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Palestinian teen tries to stab IDF soldier at West Bank checkpoint
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent and Haaretz Service
Tags: attack, IDF, terror 

A Palestinian youth, aged 17, tried to stab one of the Israel Defense Forces soldiers stationed at the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank on Wednesday.

The troops manning the checkpoint, located south of Nablus, successfully subdued the Palestinian teen, confiscated the knife and took him in for questioning. No one was hurt in the incident.

Earlier Wednesday, an Israeli civilian was lightly wounded, Army Radio reported, when Palestinians hurled rocks at his car on route 443, which runs from Jerusalem to Modi'in. The man was driving a minibus used for the transport of handicapped children.
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Also Wednesday, the IDF and the Shin Bet security service arrested Sami salid Rashid Zayud, an Islamic Jihad militant who planned a mass terror attack on a residential building in central Israel five years ago.
Zayud was arrested in the village of Silat Al Harithiya, southwest of Jenin.

Zayud reportedly planned to detonate a car laden with 400kg of explosives next to a residential building. The plot was foiled when the vehicle was stopped at a Border Police checkpoint near Givat Ada. According to security assessments, the militant came from the area of Jenin and infiltrated into Israel in the Wadi Ara region.

During the operation Wednesday, IDF forces fired and identified hitting Zayud. He was taken to hospital for medical treatment.

Meanwhile Wednesday, Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a Qassam rocket toward Israel that struck within Palestinian territory. Seven Qassam rockets struck Israel on Tuesday.

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      1.   Remove the check points = No problems 21:03  |  POP 19/12/07
      2.   Oh POP. When CHECKPOINTS didn`t exist, terrorists had free access 21:30  |  Vittorio 19/12/07
      3.   Checkpoints are VERY necessary 21:37  |  JB 19/12/07
      4.   "JEWS ONLY" Roads are not enough? 21:53  |  POP 19/12/07
      5.   Meretz and Europeans demand his immediate release 22:04  |  Binyamin Dissen 19/12/07
      6.   Justification!!! 00:36  |  Adrian de Klerk 20/12/07
      7.   Is Hamas providing info to IDF on Islamic Jihad? 01:07  |  Voice of Reason 20/12/07
      8.   #6 Adrian de Klerk: use violation! censure? 02:36  |  muslim 20/12/07
      9.   #1 POP goes the weasel 03:12  |  * BEN JABO 20/12/07
      10.   #7 voice of reason - you could very well be correct 03:16  |  * BEN JABO 20/12/07
      11.   Take the checkpoints & the settlements out of the West Bank... 04:35  |  Silvienne 20/12/07
      12.   Route 443 04:45  |  William 20/12/07
      13.   Pop - ceaseless bigotry and bias. 04:47  |  Steve 20/12/07
      14.   #7 - If Hamas gave you info, would you trust it? 04:49  |  Steve 20/12/07
      15.   checkpoints where NECESSARY 05:34  |  Space 20/12/07
      16.   #11 Silvienne 10:48  |  Adrian de Klerk 20/12/07
      17.   #11 Silvienne - Very profound recommendations 16:46  |  * BEN JABO 20/12/07
      18.   #16 Space - OR 16:48  |  * BEN JABO 20/12/07
      19.   #16, Adrian de Klerk... 18:33  |  Silvienne 20/12/07
      20.   #18, Ben Jabo to Space... 18:34  |  Silvienne 20/12/07
      21.   #17, Ben Jabo...neither of us are going to live so long, dear Ben 18:40  |  Silvienne 20/12/07
      22.   #17, Ben Jabo...neither of us are going to live so long, dear Ben 18:40  |  Silvienne 20/12/07
      23.   #20 Silvienne re: Space 19:41  |  * BEN JABO 20/12/07
      24.   #21 Silvienne 19:44  |  * BEN JABO 20/12/07
      25.   #Silvienne - you did not answer my question 20:05  |  Adrian de Klerk. 20/12/07
      26.   #23, Ben Jabo... 23:46  |  Silvienne 20/12/07
      27.   #26 Silvienne Since space didn`t pay you 06:17  |  * BEN JABO 21/12/07
      28.   Silvienne - Let`s stay on topic for a change 06:27  |  * BEN JABO 21/12/07
      29.   #6 muslim 10:02  |  Adrian de Klerk 21/12/07
      30.   #27, Ben Jabo... 15:54  |  Silvienne 21/12/07
      31.   #28, Ben Jabo...I`d stay on topic if I knew what the topic was... 15:56  |  Silvienne 21/12/07
      32.   #25, Adrian de Klerk... 16:17  |  Silvienne 21/12/07
      33.   Palestinians have a right to defend themselves and their land 19:36  |  * BEN JABO 21/12/07
      34.   Palestinians have aq right to no check points in Palestine 19:39  |  Adrian de Klerk 21/12/07
      35.   #33 silvienne and live saves 20:06  |  Adrian de Klerk 21/12/07
      36.   #33 IS NOT BEN JABO - "IT`S A FORGERY" 20:34  |  * BEN JABO 21/12/07
      37.   #34 AN OBVIOUS FORGERY BY A COWARD 20:38  |  *BEN JABO 21/12/07
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