Several Palestinian terrorist attacks of various levels of danger were thwarted over the weekend. An IDF force killed two terrorists from Egypt who tried to infiltrate this morning into Moshav Yevul, a small town just east of the Israeli-Egyptian border in the western Negev. Two soldiers were wounded in the shootout, one "lightly" and one in "light-to-moderate" condition. The incident occurred around 5:30 this morning in an area that has been quiet for many years now. Brig.-Gen. Yisrael Ziv, IDF commander in Gaza, said that the attempt should serve as a "red light warning." Israeli soldiers blew up two more arms-smuggling tunnels leading from Egypt into Rafiach over the night.
The dramatic saves of the past few days - outside Bar Ilan University on Thursday, Friday night in Tel Aviv (see below), near Moshav Yevul this morning - have out-shadowed the many other Palestinian terrorist attempts that continue almost unabated:
* In Gaza this afternoon, a mortar shell landed inside a house in a Jewish community. No one was hurt, but the home sustained considerable damage.
* A bomb exploded in Shechem near an IDF tank. It caused no damage to the tank, but knocked out electricity in most of the city.
* Arabs fired at a Border Guard patrol near Jenin, at an IDF force in the Jordan Valley, and at an army outpost near N'vei Dekalim; no one was hurt.
The capture of over 70 terrorists on Thursday night was one of the largest anti-terrorist preventative operations against Hamas in history. Over 55 wanted terrorists were captured in 23 villages in the Ramallah region alone, between the Shilo-Eli bloc and south of Ariel. Army sources said that the nightlong operation dealt a major blow to Hamas' ability to carry out attacks in Judea and Samaria for a while to come.
The dramatic saves of the past few days - outside Bar Ilan University on Thursday, Friday night in Tel Aviv (see below), near Moshav Yevul this morning - have out-shadowed the many other Palestinian terrorist attempts that continue almost unabated:
* In Gaza this afternoon, a mortar shell landed inside a house in a Jewish community. No one was hurt, but the home sustained considerable damage.
* A bomb exploded in Shechem near an IDF tank. It caused no damage to the tank, but knocked out electricity in most of the city.
* Arabs fired at a Border Guard patrol near Jenin, at an IDF force in the Jordan Valley, and at an army outpost near N'vei Dekalim; no one was hurt.
The capture of over 70 terrorists on Thursday night was one of the largest anti-terrorist preventative operations against Hamas in history. Over 55 wanted terrorists were captured in 23 villages in the Ramallah region alone, between the Shilo-Eli bloc and south of Ariel. Army sources said that the nightlong operation dealt a major blow to Hamas' ability to carry out attacks in Judea and Samaria for a while to come.