#1 IDF SPOKESPERSON ANNOUNCEMENT 15 June 2004 (3 minutes after midnight)

IAF attack on a senior Tanzim terrorist:

[IMRA: Tanzim is part of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement]

In an Israeli Security Forces activity, tonight in the city of Nablus, the
IAF targeted a vehicle carrying a senior Tanzim terrorist, who is
responsible for several terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF
soldiers.

After repeated efforts to arrest the terrorist were to no avail, the IDF
acted in order to thwart future attacks.

The IDF will continue to operate against anyone who is involved in terrorist
activities.

#2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION (provided by the IDF Spokesperson)
Attributed to "security sources"

In a joint security forces operation of the IDF and the GSS in Nablus,
tonight (June 14, 2004), the IDF targeted a senior Tanzim terrorist, Halil
Muhamed Zuhaid Araysha, in Nablus, born 1980, resident of the Balata refugee
camp, married without children, was directly responsible for numerous
terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers during recent
months. Another two operatives who acted as assistants to Araysha, were also
killed in the attack.

Israeli Security Forces are acting in order to thwart a series of attempted
terrorist attacks directed by Tanzim terrorists.

Araysha, a senior Tanzim terrorist, was involved in dispatching attacks and
acted as a senior Tanzim member in the Balata refugee camp, together with
Nader Abu-Lil and Hashem Abu-Hamdan who were killed in a Security Forces
operation at the beginning of May 2004.

After the targeting of Abu-Lil and Abu-Hamdan, Araysha became the head of
the Tanzim terrorist infrastructure in Balata and was involved in numerous
attempts to carry out terrorist attacks with explosives, shooting attacks
and suicide bombings in the vicinity of Nablus and inside Israel.

The following is a list of terrorist attacks and attempted attacks against
Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers in the past year, in which Araysha was
involved:

* March 2003 - Araysha was involved in the dispatching of two
terrorists who were supposed to infiltrate the Bracha community; Araysha
took pictures of the terrorists, equipped them with weapons and drove them
to the area where they were to continue by foot to the community. The
terrorist attack was thwarted by the IDF.

* July 2003 - Araysha was involved in recruiting two suicide bombers
for the purpose of carrying out a suicide bombing. He connected the two with
Nader Abu -Lil (a Tanzim terrorist who was killed by Israeli security forces
on May 2004) who dispatched them to carry out a double suicide bombing
inside Israel. The attack was thwarted by the IDF.

* October 2003 - Araysha was behind the suicide bombing in the DCO
facility in Tulkarm, in which an IDF soldier was injured.

* November 2003 - A suicide bomber exploded himself near an IDF force
in the village of Azun, while trying to infiltrate Israel and carry out a
bombing. The bomber was recruited by Araysha.

* December 2003 - Araysha recruited a suicide bomber in order to
carry out an attack inside Israel. He sent the bomber to have his hair cut
before the attack and armed him with an explosive belt. The bomber decided
not to carry out the attack and was eventually arrested.

* March 2004 - Araysha was involved in recruiting a suicide bomber
together with Abu Hamdan and Nader Abu- Lil. The bomber was later arrested
with an explosive belt in Ramallah.

* On May 6, 2004 - Araysha directed a suicide attack using a car
bomb rigged with 100 kg of explosives, that was due to detonate near an IDF
post in the village of Salem, near Nablus. The attack was thwarted due to
intelligence activity.

* June 3, 2004 - Araysha was behind a terrorist cell who attempted to
dispatch a suicide bomber into Jerusalem - an attack which was thwarted due
to intelligence activity.