Gaza
Israeli guards at the Gaza border caught two Palestinians trying to sneak into Israel disguised as Israeli police and laden with weaponry, the New York Post reported. Soldiers ordered the men to strip, and watched aghast as rifles, grenades, and bullet belts fell from their clothing. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said the arrest shows that Palestinian radicals are using the Gaza Strip as an entry point into Israel now that the West Bank is almost entirely under Israeli control. For two weeks, there were no suicide bombings, as soldiers in the West Bank detained more than 100 “most-wanted” terror suspects and found 14 bomb-making labs.
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