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2024-08-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel air strike kills three Palestinians on third day of West Bank raid
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[GEO.TV] Israel said it killed three Hamas fighters in an air strike in the occupied West Bank on Friday, taking the death toll from a large-scale military operation now in its third day to at least 19.
A top UN aid official meanwhile questioned "what has become of our basic humanity", as the war raged on in Gaza and humanitarian operations struggle to respond.
Israeli forces claim they kill local Hamas commander in West Bank
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces killed a local commander of Hamas in the flashpoint city of Jenin on Friday as they pressed a major operation in the occupied West Bank for a third day, the Israeli military said.
The military said Border Police forces had killed Wassem Hazem, who it said was the head of Hamas in Jenin and was involved in shooting and bombing attacks in the Palestinian territory. Wissam Ayman Hazem was killed in an aerial bombing after clashing with the Israeli forces in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
said, reported Al Jazeera.
The death of two other members, Maisarah Masharqa and Arafat Amer, in the attack was also confirmed through a statement on Telegram.
Head of Hamas in Jenin, 2 other operatives killed in IDF drone strike, shootout
[IsraelTimes] Wissam Hazem shot dead by undercover forces amid ongoing major operation in northern West Bank; in all, military says 20 gunmen killed
The commander of Hamas
 ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’s military wing in the West Bank city of Jenin was killed along with two other operatives in festivities and dronezaps on Friday morning, the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security agency, and police said.
According to the military, amid an ongoing operation in the northern West Bank, troops spotted a cell of button men in a car in the Jenin area town of Zababdeh.
Inside the car was Wissam Hazem, the head of Hamas’s terror network in Jenin.
Undercover Border Police officers shot up the car, killing Hazem, while the other two button men fled, the joint statement said. A short while later, a drone struck and killed the pair.
The military released drone footage showing the moment the Border Police officers ambushed Hazem and the dronezaps carried out a short while later. Police released a separate clip from body cameras on the officers, showing them blocking the car that Hazem was in and exchanging fire with him.
According to Israel, Hazem was involved in numerous shooting and bombing attacks and was advancing additional attacks.
The other two button men, killed by the drone, were named by the IDF as Maysara Masharqa and Arafat Amer.
The military said they were Hamas members working under Hazem and were also involved in shooting attacks, including against Israeli communities near the West Bank security barrier.
Inside the car and on the bodies of the terror operatives, the IDF says it recovered assault rifles, handguns and other equipment.
No troops were hurt in the incident.
The dronezaps came amid an ongoing large-scale operation in the northern West Bank launched early Wednesday. The military has been operating mostly in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, but also in Jenin and the Far’a camp near Tubas.
The IDF said on Friday afternoon that it had killed 20 button men and detained another 17 since the start of the operation. Paleostinian media also reported that 20 had been killed.
Early Thursday, Israeli forces killed five Paleostinian button men who were hiding in a mosque in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, including the commander of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
’s local wing in the Nur Shams camp, the military said.
Another founding member of Islamic Jihad’s local wing in Tulkarem was detained.
The large operation, involving the Kfir Brigade, the Duvdevan Commando Unit, combat engineers and Border Police, was expected to last at least several days, military sources said Wednesday.
The ongoing operation was focused on dismantling a Hamas and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror network in the Tulkarem area, as well as in Jenin and the Far’a camp near Tubas.
While the army has said it has seen a relative decline in terror coming from the northern West Bank in recent months, it has also seen continued attempts by terror operatives to launch attacks.
After a series of smaller operations in the northern West Bank, the IDF decided to launch a more extensive operation, targeting three areas at once — Jenin, Tulkarem and Far’a — where terror operatives were seen as operating together, military sources said.
The large-scale operation was also launched in part following an intended suicide kaboom in Tel Aviv earlier this month.
The IDF has carried out several dronezaps amid the operation. 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.
A Border Police officer was lightly hurt and an IDF soldier was moderately maimed amid the operations on Wednesday and Thursday.
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’s health ministry, more than 670 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 gunnies carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 27 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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