EU officials express concern over continued construction in settlements.

**IDF soldiers taking part in counter-terror operations throughout Yehuda and Shomron arrested seven suspects on Tuesday night.

**5 students in a Kalansua elementary schools have been diagnosed with swine flu.

**The left-wing B’tselem human rights organization reports over half of the victims of Operation Cast Lead were civilians, contradicting IDF reports.

**Former minister R’ Shlomo Benizri, who last week began serving a 4.5 year prison term, was informed that he became a grandfather. His son proudly announced he and his wife had a boy.

**A police volunteer was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident near Kafr Kassam on Wednesday.

**Two people armed with knives were detected close to midnight near el-Harif along the Egyptian border. They did not adhere to orders to halt and were fired upon and killed. It appears they were smuggling a quantity of drugs.

**8 people were injured in a vehicular accident between Beit El and Ofrah on Tuesday.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)