The night in Gaza was one of warfare including mortar rockets, grenades and automatic weapons gunfire.
During the night, soldiers stationed in southern Gaza near the Rafiach Crossing to Egypt were attacked with 28 grenades and automatic weapons fire. Miraculously, there were no injuries. The southern Gaza community of Kfar Darom was awakened to early morning explosions, with two mortar rockets crashing into private homes in a pre-dawn attack. A 7-year-old girl was hit by shrapnel from the rocket that crashed into her home. Her physical condition is reported as light. About three hours later, four more rockets were fired at the Gaza community of Netzer-Hazani. There were no injuries in that attack.
In northern Gaza, soldiers entered into the PA autonomous area following a day of bombs and missile attacks against military and civilian targets on Sunday. The IDF force targeted positions used to launch terrorist attacks and then left the area.
In the Shomron, a bus driver was shot in a leg and lightly wounded in an early morning attack near Tapuach Junction. He was transported to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah. Security forces were attacked by gunfire near Jenin on Sunday night. During the night, five Fatah terrorists were killed in the Shomron while preparing a bomb. PA officials blame Israel for another liquidation but official sources in Israel deny any involvement.
In Yehuda, a bulletproof bus was attacked by terrorist gunfire on Sunday night on the Minharot (Tunnel) road. There were no injuries but the bus was damaged. As a result of the continuing attacks on the main vehicular artery connecting southern Jerusalem to the Gush Etzion bloc in Judea, authorities are already planning a bypass road to the bypass road, a move that is being decried by area leaders and residents who insist another road is not the answer.
Gush Etzion Regional Council leader Shaul Goldstein called upon the government to order the IDF to take the appropriate measures to restore law and order, insisting that the thought of another bypass road is beyond the absurd. It is noteworthy to point out that the Minharot (Tunnel) road is the most expensive bypass road constructed in Israel, permitting Jewish motorists to bypass Bethlehem, the biblical city of the Jewish people given away to the PA as part of the Oslo process by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In the capital, police remain on high alert in response to intelligence community warnings of additional impending terror attacks. On Sunday evening shortly after 5:00pm, a bomb exploded in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. The powerful device was intended to level a residential building containing 21 apartments but the bomb, which was placed in an underground parking lot, only partially exploded. Gas cylinders and grenades included in the bomb failed to detonate.
On Friday, a bus driver found a bomb inside a watermelon left on a Number 36 bus. The device was neutralized without incident.
Jerusalem Police Chief Mickey Levy confirmed reports that tensions are running high in Jerusalem as police continue working round-the-clock in the ongoing effort to thwart major terrorist attacks.
During the night, soldiers stationed in southern Gaza near the Rafiach Crossing to Egypt were attacked with 28 grenades and automatic weapons fire. Miraculously, there were no injuries. The southern Gaza community of Kfar Darom was awakened to early morning explosions, with two mortar rockets crashing into private homes in a pre-dawn attack. A 7-year-old girl was hit by shrapnel from the rocket that crashed into her home. Her physical condition is reported as light. About three hours later, four more rockets were fired at the Gaza community of Netzer-Hazani. There were no injuries in that attack.
In northern Gaza, soldiers entered into the PA autonomous area following a day of bombs and missile attacks against military and civilian targets on Sunday. The IDF force targeted positions used to launch terrorist attacks and then left the area.
In the Shomron, a bus driver was shot in a leg and lightly wounded in an early morning attack near Tapuach Junction. He was transported to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah. Security forces were attacked by gunfire near Jenin on Sunday night. During the night, five Fatah terrorists were killed in the Shomron while preparing a bomb. PA officials blame Israel for another liquidation but official sources in Israel deny any involvement.
In Yehuda, a bulletproof bus was attacked by terrorist gunfire on Sunday night on the Minharot (Tunnel) road. There were no injuries but the bus was damaged. As a result of the continuing attacks on the main vehicular artery connecting southern Jerusalem to the Gush Etzion bloc in Judea, authorities are already planning a bypass road to the bypass road, a move that is being decried by area leaders and residents who insist another road is not the answer.
Gush Etzion Regional Council leader Shaul Goldstein called upon the government to order the IDF to take the appropriate measures to restore law and order, insisting that the thought of another bypass road is beyond the absurd. It is noteworthy to point out that the Minharot (Tunnel) road is the most expensive bypass road constructed in Israel, permitting Jewish motorists to bypass Bethlehem, the biblical city of the Jewish people given away to the PA as part of the Oslo process by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In the capital, police remain on high alert in response to intelligence community warnings of additional impending terror attacks. On Sunday evening shortly after 5:00pm, a bomb exploded in the Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. The powerful device was intended to level a residential building containing 21 apartments but the bomb, which was placed in an underground parking lot, only partially exploded. Gas cylinders and grenades included in the bomb failed to detonate.
On Friday, a bus driver found a bomb inside a watermelon left on a Number 36 bus. The device was neutralized without incident.
Jerusalem Police Chief Mickey Levy confirmed reports that tensions are running high in Jerusalem as police continue working round-the-clock in the ongoing effort to thwart major terrorist attacks.