Zionist occupation forces today advanced into the northern areas of the Gaza Strip and closed down the main Salahuddin road connecting northern to southern Gaza. Eyewitnesses reported that invasion troops backed by an army tank escorted two tractors into that road and blocked Palestinian traffic. The sources said that the tractors were leveling vast areas and wreaking havoc in the vicinity of the industrial area near Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing. Soldiers were searching all citizens trying to cross the Matahen and Abu Hawli roadblocks on that road further south.Sources reported that the occupation soldiers arrested Raed Timraz, a member of the PA security apparatus known as Force-17. Meanwhile, Zionist authorities declared that the army would resume incursions into Palestinian cities and villages in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Hebrew daily 'Yediot Ahronot' said on its website that the war minister Shaul Mofaz told the weekly cabinet session that the PA presidential election was over and thus the army would resume military campaigns into those areas. Occupation forces arrested 36 Palestinians in different areas in the Nablus district at the pretext of affiliation with resistance factions.