The seemingly endless supply of Palestinian suicide terrorists was tapped once again today, but this time with no casualties. Border Guard policemen north of Kibbutz Bachan and Tul Karem detected the would-be murderer and called to him to stop; he then detonated his bomb, killing only himself and causing light damage to a police jeep. The terrorist had been on Israel\'s wanted list.



IDF forces operating near Jenin today discovered and safely detonated a car bomb. Armored forces and helicopters provided cover for the infantry who were carrying out a wide-ranging mission in the Yamun village... The army also conducted an offensive in Tul Karem and environs today, searching for five suicide terrorists about whom they had received intelligence warnings... A mortar shell exploded this morning near a populated area in Gaza. No one was hurt, but damage was caused...



The Jerusalem District Court sentenced an Israeli-Arab terrorist to 18 years in prison today. The convict, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization, attempted two attacks in Jerusalem - one involving a booby-trapped watermelon on a bus and the other in a restaurant - but neither succeeded.