Two days after the green light for targeted assassinations was given, an IAF aircraft fired a missile into a moving vehicle in the Gaza Strip killing a prominent terrorist commander from the Popular Resistance Committees.

The IDF identified the target as Mahmoud Arkan, a 29-year-old commander of the PRC in the Rafah area behind most of the attacks there in the past months...

...Hours after the attack [The Netanya bombing. -S], PA security forces tried unsuccessfully to detain a Jihad terrorist in Jenin. The man, who was not identified, was shot in the shoulder during the attempt to detain him.

Eyewitnesses said scores of Fatah and Islamic Jihad gunmen, backed by many civilians, foiled the attempt to apprehend the terrorist and take him to a prison in Jericho.

Local members of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's armed wing, voiced support for the suicide attack, pledging to use force to thwart any attempt by the PA to detain Islamic Jihad officials. The group's commander, Zakariya Zubeidi, was among those who welcomed the attack, saying it was "a natural response to Israeli violations of the truce."

Another attempt to detain Jihad activists in the Balata and Askar refugee camps near Nablus also failed after dozens of gunmen drove back the PA security forces after pelting them with stones...