One today, one earlier this weekend.
No big surprise, what with a terrorist organization now openly running the PA, as opposed to the one that was only a terrorist organization when it wasn’t speaking to the non-Arab world.
And the IDF is declaring a new terror wave in effect.
In the afternoon, a 17-year-old Palestinian was caught at the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus in possession of a 2-kilogram pipe bomb. Sappers destroyed the bomb in a controlled explosion and the youth was transferred to the Shin Bet for interrogation. Head of the Ha’amakim Region Asst.-Cmdr. Yaacov Zigdon denied any connection between the two incidents. Shots were also fired late Sunday at an Israel car traveling near Nablus. No one was injured in the attack.
While the Nazareth District slapped a gag order on the investigation, security officials said that Islamic Jihad as well as the Fatah’s Aksa Martyrs Brigades had recently escalated their terror activity and were doing all they could to perpetrate large-scale attacks against Israeli targets.
Meanwhile Sunday, the army raided Palestinian cities throughout the West Bank in search of terror suspects and maintained a complete closure on Nablus, Tulkarm and Jenin imposed over the weekend in response to the suicide attack near Kedumim which killed four Israelis.
Terror groups, a Central Command source said, have increased their efforts to carry out attacks by over 50 percent in the last month alone. On Sunday, the Shin Bet recorded 76 terror threats including 10 concrete alerts. To curb the new wave, the officer said, the army was operating “unrestrained” in Palestinian cities and had stepped up its arrest operations to prevent additional attacks.
“There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a new terror wave,” the officer said. “We have stepped up our arrest raids and have tightened the inspections at the checkpoints to prevent terror infiltrations.”
Meanwhile, Saab Erekat and Mahmoud Abbas keep on yapping about how Israel needs to sit down and discuss “final status” negotiations with the palestinians.
Why?
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Looks like Fatah is trying to win back the hearts and minds of the Hamas supporters.