Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has decided to renew the Qatari-purchased fuel deliveries into the Gaza Strip, starting Wednesday.

This comes three days after the Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings were reopened following a relative calm.  

Liberman made the decision after consulting with the IDF, the Shin Bet security service and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.

He said the decision was made following the decrease in violent incidents on the Gaza border over the weekend and the Hamas efforts to restrain violence in the area.

IDF soldiers came under fire at around 9:30 pm, near Halhoul, some five kilometers north of Hebron, a military spokesman said Tuesday. No casualties were reported in the incident. Two Palestinian suspects have been arrested.

Security sources told TPS that two Palestinian cars coming from the direction of Halhoul had approached a check point and one drove through the checkpoint and opened fire on the soldiers. The force returned fire and arrested to suspects from the second car. A search is being conducted for the car from which shots were fired.

The Haifa District Court sentenced Muhammad Shinawi, the terrorist who shot and killed Guy Kafri in the city in January 2017, to life in prison, Tuesday.

After an investigation, security forces determined that the attack, in which another person was seriously wounded, was an act of nationalistic terrorism against Jews.

The indictment stated that Shinawi, an Arab resident of the mixed city, had acted out of “hatred of Jews.”

Shinawi confessed to all charges.

Border police units arrested a Palestinian man who pulled out a knife on them at a security checkpoint at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Tuesday. “The Palestinian has been arrested at the scene and questioned. The border police officers immediately prevented the knife attack. Regular security measures continue in the area, ” Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said in a statement.

The head of Israel’s Security Agency (Shin Bet) Nadav Argaman met with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu-Mazen) in his home in Ramallah last week, Israel’s Kan Ben Radio reported.