The IDF last night arrested many wanted Arabs throughout Yesha - Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Troops brought to justice Nizal Sawiftah the head of the Islamic Jihad in Tubus, a village in the Shechem region. Also taken into custody was Assad Halvoni, a leading Hamas terrorist who had been operating in Shechem’s Casba, as well as an unidentified Arab woman, who was preparing to carry out a suicide attack. In addition, two arrests were made in Salfit, north of Ramallah, one in Bethlehem and two in Yatah, in the Hevron district.



The IDF has announced that thousands of army reservists will be called up for duty this week to take part in the Operation Determined Path anti-terror activities. Many of the forces will replace the soldiers currently operating in PLO-Controlled areas.



In other war news, an IDF force in Israel’s southern Mediterranean coastal area discovered a tunnel used by Arabs to smuggle weapons into PLO areas from Egypt… Arabs threw a firebomb at a car traveling near Ma’ale Levonah, north of Jerusalem last night. No injuries were reported.