an Israeli driver to swerve into another car on the Jerusalem-Maaleh Adumim highway last night. The driver was lightly injured, although he was not hit by the shots. Arabs also shot at the IDF\'s Sa-Nur base in northern Shomron last night, as well as at Psagot north of Jerusalem and at an army checkpoint near Kalkilyeh east of Raanana. This morning, Arabs threw rocks at Israeli motorists on the Jerusalem-Maaleh Adumim highway; there were no injuries in these latter incidents. Arabs fired from a car at a home in western Beit El this evening while a gang of Palestinians threw rocks from the same direction; no one was hurt, and the army responded quickly.
The high alert at IDF checkpoints had the opposite effect in some other places, however. Passing Israeli motorists discovered to their horror that the checkpoints had been either moved or removed, or that the soldiers had been re-deployed to a spot high above the road. Arutz-7\'s Kobi Sela reported that Jewish motorists complained that the Arabs passing through could easily be transporting bombs and explosives. In at least one case, the residents themselves manned a spot until the soldiers returned.
In two other incidents this afternoon - one near Kalkilye, and one near Shechem - two suicide bombers wearing explosives packs were killed by alert soldiers. A third terrorist escaped.
Terrorist gunfire caused an Israeli driver to swerve into another car on the Jerusalem-Maaleh Adumim highway last night. The driver was lightly injured, although he was not hit by the shots. Arabs also shot at the IDF\'s Sa-Nur base in northern Shomron last night, as well as at Psagot north of Jerusalem and at an army checkpoint near Kalkilyeh east of Raanana. This morning, Arabs threw rocks at Israeli motorists on the Jerusalem-Maaleh Adumim highway; there were no injuries in these latter incidents. Arabs fired from a car at a home in western Beit El this evening while a gang of Palestinians threw rocks from the same direction; no one was hurt, and the army responded quickly.
The high alert at IDF checkpoints had the opposite effect in some other places, however. Passing Israeli motorists discovered to their horror that the checkpoints had been either moved or removed, or that the soldiers had been re-deployed to a spot high above the road. Arutz-7\'s Kobi Sela reported that Jewish motorists complained that the Arabs passing through could easily be transporting bombs and explosives. In at least one case, the residents themselves manned a spot until the soldiers returned.