Palestinian Terror Continues

CBNNews.com

December 2, 2007

CBNNews.com - GAZA STRIP - While Israeli and Palestinian officials prepare to renew peace negotiations, Palestinian terror attacks continue in Judea, Samaria (the West Bank) and the Gaza Strip.

On Friday, Palestinians in central Gaza fired an antitank missile at Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers patrolling along the security fence. No one was injured in the attack.

In two separate incidents, Palestinians fired five mortar shells from northern and central Gaza into Israel, while several Palestinian gunmen fired at an IDF patrol along the security border.

Arab Youths Transport Bombs

At the Hawara checkpoint south of the PA-controlled city of Nablus (biblical Shechem), IDF troops stopped two Palestinian teenagers attempting to transport three bombs into Israel.

Sappers detonated the bombs in a controlled explosion, and the youths were detained for questioning.

A Molotov cocktail and rocks damaged a car driven by an Israeli, but no one was injured in the attack.

IAF Responds with Air Strikes

Early Saturday morning, an Israeli air strike targeted a night patrol, killing five Hamas operatives and wounding eight members of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a smaller terror group, on the outskirts of Khan Younis in southern Gaza near the border with Israel.

In a separate incident in central Gaza, IDF soldiers opened fired on Palestinian gunmen near the border, killing one man and wounding three others.

The IDF's counter-terror operations target Palestinians launching rockets and mortar shells into Israel.

Last month, Israel reduced fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip an effort to thwart the daily rocket barrage, but the High Court postponed a planned reduction of electricity over the weekend, also aimed at ending rocket and mortar shell attacks from Gaza.

Sources: Haaretz, YNet news service

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