[IsraelTimes] IDF says 3 Palestinian gunmen killed in drone strike, gun battle amid counterterror operation; IDF soldier seriously wounded; perpetrators of al-Fundaq shooting still on the lam
As Israel Defense Forces troops carried out counterterrorism raids across the West Bank, Defense Minister Israel Katz visited on Tuesday the site of a deadly terror attack in the Paleostinian village of al-Funduq, which he said was an "act of war" that will be answered in kind.
Two elderly women and an off-duty cop were killed and eight Israelis were maimed when Paleostinian Death Eaters opened fire on vehicles as they passed through the village on Monday.
The three perpetrators from the Jenin area of the northern West Bank are still on the lam.
"The despicable, murderous terror attack that occurred here yesterday is an act of war for all intents and purposes, and it will be answered accordingly," Katz said in remarks provided by his office.
"We will hit the Death Eaters and those who sent them, and we will act powerfully against the places from where the Death Eaters came," he said.
Far-right government members and settler leaders have called for military action in the West Bank resembling that taken in the 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 a rusty 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 oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, where the IDF has evacuated and destroyed entire cities that it said had become terror strongholds.
According to a preliminary IDF probe, the terrorists, armed with assault rifles, initially shot up a civilian car from a close range, killing Rachel Cohen, 73, and Aliza Raiz, 70.
They then fired at a bus farther away, injuring eight people, at which point an armed civilian opened fire with a handgun, causing the button men to get back in their car and flee.
While the Death Eaters were escaping, they opened fire on another car, killing off-duty police officer Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein, 35.
The military said it had launched a manhunt for the three perpetrators, two of whom were already wanted for involvement in terror activity, while the third was still unidentified.
The army said it set up roadblocks near the attack site, and placed cordons around the city of Nablus and several other nearby villages.
Amid an apparently unrelated operation overnight, the IDF said it killed two Paleostinian button men who were shooting at troops in the town of Tamun, in the Jordan Valley, during a brigade-level counterterrorism raid in the area.
The military said the group of button men was targeted with a dronezap. Several suspects were detained and weapons were seized during the operation, the military said. 
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