The Israel Defense Forces captured Friday the most wanted Hamas militant in the West Bank city of Nablus, bringing to an end a four-day operation aimed at thwarting a suicide bombing in Israel.

Also Friday, the IDF struck Gaza militants who were preparing to fire mortar shells at targets in Israel. The army said the militants belong to a cell that had already fired at Israel. Palestinian sources did not report any casualties.

The wanted Hamas militant, 34-year-old Nihad Shkirat, is believed to have headed a joint Hamas and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine cell in the city...

Early Wednesday morning, a convoy of armored personnel carriers and four Israel Defense Forces jeeps entered Jenin - not an unusual event, but one of the armored jeeps had four very unusual passengers. The four foreigners had previously spent time in Jenin as volunteer aid workers and remember Israeli soldiers mostly as the ones pointing guns at them. This time, however, they came with the army to reenact their version of how IDF soldiers shot one of them in the face, seriously wounding him.

In April 2003, Brian Avery, a 24-year-old American volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement, went outside with other group members to assist Palestinian medics in Jenin. The aid workers came under fire, apparently from an Israeli APC. Avery was hit in the face and spent several weeks in Haifa's Rambam Medical Center undergoing a series of operations to reconstruct his face...