Defense sources report that there are no signs that PA chief Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is taking any actions against terrorism. In the course of the past month, Israel has arrested 20 suicide terrorists - including one yesterday - before they could carry out their murderous crimes. Ten of them were caught after the Aqaba summit. Israeli security elements are dealing today with 55 terrorist warnings around the country - half of them from Hamas, which is hankering to retaliate against yesterday's attempted assassination of terrorist leader Abdel Rantisi. Police in Wadi Ara (Nachal I'ron, between Hadera and Afula) and in the Netanya region have been on high alert all day.
In Gaza and the Shomron, the intense Palestinian violence of this morning continued this afternoon with a terrorist bomb against a passenger bus near Gush Katif; no one was hurt. Another bomb was found earlier in the same area, and Arabs fired at an IDF position near Ganei Tal. A mortar shell was found, unexploded, on the roof of a home in Kfar Darom; no one was hurt. In the Shomron, there were at least two incidents of Arab gunfire at Israeli targets; no one was hurt.
This morning saw several Kassam shells fired at Sderot and environs, and Palestinian shooting at soldiers in Gush Katif was the name of the game for most of the night. Close to ten anti-tank missiles were fired and over 25 grenades were hurled at the Israelis. At least two people were treated for shock in Gush Katif, and the shells in Sderot caused some damage. Yesterday's shelling in Sderot sent 8 people to the hospital to be treated for shock.
News of a shocking terrorist murder a month ago was revealed today. An Israeli-Arab from Kfar Kassem, outside Rosh HaAyin, has admitted murdering his girlfriend, 26-year-old Tali Weinberg. Her mutilated body was found on May 4, and police originally said that the crime occurred on a criminal or romantic background. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that the Arab, who lived with Weinberg in a room in a garage, reenacted the crime, saying he murdered her in order to prove to the terrorist organizations that he can meet their standards. He was caught last night by Shabak agents in Jericho, and was ordered remanded for ten days.
Matan Gadari, the soldier who was killed in a firefight with terrorists in Hevron on Sunday, was buried in his hometown of Moledet late this afternoon. His sister arrived this morning from South America.
In Gaza and the Shomron, the intense Palestinian violence of this morning continued this afternoon with a terrorist bomb against a passenger bus near Gush Katif; no one was hurt. Another bomb was found earlier in the same area, and Arabs fired at an IDF position near Ganei Tal. A mortar shell was found, unexploded, on the roof of a home in Kfar Darom; no one was hurt. In the Shomron, there were at least two incidents of Arab gunfire at Israeli targets; no one was hurt.
This morning saw several Kassam shells fired at Sderot and environs, and Palestinian shooting at soldiers in Gush Katif was the name of the game for most of the night. Close to ten anti-tank missiles were fired and over 25 grenades were hurled at the Israelis. At least two people were treated for shock in Gush Katif, and the shells in Sderot caused some damage. Yesterday's shelling in Sderot sent 8 people to the hospital to be treated for shock.
News of a shocking terrorist murder a month ago was revealed today. An Israeli-Arab from Kfar Kassem, outside Rosh HaAyin, has admitted murdering his girlfriend, 26-year-old Tali Weinberg. Her mutilated body was found on May 4, and police originally said that the crime occurred on a criminal or romantic background. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that the Arab, who lived with Weinberg in a room in a garage, reenacted the crime, saying he murdered her in order to prove to the terrorist organizations that he can meet their standards. He was caught last night by Shabak agents in Jericho, and was ordered remanded for ten days.
Matan Gadari, the soldier who was killed in a firefight with terrorists in Hevron on Sunday, was buried in his hometown of Moledet late this afternoon. His sister arrived this morning from South America.