The IDF arrested three Arab suicide bombers last night, successfully preventing still more PLO devastation in Israel. One of the three was arrested in Kalkilyeh, and the other two in Tul Karem - PLO-controlled cities located adjacent to Israel's densely populated coastal plain; they were ceded to the Palestinian Authority by the Rabin government under the Oslo Accords. The three were planning their attacks in the coming days. Nineteen other terrorist suspects were also arrested in Yesha last night.
Two terrorist attacks-in-progress were thwarted in Gaza last night. An armed terrorist climbing a ladder over the perimeter fence of a Gush Katif community opened fire at IDF soldiers, who returned fire and wounded the terrorist. He surrendered and was taken for interrogation. The soldiers found a Kalachnikov rifle, four grenades, and four spare magazines in his possession. Near the Jewish community of Slav (Hebrew for "quail," food miraculously provided to the Israelites following the exodus from Egypt, as recounted in Numbers 11), on Israel's most southwestern corner, IDF soldiers spotted a suspicious figure approaching the town; they opened fire and struck him. Also last night, a bomb exploded harmlessly on the road running parallel to the security fence surrounding the Gaza district.
IDF forces demolished the homes of two Arab terrorists last night and today. One belonged to the female terrorist who, by blowing herself up, murdered six people in Jerusalem's Machaneh Yehuda neighborhood in a Sabbath-eve attack last April. The second house belonged to the Hamas terrorist who infiltrated a Jordan Valley training base and shot and killed IDF soldier Tal Tzemach last March. The terrorists lived, respectively, in Beit Fajar, in the Hevron area, and in Kabatia, near Jenin - both of which were among the areas ceded to PLO administrative control under the Oslo Accords.
Two terrorist attacks-in-progress were thwarted in Gaza last night. An armed terrorist climbing a ladder over the perimeter fence of a Gush Katif community opened fire at IDF soldiers, who returned fire and wounded the terrorist. He surrendered and was taken for interrogation. The soldiers found a Kalachnikov rifle, four grenades, and four spare magazines in his possession. Near the Jewish community of Slav (Hebrew for "quail," food miraculously provided to the Israelites following the exodus from Egypt, as recounted in Numbers 11), on Israel's most southwestern corner, IDF soldiers spotted a suspicious figure approaching the town; they opened fire and struck him. Also last night, a bomb exploded harmlessly on the road running parallel to the security fence surrounding the Gaza district.
IDF forces demolished the homes of two Arab terrorists last night and today. One belonged to the female terrorist who, by blowing herself up, murdered six people in Jerusalem's Machaneh Yehuda neighborhood in a Sabbath-eve attack last April. The second house belonged to the Hamas terrorist who infiltrated a Jordan Valley training base and shot and killed IDF soldier Tal Tzemach last March. The terrorists lived, respectively, in Beit Fajar, in the Hevron area, and in Kabatia, near Jenin - both of which were among the areas ceded to PLO administrative control under the Oslo Accords.