Palestinian terrorists fired seven mortar shells at Jewish communities in Gaza this morning; no one was hurt. The number of mortar shells, Kassam, and other homemade rockets fired at Gush Katif in the past two years is around 2,000... Soldiers detected and neutralized a bomb near Kalkilye this morning... A police vehicle was targeted in a firebomb attack today in the tip of northern Jerusalem; no one was hurt, but the vehicle was damaged.



IDF soldiers successfully repelled a combined bomb-and-shooting attack against them in northern Gaza, south of Ashkelon, this morning. Two soldiers were lightly wounded by the aftershock of the bomb, while their colleagues discovered the Arab who detonated the bomb hiding nearby. He started shooting at them, they returned fire, and PA sources say he was killed. The incident occurred outside the Israeli community of Dugit. A similar bomb-and-shooting attack was perpetrated against soldiers in Jenin yesterday; no one was hurt.