The Palestine Chronology

Two Palestinians stab and injure 2 Israeli women in an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem in the morning. The assailants flee the scene. In the evening, an Israeli soldier is seriously injured when he accidentally detonates an improvised explosive device (IED) planted at a checkpoint n. of the city. After the blast, the IDF discovers and safely detonates several other IEDs planted in the area. Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli forces deliver stopwork orders to 5 homes and a water pipeline under construction in the Jordan Valley. IDF troops patrol in 3 villages nr. Hebron and 2 each nr. Jericho and Ramallah. Israeli settlers steal 3 Palestinian-owned sheep nr. Nablus. (HA, MNA, TOI, WAFA, YA 5/10; PCHR 5/12)

The Israeli govt. lifts its gag order on the news that the IDF has arrested a 2d Hamas operative in 2 mos. attempting to cross into Israel. The young Gazan attempted to cross into Israel on 4/6. The IDF says that he has already given up valuable information related to Hamas’s tunnels. (JP, MNA, YA 5/10)