IDF forces register important achievements in Hevron and elsewhere as Operation Determined Stand continues. Some 40 important wanted terrorists were ferreted out of their hiding places in PA headquarters in Hevron over the past two days, and ten more are assumed to still be there. The forces also found hundreds of explosives in the building; they also found over 100 in PA Intelligence offices in Hevron, including some of the type used against IDF forces in southern Lebanon. IDF sources say they were surprised to find such explosives in Hevron.
Heavy exchanges of fire were reported outside Arafat\'s Mukata complex in Ramallah. Arutz-7\'s Kobi Finkler notes that unlike in Operation Defensive Shield, where the army concentrated mainly on PA cities, \"the forces are now also going into many villages and refugee camps, looking for weapons caches and the like.\"
The IDF found yet another underground arms-smuggling tunnel between Israel and PA areas in Gaza today. The forces blew up the tunnel, which was dug 15 meters deep into the ground... Near Shechem, Israeli forces arrested a long-time wanted PFLP terrorist, Mahmoud Isa, who was involved in the suicide attack in the Netanya outdoor market, in which three people were murdered. He also planned the recent brutal attack that tore apart the Shabo family and took the life of Yossi Tuito... Five terrorists were apprehended in a village near Tul Karem... PA Arabs threw four explosives at Israeli forces near Shechem and Balata; no one was hurt and no damage was caused...
The British \"Foreign Report\" reports that the six terrorists arrested two days ago near Beit Shemesh were on their way to carry out a suicide attack in Zechariah. This is a community only three kilometers from a site in which Israel stores hundreds of Jericho missiles and nuclear bombs. The attack was thwarted thanks to sound intelligence information and a police search.
Heavy exchanges of fire were reported outside Arafat\'s Mukata complex in Ramallah. Arutz-7\'s Kobi Finkler notes that unlike in Operation Defensive Shield, where the army concentrated mainly on PA cities, \"the forces are now also going into many villages and refugee camps, looking for weapons caches and the like.\"
The IDF found yet another underground arms-smuggling tunnel between Israel and PA areas in Gaza today. The forces blew up the tunnel, which was dug 15 meters deep into the ground... Near Shechem, Israeli forces arrested a long-time wanted PFLP terrorist, Mahmoud Isa, who was involved in the suicide attack in the Netanya outdoor market, in which three people were murdered. He also planned the recent brutal attack that tore apart the Shabo family and took the life of Yossi Tuito... Five terrorists were apprehended in a village near Tul Karem... PA Arabs threw four explosives at Israeli forces near Shechem and Balata; no one was hurt and no damage was caused...
The British \"Foreign Report\" reports that the six terrorists arrested two days ago near Beit Shemesh were on their way to carry out a suicide attack in Zechariah. This is a community only three kilometers from a site in which Israel stores hundreds of Jericho missiles and nuclear bombs. The attack was thwarted thanks to sound intelligence information and a police search.