Despite, or because of, the above offensive, two more Kassam rockets were fired today towards Sderot - only several hundred meters from the nearest spot in Gaza. One rocket landed, without exploding, in the middle of the city's business district, and a few dozen people were able to claim that it landed right near them. Several of them suffered shock, and one woman was treated in Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital. The rocket came only a few hours after the Cabinet decided that Sderot, which had taken seven Kassam rockets - causing one injury - in the preceding days, would receive special front-line aid. The details are to be worked out by a government committee within two weeks.
Many other incidents of Palestinian terrorism and violence took place in Gaza and elsewhere today. An IDF force encountered a terrorist cell near Gadid, and shot and wounded them... Rocks at motorists traveling in the Southern Hevron Hills district... Rocks at soldiers patrolling PA-controlled Dehaishe near Bethlehem... Terrorist gunfire at workers on the local security fence in Gaza... More gunfire at soldiers near Rafiach Yam... An armored military vehicle was targeted and damaged in a bomb attack near Beit Hanoun... No injuries in these incidents... IDF forces found and safely neutralized explosive devices, including a vest used for suicide attacks, in southern Gush Katif and in Beit Hanoun...
Also in Gaza this morning, army troops found a terrorist's body near the Jewish community of Netzarim. This followed the firing by soldiers during the night at two "suspicious figures" trying to infiltrate into the community. It had been presumed that the Arabs were both hit and most likely killed, though there is no word yet on the second terrorist.
On Friday, the IDF lifted the limitations it had imposed on north-south movement in Gaza a couple of days earlier.
One of the recently arrested terrorists in Ramallah was Palestine Legislative Council member Ibrahim Abu Hilda, the local commander of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Many other incidents of Palestinian terrorism and violence took place in Gaza and elsewhere today. An IDF force encountered a terrorist cell near Gadid, and shot and wounded them... Rocks at motorists traveling in the Southern Hevron Hills district... Rocks at soldiers patrolling PA-controlled Dehaishe near Bethlehem... Terrorist gunfire at workers on the local security fence in Gaza... More gunfire at soldiers near Rafiach Yam... An armored military vehicle was targeted and damaged in a bomb attack near Beit Hanoun... No injuries in these incidents... IDF forces found and safely neutralized explosive devices, including a vest used for suicide attacks, in southern Gush Katif and in Beit Hanoun...
Also in Gaza this morning, army troops found a terrorist's body near the Jewish community of Netzarim. This followed the firing by soldiers during the night at two "suspicious figures" trying to infiltrate into the community. It had been presumed that the Arabs were both hit and most likely killed, though there is no word yet on the second terrorist.
On Friday, the IDF lifted the limitations it had imposed on north-south movement in Gaza a couple of days earlier.
One of the recently arrested terrorists in Ramallah was Palestine Legislative Council member Ibrahim Abu Hilda, the local commander of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.