The war against terrorism continues. IDF forces killed two Hamas terrorists in Tul Karem on Tuesday, including the deputy head of Hamas in the city. The successful operation was the culmination of a high alert declared in the area following intelligence reports of an imminent terrorist attack. The force spotted three armed terrorists and opened fire, killing one. Another force then pursued the two remaining terrorists, killing one and wounding the second. One of the dead was responsible for the murderous attack three weeks ago in Avnei Heifetz, in which Kobi Zaga was killed and his daughter wounded.
Also this week, Israel Police apprehended an independent three-man Arab terror cell responsible for last month's murder of Christian-Arab George Khoury - a murder that terror sources later admitted felled an Arab "by mistake." The terrorists also shot and wounded another northern Jerusalem man two weeks ago, in a crime that was originally thought to be a lovers' quarrel. In addition, the terrorists had attempted to kidnap and kill a member of the hareidi community by stopping at the busy Givat Sha'ul bus stop in the capital and offering rides. Fortuitously, however, none of the hareidi hitchhikers took them up on their offer.
A 16-year-old Arab girl was arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of having planned an attack against Israeli policemen. She aroused the suspicions of security forces, who checked and found a butcher's knife in her bag. The girl admitted to having planned a stabbing attack, because her brother and friends are imprisoned in Israel.
Among the terrorists recently arrested by IDF forces are some of the 20 whom Arafat evicted from his Mukata headquarters last week. One of them is Ali Barghouti - nephew of imprisoned Tanzim terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti and a senior Fatah al-Aqsa commander - who said last week that Arafat had "abandoned us." The terrorists had taken refuge in the Mukata with Arafat in the fairly certain knowledge that Israel would not bomb Arafat's headquarters - but at 3 AM last Thursday morning, Arafat suddenly told the 20 to get out immediately. His explanation: He had received word that the Israelis were about to target them.
Terrorists have perpetrated three attacks today on Israeli targets in Jewish Gaza, including gunfire at a bus near N'vei Dekalim; no one was hurt. Rock-throwing attacks have been reported in Hevron, with one injury, and on the Jerusalem-Modiin highway.
Also this week, Israel Police apprehended an independent three-man Arab terror cell responsible for last month's murder of Christian-Arab George Khoury - a murder that terror sources later admitted felled an Arab "by mistake." The terrorists also shot and wounded another northern Jerusalem man two weeks ago, in a crime that was originally thought to be a lovers' quarrel. In addition, the terrorists had attempted to kidnap and kill a member of the hareidi community by stopping at the busy Givat Sha'ul bus stop in the capital and offering rides. Fortuitously, however, none of the hareidi hitchhikers took them up on their offer.
A 16-year-old Arab girl was arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of having planned an attack against Israeli policemen. She aroused the suspicions of security forces, who checked and found a butcher's knife in her bag. The girl admitted to having planned a stabbing attack, because her brother and friends are imprisoned in Israel.
Among the terrorists recently arrested by IDF forces are some of the 20 whom Arafat evicted from his Mukata headquarters last week. One of them is Ali Barghouti - nephew of imprisoned Tanzim terrorist leader Marwan Barghouti and a senior Fatah al-Aqsa commander - who said last week that Arafat had "abandoned us." The terrorists had taken refuge in the Mukata with Arafat in the fairly certain knowledge that Israel would not bomb Arafat's headquarters - but at 3 AM last Thursday morning, Arafat suddenly told the 20 to get out immediately. His explanation: He had received word that the Israelis were about to target them.
Terrorists have perpetrated three attacks today on Israeli targets in Jewish Gaza, including gunfire at a bus near N'vei Dekalim; no one was hurt. Rock-throwing attacks have been reported in Hevron, with one injury, and on the Jerusalem-Modiin highway.