The Palestinian Authority (PA)

Events this week focused on the “package” of eased restrictions presented by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad . On the ground Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip was “routine” with the exception of a barrage of 22 rockets fired on Read more...

During the past week there was less rocket fire from the Gaza Strip than in previous weeks. Shootings, attacks involving Molotov cocktails and stone-throwing continued in Judea and Samaria. Ongoing talks between Hamas and Egypt as to the lull in the fighting and the operation of the Rafah Crossing have not yet born fruit. The Read more...

The most significant event of the past week was the killing of five Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist operatives, four of them from Bethlehem and one from the region of Jenin. The PIJ and other terrorist organizations escalated rocket attacks on Sderot and western Negev population centers following a few days of relative quiet. Read more...

On March 6, 2008, as the latest round of escalation from the Gaza Strip began to fade, two deadly terrorist attacks were carried out: in one, a mass-casualty attack in Jerusalem, a terrorist from East Jerusalem shot eight students to death at Yeshivat Mercaz Ha’Rav. In the other, which occurred near the security fence around Read more...