IDF forces continue to surround the PA headquarters building in Hevron and the 15 wanted terrorists holed up inside. Combat helicopters fired around the building late this morning and this afternoon. The commander of the forces at the site, Lt.-Col. David Blumenfeld, said that electronic means are being used to see inside the building, and that family members of the terrorists have been brought to the area to convince them to give themselves up. \"Time is on our side,\" he said, as unlike the previous sieges in the Church of the Nativity and the Mukata in Ramallah, no one other than the wanted terrorists are holed up inside and no diplomatic pressure is being brought to bear on Israel.



Over 40 wanted fugitives have been arrested during the current offensive, including five last night. One of those caught in Hevron was a senior Hizbullah terrorist; word of his arrest has been given to the U.S. Army forces were also surprised to find yesterday, among the hundreds of explosives in PA buildings, some of the type used in southern Lebanon against our forces.



Naval commando fighters arrested a senior leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist organization in a cave near Shechem. He was responsible for dispatching the terrorist cell last week that murdered five people, including a mother and three children.



A mortar shell penetrated a home in a northern Gaza community last night; no one was hurt.