Israeli military troops, on the offensive since Monday's bombing attack in Tel Aviv, advanced into the Palestinian village of Al-Arqa and arrested father of the Palestinian young man who blew himself up in yesterday's attack, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday. Simultaneously, other forces burst into the town of Jenin, searched houses and captured 15 suspected activists.Palestinian sources said the troops burst into the house of the bomber, Sami Hamad, 21, arrested his father and forced the family out of the house in preparation for blowing it up. At the same time, other troops advanced into Jenin, searched several sectors of the town and arrested 15 suspected activists, the sources said.
In the nearby village of Birqin, witnesses said the assaulting regulars, aided with sniffer dogs, opened fire in the direction of students and prevented them from proceeding to school. Over the night, Israeli multi-winged aircraft hovering across dark skies carried out a raid striking a metal workshop suspected of being a makeshift factory for making short-range rockets in a district in Gaza city, amid high tension resulting from a bombing attack on Monday that killed at least nine people and wounded 60 others in the heart of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.