In Dura, south of Hevron, IDF forces arrested a brother and an uncle of today's mass-murderer. The murderer's father praised his son today, saying, "Our religion says we are proud of him until the day of resurrection." Two other wanted Hamas members were caught near Shechem this afternoon when they were travelling in a car that was found to have two rifles and two magazines.
IDF troops operating in the PLO-controlled city of Kalkilye yesterday arrested Hamas terrorist Sheikh Samah. Samah masterminded the attack at Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium in June 2001 that killed 21 people, almost all of them Israeli teenagers. He also planned the suicide bombing outside Bar-Ilan University last month in which a Jewish woman was murdered.
In other IDF operations, troops entered several PLO-controlled villages in southern Gaza early this morning in search of wanted terrorists, and destroyed one terrorist home. Exchanges of gunfire between soldiers and PLO gunmen were reported. Last night the IDF destroyed the Balata home of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist Osama Adel Ahmed, who was behind a suicide bombing in Netanya last May that left three Israelis dead.
IDF troops operating in the PLO-controlled city of Kalkilye yesterday arrested Hamas terrorist Sheikh Samah. Samah masterminded the attack at Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium in June 2001 that killed 21 people, almost all of them Israeli teenagers. He also planned the suicide bombing outside Bar-Ilan University last month in which a Jewish woman was murdered.
In other IDF operations, troops entered several PLO-controlled villages in southern Gaza early this morning in search of wanted terrorists, and destroyed one terrorist home. Exchanges of gunfire between soldiers and PLO gunmen were reported. Last night the IDF destroyed the Balata home of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist Osama Adel Ahmed, who was behind a suicide bombing in Netanya last May that left three Israelis dead.