Four Paleostinian button men were killed and an Israeli reservist was moderately maimed in an overnight shootout during an army raid in the West Bank town of Azzun, the military said Tuesday morning.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops of the 8211th Reserve Battalion were carrying out a counterterror operation in the town when they came under fire by Paleostinian button men.
Four terror operatives opened fire and hurled bombs at the troops from a building. The soldiers engaged, killing the four button men, and seized three makeshift "Carlo" submachine guns, the IDF said.
The IDF said one reservist officer was moderately maimed in the shootout and was taken to a hospital for further treatment.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry named the four button men as Walid Ismail Walid Radwan, 18, Qusay Jamal Salim Salah, 21, Iyad Ahmed Mustafa Shubaita, 22, and Muhammad Abdel Fattah Othman Radwan, 26.
The ministry claimed Israeli authorities were holding their bodies.
In a separate overnight raid, the IDF said reservists operating in the Paleostinian city of Qalqilya shot a gunman who had shot up them with a handgun. The IDF said the gunman was "neutralized," without elaborating on his condition.
No soldiers were maimed in that incident, the IDF said.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, IDF troops and Border Police officers detained seven wanted Paleostinians, the military said.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since October 7, when thousands of Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...-led Death Eaters burst into Israel from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
by land, air and sea in a shock assault.
Since October 7, troops have arrested more than 2,550 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,300 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 300 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of those killed since October 7 were shot during festivities amid arrest raids, and many of them, according to data seen by The Times of Israel, were armed with either a firearm or an bomb.
The IDF is aware of at least three cases of uninvolved Paleostinians being killed by troops in recent months, and a handful of cases of settlers killing Paleostinians, which are still under investigation.
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