Kassam rockets fired from PA-controlled Gaza slammed into a field near a southern Israeli community early in the day. No injuries resulted and the IDF offered no response.
Later in the day, another barrage of rocket fire resulted in one rocket damaging a home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Miraculously, no injuries resulted, as the parents were visiting neighbors and the children had just entered the home as the rocket struck the front yard. Members of the predominately left-wing kibbutz were outraged that the Red Dawn early-warning system, installed by the government, failed to go off prior to the rockets' impact.
The IDF responded with 40 rounds of artillery fire toward some of the northern Gaza launch sites. Accompanying the artillery fire was a message to journalists that, "The IDF will respond harshly to all Palestinian rocket and shelling attacks on Israel." IDF officials admitted that there are orders not to "escalate" ahead of the PA elections in January. IDF top brass have told Knesset committees repeatedly in recent months that the planning of terror attacks and planting of bombs have continued and increased steadily since the Gaza withdrawal.
Monday afternoon an IDF officer was injured during an Arab riot in Beit Likia, west of Ramallah. The officer was hit in the face by a rock and evacuated from the scene and hospitalized.
Monday evening a bomb was thrown at IDF forces at the Beit Merkachat Junction in Hevron, near the Cave of the Patriarchs. No injuries were reported in the attack and IDF forces gave chase to the terrorist.
An Israeli motorist was targeted in a firebomb attack while traveling in Gush Etzion on Route 60 - north of Efrat, near el-Khader Junction. No injuries were reported.
Four firebombs were hurled at the Dor gas station on the main road connecting Jerusalem and Maale Adumim. No injuries were reported.
An Arab baby was lightly injured in a rock-throwing attack on the car she was in while traveling on the Jerusalem-Hevron highway. The attack took place near the village of Beit Omar, where there has been a recent rise in attacks against Jewish-owned vehicles.
Late Monday night, dozens of Arab terrorists imprisoned in the IDF's Ofer Prison facility rioted. Prison officials reported they brought the situation under control with 30 injuries to security personnel, mostly related to smoke inhalation. A number of prisoners were also injured.