Because of the IDF offensive into Beit Jala, the nearby Tunnels Highway to Gush Etzion was closed all night. Efrat resident Ben Dansker took the alternative route and near Moshav Roglit, on the pre-1967 side of the Green Line, he was shot and wounded in his hand and leg by Palestinian terrorists. He is listed in moderate condition.



The night was replete with Arab shootings in various locations, including at Mt. Gerizim, near Rachel\'s Tomb, Dagan Hill in Efrat, Kibbutz Magal, and elsewhere. A roadside bomb was safely detonated north of Tapuach, causing a two-hour middle-of-the-night delay to a busload of passengers returning from a Bar Mitzvah in Yitzhar.