
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Tuesday ordered  the terrorist alert level elevated on both sides of the Green Line due  to the forecast of a fresh wave of Palestinian violence. Monday night,  Hamas – now part of the Palestinian government – praised the Palestinian  shooting attack outside Nablus as “an act of heroism” as Israel forces  raided the home of the gunman, Alaa Muhammed Awad, 30, in Hawara, and  carried out searches and arrests. Awad himself was shot dead in return  fire from the Border Police checkpoint he attacked.