Israelis awoke this morning to news of yet another terrorist shooting attack, this time on a side road linking Psagot and Beit El, north of Jerusalem. An Israeli-Arab driver of a truck bringing bread from Jerusalem was lightly wounded in his leg and was taken to Hadassah Hospital for treatment. Sixteen grenades were thrown during the night at an IDF outpost along the Israeli-Egyptian border, near Rafiach. Grenade attacks in the area have become a commonplace occurrence. No one was hurt, and IDF soldiers returned fire.



Two armed terrorists were killed early this morning near the Bezek army base north of Jenin, in northern Shomron. A Golani brigade encountered a cell of five terrorists, and in the ensuing protracted battle, three Arabs escaped, leaving their two dead behind. There were no casualties on the Israeli side. Bombs were later discovered at the site of the battle, apparently planned to be laid near the Shomron communities of Ganim and Kadim.



An explosive device was detonated in the Shomron south of Jenin this afternoon against a convoy of IDF paratrooper cadets. No one on the three buses and one military vehicle carrying soldiers from Beit Lid Junction near Netanya to the Sa-Nur paratroopers base in the Shomron was hurt in the roadside bomb explosion.



For the second time in 24 hours, a bomb was discovered in the Jezre\'el Valley town of Ram-On, just over the Green Line near the northern Shomron. Both bombs were painstakingly and safely dismantled.