Violence increased last night on both sides of the Green Line. In addition to a stoning attack on an Egged bus along the Nachal Iron highway (near Um el-Fahm), four pipe bombs were discovered, one after the other, in Haifa last night and this morning. It took the police almost nine hours to safely dismantle them. Haifa resident Asher Gabbai recounted to Arutz-7, \"Around midnight, I was driving along, when suddenly large forces of police arrived and closed off the area. We were stuck for about an hour, then we saw a robot detonate the bomb, and we heard an explosion. We thought it was all over, but then suddenly, instead of letting us pass, more police and more robots came. Then they announced another bomb... then another one... Around 2:30 there was a terrible explosion...\" The fourth bomb was safely detonated this morning. It is assumed that terrorists placed the four bombs there sometime in the last few days.



Palestinian fire resumed this afternoon against N\'vei Dekalim and at the IDF outpost near Rafiach on the Israeli-Egyptian border. Israeli soldiers fired back after grenades were hurled at them in southern Gaza.



Other attacks since last night: Palestinian terrorists launched two mortar shells towards Gush Katif, threw two grenades at an IDF force near Rafiach, and shot at the industrial zone of N\'vei Dekalim. In the Shomron, there were two massive shooting attacks at Israeli cars; no one was hurt. An Israeli car was targeted in the Jordan Valley, near Migdalim; a bullet hit the car, but the driver was unhurt.



Hundreds of Arab rioters from Khan Yunis again stormed the gates of N\'vei Dekalim last night. IDF soldiers scattered them by shooting rubber bullets; the Palestinians claim a 12-year-old boy was killed. No less than 60 grenades were thrown at IDF soldiers near Rafiach, where the IDF is carrying out engineering and earthmoving works to prevent the Palestinians from building tunnels through which they smuggle arms and ammunition from Egypt.