The army continued taking measures to prevent another murder by Bedouin Arabs in the Southern Hevron Hill area today. IDF bulldozers again knocked down temporary Bedouin buildings between Yata and Susia, where Ya\'ir Har-Sinai was killed three days ago. The Arab villages in the vicinity are under army closure. In a joint army-police operation last night in Area B (Israeli security control), four Arabs from the Shomron village of Marda were arrested in connection with placing bombs, as well as shooting and firebomb attacks at Israeli cars.
Palestinian fire was directed this morning at the Yesha town of Psagot, adjacent to Ramallah and north of Jerusalem. Psagot was the target of non-stop shooting for several weeks a few months ago; after a period of quiet, shooting has once again resumed with several incidents in the past week... Over 50 hand grenades were thrown onto an IDF outpost on the Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafiach during the night. A bomb was also planted there this morning; it exploded with no casualties... Gaza Arabs also fired a mortar shell into Netzarim last night, while in Judea, Arabs fired at an army jeep. No one was hurt.
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, meeting this afternoon with Kibbutz Movement leaders in Tel Aviv, said that 20 suicide bombers are ready and waiting to be dispatched by Palestinian terrorist organizations. He also said that the Palestinians send children out to place bombs, and accused a Hamas man of murdering a 12-year-old boy just so he could blame the Israelis for the act.
Palestinian fire was directed this morning at the Yesha town of Psagot, adjacent to Ramallah and north of Jerusalem. Psagot was the target of non-stop shooting for several weeks a few months ago; after a period of quiet, shooting has once again resumed with several incidents in the past week... Over 50 hand grenades were thrown onto an IDF outpost on the Israeli-Egyptian border near Rafiach during the night. A bomb was also planted there this morning; it exploded with no casualties... Gaza Arabs also fired a mortar shell into Netzarim last night, while in Judea, Arabs fired at an army jeep. No one was hurt.
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, meeting this afternoon with Kibbutz Movement leaders in Tel Aviv, said that 20 suicide bombers are ready and waiting to be dispatched by Palestinian terrorist organizations. He also said that the Palestinians send children out to place bombs, and accused a Hamas man of murdering a 12-year-old boy just so he could blame the Israelis for the act.