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By Anonymous (not verified) , 27 October, 2005
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Israeli military vehicles rolled into the West Bank city of Jenin today, after a suicide bomber killed five people in Hedera on Wednesday.

Headline 102705

Israeli military vehicles rolled into the West Bank city of Jenin today, after a suicide bomber killed five people in Hedera on Wednesday.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing saying that it came in response to the assassination of an Islamic Jihad commander in Tulkarem on Sunday night

The Israeli army carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip last night and today launched a series of operations targeting Palestinian resistance groups in the West Bank.

Israeli troops arrested Islamic Jihad leader Shiekh Abdulhalim Izziddin during today's incursion into Jenin.

In addition to the military operations, Israel has once again closed the Gaza Strip border crossings to Israel