The General Security Service announced this morning that its intensive efforts to prevent a feared terrorist attack in the Haifa region at the end of last week paid off. Two Islamic Jihad terrorists from the northern Shomron city of Jenin - which has recently become known as \"suicide center\" for the many suicide killers it has dispatched - were apprehended by the GSS on Thursday. They were armed with a ten-kilogram (22-lb.) pack of explosives and nails, with which they planned to target a discotheque in Haifa late Thursday night. The bomb that killed 21 people in the Dolphinarium Disco in Tel Aviv on June 1 was considerably smaller than the one planned for use in Haifa. The army encircled two Arab villages in the Jenin area this afternoon, after combing the areas thoroughly and making several arrests.
Two people were wounded in last night\'s shooting attack upon a Jerusalem bus. Arabs shot as it was traveling northwards from Pisgat Ze\'ev to N\'vei Yaakov. Ruth Shapira, 6, and soldier Andrew Faibish, 20, remain hospitalized in light-to-moderate condition in Hadassah Hospital at Mt. Scopus.
Israeli forces retaliated strongly this morning against Palestinian fire upon an IDF position near Ramallah. The soldiers fired tank shells towards the source of the shooting and at a Force 17 command post, totally destroying it. Other Palestinian violence today included:
* six grenades at an IDF patrol near Rafiach; Israeli soldiers returned fire.
* shooting at a Border Guard jeep south of Tul Karem - soldiers returned fire - and at IDF forces in the Shomron and in N\'vei Dekalim;
* a bombing attack against a bus transporting soldiers to the IDF’s Sa-Nur base in the Shomron; no one was hurt.
Two people were wounded in last night\'s shooting attack upon a Jerusalem bus. Arabs shot as it was traveling northwards from Pisgat Ze\'ev to N\'vei Yaakov. Ruth Shapira, 6, and soldier Andrew Faibish, 20, remain hospitalized in light-to-moderate condition in Hadassah Hospital at Mt. Scopus.
Israeli forces retaliated strongly this morning against Palestinian fire upon an IDF position near Ramallah. The soldiers fired tank shells towards the source of the shooting and at a Force 17 command post, totally destroying it. Other Palestinian violence today included:
* six grenades at an IDF patrol near Rafiach; Israeli soldiers returned fire.
* shooting at a Border Guard jeep south of Tul Karem - soldiers returned fire - and at IDF forces in the Shomron and in N\'vei Dekalim;
* a bombing attack against a bus transporting soldiers to the IDF’s Sa-Nur base in the Shomron; no one was hurt.