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The Israeli occupation forces blockaded overnight Tuesday all Palestinian cities in the West Bank and tightened a full closure. The Gaza Strip was also cut into four sections, reports said. Meanwhile, the Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz approved the call-up of reservists to the West Bank and Gaza Strip to beef up security priority during the Jewish Sukkot holiday, which starts Friday night, Israeli sources said. Mofaz said on Wednesday that the extra troops were needed to help monitor the border crossings between Israel and the Palestinian areas following information showing that the suicide bomber behind Saturday's attack on a Haifa restaurant in which 19 people died crossed into Israel in a car with Israeli yellow license plates at one of the border crossings. Israeli sources were quoted in the local media as saying the army has information about five separate cells in the West Bank trying to dispatch suicide bombers into Israel. Three are in Nablus and two in Jenin.
| "Step right up, folks! Getcher suicide vests right here! Y'can't be a real Paleostinian without a suicide vest! We got large, we got small, we got teeny-weeny vests for the kiddies...!" |
Elsewhere, the Israeli forces arrested Tuesday overnight a Palestinian after incurring the city of Rammallah, Palestinian sources said. Eyewitnesses said that an Israeli undercover commando unit broke in abruptly Rukab Street and the area close to the chamber of commerce, in the heart of the city and detained Jameel Saleh Ankoush, 25 aged.
| "Hi, Jameel! We're from the IDF. Stick 'em up!" |
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