Israeli forces captured two Palestinian terrorists in a French-run West Bank hospital. The two Al-Aksa Brigade members were found hiding in the administrative section of Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem, along with an arms cache. In Nablus, the army rounded up 300 Palestinian men in a search for local terrorists.
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