A bomb went off on Sunday morning on a railroad in central Israel as a train passed over. Three people were lightly injured. Israel radio reported that two of the injured were hurt by the force of the blast, and another was suffering from shock. One of the carriages was damaged.
The explosion took place just north of the town of Lod and the Israeli police believed that the charge was planted during the night.
Israeli security forces in Jerusalem were on high alert for a possible attack Sunday. Roadblocks were set up throughout the city.
In the West Bank, Israeli forces moved into Al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah on Sunday and arrested all of the camp's male residents above the age of 15.
The soldiers took the men to a nearby school where they were detained for questioning. Palestinian sources in the camp said that some of the men had been released after a short interrogation.
Palestinian sources said Sunday that a 12-year-old boy had been injured from Israeli fire in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. According to the sources, the boy was shot while army bulldozers were uprooting agricultural fields in Area A.
Meanwhile, ten illegal settlements in the West Bank will be dismantled during Sunday or Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Saturday.
Last week, Ben-Eliezer vowed to remove 20 of the hilltop outposts, even if he had to send in the army to forcibly remove the settlers. "By the end of the day tomorrow, 10 outposts are to be taken down," Ben-Eliezer told a gathering of his Labor Party.
Ben-Eliezer told Israeli television the outposts that would be dismantled initially are those that are most “dangerous.”
Some are far removed from the larger settlements, have no security fence around them and consist of nothing more than a mobile home and an Israeli flag. "These outposts ... are very remote and have very few people and this is in essence a serious security risk," Ben-Eliezer said.
On Saturday, Israeli troops arrested more than 40 Palestinians, including three with close ties to Hamas, during its sweep of West Bank towns, Palestinian and Israeli military sources said.
Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers entered the village of Tammun at dawn, imposing a curfew and conducting house-to-house searches for suspects, the mayor told AFP. More than 20 Palestinians were rounded up in the village, south of Jenin, where troops took over the local high school and turned it into a military position, Bashar Audeh said. (Albawaba.com)
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