Police arrested a 19-year-old Palestinian who apparently planned to stab Jews in Jerusalem's Old City on the eve of Rosh Hashana. When he was arrested during a routine check on Monday morning, he was carrying a large knife and two suicide notes saying he would be a "jihad" for the Palestinian cause. Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the West Bank closed for the two days of Rosh Hashana after 10 specific terrorist warnings and dozens of general warnings of possible terror attacks. A Kassam rocket was fired on Monday afternoon from Gaza, in violation of the June truce, but it fell inside the Strip and caused no harm, security sources said. Meanwhile, the UN Rights Council approved, by a 32-9 vote, a report accusing Israel of "possibly" committing a war crime. The council took the action on September 24, focusing on the 2006 IDF shelling of the Gaza village of Beit Hanun, a launching pad for rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli communities. Written by a fact-finding group led by South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the document states that Israel's refusal to cooperate with the investigation had "hampered its work." "Faced with the absence of a well-founded explanation from the Israeli military, the mission had to conclude that there was a possibility that the shelling of Beit Hanun constituted a war crime," according to the report. The US stopped participating in the council earlier this year because of the group's "pathetic" record on human rights. Such human rights violators as Cuba, China and Saudi Arabia are all members of the body - and all voted in favor of adopting the report. JTA contributed to this report.
