October 5, 2005

The IDF continues for a 2d day to bulldoze Palestinian land inside the Gaza border s. of Kissufim crossing. Unidentified Palestinian gunmen allegedly wearing PA police uniforms kidnap 2 Hamas mbrs. in Shati‘ r.c.; in response, Hamas mbrs. detain, seriously beat a PA general intelligence officer. In the 2d such incident in 2 days, a Palestinian man knifes, wounds an IDF soldier at a checkpoint outside Nablus, is shot, wounded, arrested. (NYT 10/6; MEI 10/12)