Published: 07/30/07, 11:56 PM PA War Front Remains Active by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority terrorists attacked several Israeli targets on Monday. Attackers employed firearms, rocks, arson and bombs. Meanwhile, the new PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad declared his support for "resistance" operations against Israel.
Arabs set fire to vegetation near the Jewish town of Yitzhar.

PA gunmen opened fire on IDF soldiers on Monday night near the town of Itamar, south of Shechem. No soldiers were injured in the attack. Earlier in the night, Arabs set fire to vegetation near the Jewish town of Yitzhar, also in the vicinity of Shechem. In the afternoon, soldiers arrested two Arabs in the same area after the two were found to have a gun in their possession. The gun was found during a search of the PA residents' car.

Also on Monday afternoon, soldiers operating in proximity to Gaza found a bomb along the regional security fence, near Kibbutz Nirim. The bomb was destroyed in a controlled explosion. Enemy gunmen subsequently opened fire on the soldiers. It was at least the second shooting attack in the area on Monday. No soldiers were injured in the incidents.

IDF sappers destroyed another bomb in a controlled explosion on Monday afternoon. The pipe bomb was found in an Arab-owned vehicle in the intersection between Efrat and Tekoa in Gush Etzion. The driver of the vehicle was arrested.

Arabs stoned two buses on Monday night near Hevron. One bus was attacked between Hevron and the nearby Jewish city of Kiryat Arba. The second was stoned near the Arab village of Halhul, north of Hevron. No passengers were injured on either bus, but at least one of the buses was damaged. In a similar attack on Monday, Arabs threw heavy stones at an Israeli driver near Beit Omer, between Gush Etzion and Hevron. The driver was unhurt, but his vehicle suffered damage.

Several days after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas unveiled the new PA platform, which seemed to have dropped all reference to PA armed "resistance" to Jewish sovereignty, PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said, "Resistance is a legitimate right for the Palestinian people as an occupied people." He made the comment in Cairo on Monday, prior to a meeting with officials of the Arab League.