Saudi officials foil plot on hajj sites Police arrested a group of men planning to attack holy sites around Mecca during the just-completed annual Muslim pilgrimage, the Saudi Interior Ministry said Friday. Gaza violence abates, Israel threatens action Fighting between rival Palestinian factions in Gaza abated on Thursday after a new ceasefire deal but Israel threatened to step up attacks on militants firing rockets across the border. Israeli troops raid Nablus, start curfew Dozens of Israeli jeeps and armored vehicles poured into Nablus overnight Sunday, placing large areas of the city under curfew and conducting house-to-house arrest raids in one of the largest West Bank military operations in months.