Good thing these palestinians are such idiots, they continue to blow themselves up on their way to murder innocents:
Sunday, November 11, 2001 Cheshvan 25, 5762 Israel Time: 00:33 (GMT+2)
12:59 09/11/2001 Last update - 18:55 10/11/2001
Palestinian hurt planting explosive device; IDF enters Area A
By Baruch Kra, Ha'aretz Correspondent, and agencies
Hadas Abutbul: Killed by Tanzim gunmen on Friday.
A Palestinian man was wounded Saturday afternoon in the Gaza Strip when an explosive device he was planting on the road leading to the settlement of Neve Dekalim exploded. He was taken to Be'er Sheva's Soroka Medical Center.
In a separate incident Saturday afternoon, two anti-tank grenades were thrown at the Gaza Strip settlement of Gadid. No injuries were reported.
The Israel Defense Forces entered Palestinian-controlled Area A in the early hours of Saturday morning and carried out an operation in the West Bank village of Arakeh, next to the city of Jenin.
IDF troops demolished the house of Nader Mohammed Hamdar, a Fatah activist who carried out a shooting attack in the Afula bus station approximately one month ago. Hamdar killed a soldier and two civilians, and wounded several others before being shot and killed by policemen.
The IDF also arrested 12 Palestinans on suspicion of taking part in terrorist activities and leveled two other houses. Palestinian sources said that among those arrested were a police officer and a Palestinian intelligence official. One person was wounded when his house was leveled. The army said that following the Friday attack on an Israeli woman, Hadas Abutbul, all leads that it had pointed to the village.
In addition, Palestinian sources reported that the IDF had entered 300 meters into PA-controlled territory near Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip.
Abutbul, 39, was killed when gunmen fired on her car as she was driving past the village of Yabed. She was returning to her home in the Mevo Dotan settlement from her workplace in the Shaked settlement. Abutbul was hit in the back, and her vehicle then plunged into a wadi on the side of the road.
Abutbul was a mother of four children, including a one-year-old baby.
The Tanzim militia, which is linked to Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization, took responsibility for the attack. In a pamphlet released in Jenin, the organization said the attack was to avenge the killing of two Fatah militants by Israel earlier in the week.
The IDF carried out searches in the area, but it is believed that the attackers fled into Palestinian-controlled territory.
Early Friday evening, two mortars fired from the Gaza Strip landed inside Israel, reported Israel Radio. Another mortar was fired later and landed in the central Gush Katif bloc of settlements in the Gaza Strip. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Palestinian killed in Gaza Strip
IDF soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man, Samir Abu Halib, 37, who was walking in a field near an army post east of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian security officials said Friday.
Relatives said the man was mentally disabled and deaf, and that he had not provoked the soldiers in any way.
An IDF spokeswoman said the soldiers had shouted at Abu Halib to stop in Arabic and Hebrew as he approached the checkpoint, and had fired warning shots in the air. Only when he was 10 meters from the outpost did they fire at his legs, in accordance with army procedure.
The wounded man was immediately treated by an army medic and was transferred to hospital in moderate condition, she said.
Palestinian security sources also said that the soldiers contacted the Palestinian authority and asked them to send an ambulance to take his body.
Alert continues in south
Police in the south continued a manhunt Friday for four Palestinians who were smuggled into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday. Police believe that one of the men may be in Be'er Sheva and the other three in the Lahish region.
Be'er Sheva Magistrate's Court extended Friday the remand of an Israeli man suspected of smuggling the four Palestinians into Israel. His remand was extended for ten days.
Police said that the 50-year-old resident of Moshav Shuva, near the southern town of Netivot, helped the infiltrators enter the country. The man admitted to receiving NIS 2,000 to drive them into Israel.
The security services have set up roadblocks in order to apprehend the four Palestinians.
Several local communities decided to move their children into secure locations in order to prevent them being kidnapped by the infiltrators.
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