[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it is continuing a counter-terror operation in the West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp, which began more than 35 hours ago.
So far, it says, troops have uncovered dozens of explosives hidden under the roads using engineering vehicles, searched hundreds of buildings and arrested 15 wanted Paleostinians.
The IDF says troops also seized many weapons during the raids, and destroyed an explosives lab and a building used by local terror operatives to observe Israeli forces with surveillance cameras.
Eight Paleostinian button men have so far been killed during festivities with IDF troops in the camp, the military says, some of them in an Arclight airstrike
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yesterday.
In other areas of the West Bank, the IDF says troops arrested 21 wanted Paleostinians in overnight raids.
IDF says it wrapped up operation in West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp after 45 hours
[IsraelTimes] After some 45 hours, the IDF says it has wrapped up a counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp.
During the raid, the IDF says troops scanned around 1,000 buildings and located more than 400 bombs, and seized 27 weapons and other military equipment.
Five explosive manufacturing labs and four sites used by local terror operatives to observe Israeli forces using surveillance cameras were also located and destroyed, the IDF says.
Engineering vehicles uncovered and destroyed dozens of explosives hidden under the roads of the camp, the IDF says.
The IDF says 37 wanted Paleostinians were arrested during the operation, including several senior members of a local terror network.
At least eight Paleostinian button men were killed during festivities with troops amid the raid, some of them in an Arclight airstrike on Wednesday.
One IDF soldier was also seriously maimed in the raid, which the army announced Wednesday. The IDF says troops located the button men, killing some and arresting others amid the operation. 
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