An IDF force found and destroyed yet another arms-smuggling tunnel in southern Gaza last night. One of the commanding officers of the tunnels-searching unit said that the network of tunnels is the \"oxygen of the Palestinian Authority\'s entire system of war materials… Day and night, we are constantly engaged in searching for these tunnels, including going into houses; it could be that under the living room rug is an opening to a tunnel by which PA elements smuggle arms in from Egypt.\"
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, leader of the Labor Party, says that the only way to prevent the resumption of mass terrorist attacks is to keep the IDF in the Yesha cities for an extended period. He said last night that the IDF knows of car bombs being readied, as well as \"approximately 15 suicide bombers, and perhaps more, who are ready to perpetrate attacks in Israel.\"
A bomb was detonated as an Israeli bus drove over it this morning near Beit Haggai, south of Hevron. No one was hurt - only the driver was in the bus at the time - but much damage was caused to the vehicle. The bomb included a large amount of nails... A bomb went off last night between Efrat and Tekoa as an Israeli car passed by, wounding a soldier in the car. Large police and army forces arrived on the scene to comb the area... The curfew in Kalkilye and Tul Karem was removed today; it will be restored \"in accordance with developments.\" … A terrorist was killed last night in a clash with Israeli soldiers in the Gaza town of Dir el-Balah… Security forces caught some 15 wanted terrorists last night in various areas in Judea and Samaria, including four who admitted today to having been in the midst of preparations for a suicide attack...
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, leader of the Labor Party, says that the only way to prevent the resumption of mass terrorist attacks is to keep the IDF in the Yesha cities for an extended period. He said last night that the IDF knows of car bombs being readied, as well as \"approximately 15 suicide bombers, and perhaps more, who are ready to perpetrate attacks in Israel.\"
A bomb was detonated as an Israeli bus drove over it this morning near Beit Haggai, south of Hevron. No one was hurt - only the driver was in the bus at the time - but much damage was caused to the vehicle. The bomb included a large amount of nails... A bomb went off last night between Efrat and Tekoa as an Israeli car passed by, wounding a soldier in the car. Large police and army forces arrived on the scene to comb the area... The curfew in Kalkilye and Tul Karem was removed today; it will be restored \"in accordance with developments.\" … A terrorist was killed last night in a clash with Israeli soldiers in the Gaza town of Dir el-Balah… Security forces caught some 15 wanted terrorists last night in various areas in Judea and Samaria, including four who admitted today to having been in the midst of preparations for a suicide attack...