IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested five suspects.

**Two mortar shells fired from Gaza landed near Alumim on Thursday morning. Baruch Hashem, no injuries.

**Construction throughout Yehuda and Shomron dropped 33% during the first half of 2009 as compared to a year earlier. x

**Two firebombs were hurled at a vehicle traveling on the Tunnel Highway between el-Hader Jct. and Efrat on Wednesday night. No injuries.

**A motorist sustained light injuries in rock-throwing attacks on the Jerusalem-Modi’in Highway on Wednesday night.

**A body was found in a vehicle outside a Maalot industrial zone on Thursday morning. The body exhibits signs of gunfire.

**Media reports indicate the explosion in the Hizbullah warehouse last month involved chemical weaponry.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)