Israel’s army reportedly is digging trenches around Jenin and Nablus. An Israeli colonel who heads an engineering team was quoted by the weekly army magazine Bamachaneh as saying the trenches are designed to keep Palestinians from driving explosives-laden vehicles from the two cities into Israel.
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