As the ninth month of the Palestinian \"Oslo War\" against Israel draws to a close, Arab violence is once again on the rise. Two more mortar shells were fired this morning at N\'vei Dekalim, along the southern Mediterranean coast, while a Palestinian sniper in nearby Khan Yunis shot at a bus driver and a fire truck driver; he missed both. The sniper sat for hours in one of the top floors of a tall building, and the IDF did not fire back at him. Also in Gaza, shots were fired at the Yakinton outpost, three grenades were launched at a Rafiach post, and a bomb went off as an IDF force passed by; no one was hurt.



There were two more attempts to kill Israeli citizens in the Shomron this afternoon: One motorist was attacked by snipers lying in ambush between Einav and Shavei Shomron, and another car was shot at on the southern Shechem bypass road. Also this afternoon, seven Molotov cocktails were hurled at an IDF position in Hevron; IDF soldiers responded with shots in the air.



South of Hevron, hundreds of Arabs rioted and threw rocks and firebombs at IDF soldiers this morning, while rocks were also thrown at an outpost north of Bethlehem. Palestinians fired at an Israeli woman near Nili, north of Modi\'in, as well as at an outpost south of Ofrah. In the Shomron, terrorists threw firebombs near Yakir, and the IDF imposed a curfew on the nearby Arab village; at least three other incidents took place in the Shomron.