[GEO.TV] An Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank killed two Palestinians on Thursday as Jewish worshippers visited a nearby disputed holy site, Palestinian sources and Israeli army said.
"Two men, aged 18 and 20, were killed and seven people were wounded, one of them seriously, in Balata" refugee camp in Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said in a statement.
Two Paleostinian button men were killed in an Israeli dronezap in the West Bank’s Balata refugee camp near Nablus early Thursday morning. The Israel Defense Forces said troops had been carrying out a counterterrorism operation in the area, returning fire and hitting button men who threw explosives at them.
Amid the operation, it said a dronezap was carried out against two armed Paleostinians. The slain men were named by Paleostinian health officials as Ahmad Sheikh Khalil, 20, and Wael Mashah, 18. Mashah had been tossed in the slammer
anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not
by Israel previously, being freed in November amid a hostage deal with Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
, in which Israel released Paleostinian terror convicts and detainees, mostly from the West Bank, in exchange for Israeli civilians kidnapped by the terror group on October 7.
It was the second time this week that a Paleostinian terrorist freed in the November deal was killed by Israel. On Monday, Hamas commander Tariq Daoud, who had been released in the hostage deal, shot up an Israeli man and two Paleostinians in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, before being killed by an IDF brigade commander.
Also overnight, the IDF said troops and Border Police officers secured the entry of Jewish worshipers to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus. Before the war, busloads of Orthodox Jews visited Joseph’s Tomb under IDF protection on a near-monthly basis. The IDF has recently returned to carrying out the coordinated visits, although less frequently. The IDF bars Israeli citizens from entering Paleostinian cities without authorization and protection, and some criticize the monthly incursions as an unnecessary provocation that places Israeli soldiers at risk. The shrine, regarded by some as the final resting place of the biblical patriarch Joseph, is located inside Area A of the West Bank, which is officially under complete Paleostinian Authority control, though the Israeli military regularly enters despite Paleostinian opposition.
The dronezap near Nablus came hours after another five Paleostinian button men were killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank.
According to the IDF, troops on Wednesday entered the West Bank city of Tubas, the nearby town of Tamun and the Far’a refugee camp to detain wanted Paleostinians and dismantle local terror groups in the area. The towns are located on the edge of the northern Jordan Valley, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) northeast of Nablus.
In Tubas, an bomb planted on a road went kaboom! by a light armored vehicle, wounding four troops. Two were listed in moderate condition and the other two were lightly hurt, the IDF said. Also in Tubas, the army said a senior wanted member of a terror group in the area was killed in an exchange of fire with troops. Other armed Paleostinians were maimed by Israeli forces in the festivities.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch clutched at his leg. Son of a Breech! he exclaimed with feeling......
in Tamun, a dronezap was carried out against a group of Paleostinian button men, killing four of them, according to the IDF.
In the past 10 months, the IDF has carried out more than 60 Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s in the West Bank, using drones, attack helicopters, and fighter jets.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,850 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,960 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 630 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 26 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another five members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank. 
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