Palestinian Authority (PA) Interior Minister Nasser Youssef urged "immediate international intervention" to stop air raids, one of which killed Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist Majid Matat Friday night. Two missiles hit his car near Bet Hanoun in northern Gaza after he fired a Kassam rocket on Israel.
One rocket hit the Sderot area and a second struck Moshav Netiv Ha'Asara, south of Ashkelon. Terrorists also fired an anti-tank missile on IDF positions north of Gaza. No damage or injuries were reported.
PA spokesman Nabil Abu Rdaniah asked the United States to force Israel to "maintain the calm." He urged terrorists to halt attacks but did not refer to Hamas' announcement that it no longer is honoring the "calm," the name for the period since February's Sharm el-Sheikh accords. Terrorists have killed more than 15 Israelis in suicide bombings and shooting attacks and have fired hundreds of mortar shells and rockets on the western Negev during the period.
Vice Premier Shimon Peres, who said earlier this week that Israel cannot tolerate terrorist attacks, criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for calling off discussions with PA leaders.
"We must speak to Abu Mazen," Peres said "When you say there is no partner, then only one partner is left, the terrorists. This is a mistake of the first order."
The PA campaign against Israel was accompanied by renewed and limited promises to put an end to attacks. "We will deal firmly and seriously with any foundry or workshop that manufactures weapons or explosives, [but] we will not enter Palestinian houses to search for arms," Youssef declared.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit charged that Israel bore "the greater responsibility" for the violence.
IDF planes dropped leaflets appealing to Gaza area residents to inform Israeli authorities of terrorist attempts to launch rocket and missile attacks and to stay away from launching sites.
Reuters News Agency reported that Israel's retaliation "persisted despite what appeared to be a respite in rocket launchings on Saturday" and that "repeated sonic booms over Gaza City, sending terrified Palestinian civilians scurrying for cover several times a day."
Thousands of Arab mourners shouted "Death to Israel" during Friday's funeral in Gaza for Kassam rocket developer Shadi Mohanna, the Islamic Jihad terrorist killed in an IDF missile attack Thursday.
The PA continued to experience anarchic conditions, and its police used firearms to disperse an angry crowd of Islamic Jihad terrorist supporters who protested outside Abbas' Ramallah offices.
Arab terrorists tried to kill Israeli civilians and soldiers throughout the country, and security officials reported more than 40 specific warnings of attacks. Soldiers arrested a 16-year-old Arab woman at the Patriarchs Cave in Hevron after they discovered four knives in her possession. She said she planned to attack soldiers and civilians.
In Shechem, a car bomb exploded near a paratrooper unit, causing damage to two IDF vehicles but no injuries.
One rocket hit the Sderot area and a second struck Moshav Netiv Ha'Asara, south of Ashkelon. Terrorists also fired an anti-tank missile on IDF positions north of Gaza. No damage or injuries were reported.
PA spokesman Nabil Abu Rdaniah asked the United States to force Israel to "maintain the calm." He urged terrorists to halt attacks but did not refer to Hamas' announcement that it no longer is honoring the "calm," the name for the period since February's Sharm el-Sheikh accords. Terrorists have killed more than 15 Israelis in suicide bombings and shooting attacks and have fired hundreds of mortar shells and rockets on the western Negev during the period.
Vice Premier Shimon Peres, who said earlier this week that Israel cannot tolerate terrorist attacks, criticized Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for calling off discussions with PA leaders.
"We must speak to Abu Mazen," Peres said "When you say there is no partner, then only one partner is left, the terrorists. This is a mistake of the first order."
The PA campaign against Israel was accompanied by renewed and limited promises to put an end to attacks. "We will deal firmly and seriously with any foundry or workshop that manufactures weapons or explosives, [but] we will not enter Palestinian houses to search for arms," Youssef declared.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit charged that Israel bore "the greater responsibility" for the violence.
IDF planes dropped leaflets appealing to Gaza area residents to inform Israeli authorities of terrorist attempts to launch rocket and missile attacks and to stay away from launching sites.
Reuters News Agency reported that Israel's retaliation "persisted despite what appeared to be a respite in rocket launchings on Saturday" and that "repeated sonic booms over Gaza City, sending terrified Palestinian civilians scurrying for cover several times a day."
Thousands of Arab mourners shouted "Death to Israel" during Friday's funeral in Gaza for Kassam rocket developer Shadi Mohanna, the Islamic Jihad terrorist killed in an IDF missile attack Thursday.
The PA continued to experience anarchic conditions, and its police used firearms to disperse an angry crowd of Islamic Jihad terrorist supporters who protested outside Abbas' Ramallah offices.
Arab terrorists tried to kill Israeli civilians and soldiers throughout the country, and security officials reported more than 40 specific warnings of attacks. Soldiers arrested a 16-year-old Arab woman at the Patriarchs Cave in Hevron after they discovered four knives in her possession. She said she planned to attack soldiers and civilians.
In Shechem, a car bomb exploded near a paratrooper unit, causing damage to two IDF vehicles but no injuries.