A week of quiet in Gilo ended last night when Palestinians once again directed fire at Jerusalem\'s southern neighborhood. Their target was a water tank being transported between two IDF outposts. Israel reacted with a strong barrage of fire at a house in Beit Jala.



Shots were fired early this evening at the Shdemah Base near Gush Etzion, causing the closing of the Tunnels Highway for a short while. Palestinians fired at Rachel\'s Tomb in Bethlehem last night, and a public bus on its way from Jerusalem to Beit El was attacked by stone-throwers between Hizme and Adam this morning. No one was hurt in the above incidents.



The industrial zone in N\'vei Dekalim was closed today, by army order, and no studies were held in the regional school in N\'vei Dekalim. The strike was called by the parents, in protest of the continued shooting on the school and the adjacent community center building. The army began to fence in the Hamawasi areas in Gush Katif this morning. It is suspected that the murderer of Kfar Yam resident Roni Tzalach five weeks ago came from among, or was helped by, the residents of the Hamawasi.



An explosive blew up this morning at the Sufa Checkpoint in Gaza not far from an IDF patrol, and a roadside bomb exploded near Netzarim during the night; no one was hurt. Palestinian terrorists threw a grenade at an IDF outpost near Rafiach; no one was hurt by the explosion.