Also last night, a suicide-murder attack was thwarted when Nachshon Battalion soldiers west of Shechem shot to death a Palestinian terrorist carrying a large bomb on his back. The force had received an intelligence warning of a likely attempt by a suicide terrorist to leave Shechem and carry out an attack in a Jewish area. The soldiers in fact detected and fired at him, setting off the explosives and killing the terrorist on the spot. In the nearly two months that the IDF's Operation Wheels of Momentum has been in effect around Shechem, no terrorists have succeeded in passing through to the other side of the Green Line.