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Chief-of-Staff Lieutenant General Shaul Mofaz told Sunday morning's weekly cabinet meeting that 11 IDF soldiers and 200 Palestinians have been killed during Israel's 10-day campaign in Palestinian-controlled cities in the West Bank. Mofaz added that 143 soldiers and 1,500 Palestinians have been injured so far in the operation, known as 'Defensive Wall'. IDF spokesman Brigadier General Ron Kitrey said Sunday that the Israeli operation in Jenin could end by Sunday night. Speaking to Israel Radio, Kitrey said that while the IDF had not received any order to hasten its operations in the West Bank, and was pushing ahead with its...

At this writing, it has been over four days since Israel was forced to endure a major suicide terrorist atrocity deliberately aimed at innocent civilians. Still the funerals have continued as four more wounded victims of the Passover massacre in Netanya passed away this week, along with a man severely injured in last Saturday’s attack on a coffee house in Tel Aviv and another who was wounded in the Haifa restaurant blast on Sunday. Why the relative quiet? It is unquestionably the result of the massive Israeli army operation against the suicide terrorist centers in Yasser Arafat’s autonomous zones. Hamas,...