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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF bags 3 Paleostinians
2005-11-07
Israel Defense Forces soldiers arrested three wanted Palestinians in the West Bank before dawn on Monday, Israel Radio reported. Soldiers arrested two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. One arrest raid was made in the village of Beit Furik, south of Nablus, and the second was carried out in the village of Dura, located southeast of Hebron in the southern West Bank. An Islamic Jihad operative was also arrested southwest of Nablus.

In a separate incident, Palestinians opened fire on IDF troops operating in Jenin overnight, the radio reported. There were no casualties and no damage was caused by the light arms fire.

Two Palestinians were wounded Sunday when a Qassam rocket aimed at Israel mistakenly hit a house in the Gaza Strip town of Dir al-Balah.
One of the wounded was a Palestinian police officer who lived in the house.
Proving once again, Allen has a sense of humor
Military sources said that over the past two weeks, since the targeted killing of Luay Saadi, head of the Islamic Jihad's military wing in the area, some 40 Qassam rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel. However only seven or eight landed within the Green Line, a much smaller number than before disengagement and withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Sources in the IDF ascribe the low rate of Qassam attacks over the past two weeks to the army's creation of "buffer zones" by artillery action which, though aimed at open fields, has distanced launchings from the border with Israel and resulted in inaccurate aims.
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