: 10.0pt"> Israel continues its raids into Palestinian towns, and retaking control over some of them. The attacks on individual terrorist leaders has resumed, with some success. The new invasion of Palestinian territory is covering the same ground as the previous incursion (March 29-May 10). But this time the Israelis are threatening to make it permanent and impose Israeli civil administration. 

The increased Israeli military operations have hurt terrorist attacks, with more being caught in preparation or stopped before they could reach their targets.