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2025-01-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF launches major counterterror raid in West Bank’s Jenin, expected to last days
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[IsraelTimes] Operation Iron Wall begins with drone strikes on terror infrastructure; large numbers of troops enter city; 10 Palestinians said killed, 40 wounded
The Israel Defense Forces launched a major counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday afternoon, which military sources said was expected to last several days.
The operation began with a series of dronezaps on infrastructure used by terror groups in Jenin, a military source said.
Paleostinian media outlets reported several Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s and local health officials said at least 10 people were killed and 40 were maimed.
Footage published by Paleostinian media showed Israeli Air Force helicopters flying over Jenin.
In a brief joint statement, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency confirmed the operation, dubbed "Iron Wall," and said further details would be provided later.
IDF sources said large numbers of troops, including special forces, Shin Bet agents and Border Police officers, were operating in the city.
The goals of the operation were to "preserve the IDF’s freedom of action" in the West Bank, neutralize terror infrastructure and eliminate imminent threats, according to military sources.
The sources said the operation would last at least several days.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation was "another step in achieving the goal we set, strengthening security in Judea and Samaria."
Judea and Samaria is the biblical name for the West Bank.
"We are operating in a systematic and decisive way against the Iranian axis wherever it sends its arms, in 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 ...
, Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
, Syria, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
and Judea and Samaria," Netanyahu said in a statement released by his office.
On Monday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said the military was preparing for "significant operations" in the West Bank, amid a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
"Along with the intense defense preparations in the Gaza Strip, we must be prepared for significant operations in Judea and Samaria in the coming days in order to preempt and catch the snuffies before they reach our citizens," he said during an assessment, in remarks released by the IDF.
On Sunday, military officials said the Central Command was readying to carry out offensive actions in the West Bank, to prevent Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
from establishing a foothold in the West Bank in light of the release of members of the terror group in the ceasefire deal.
The offensive plans were being coordinated with the Paleostinian Authority, which also fears its rival Hamas gaining power in the West Bank, the officials said.
Hundreds of Paleostinian security prisoners are due to be released to the West Bank in the hostage deal and ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, including many convicted of deadly terror attacks.
The Tuesday raid came a day after an Israeli reservist soldier was killed and four others were maimed, including a senior officer at death's door, when they were hit by a roadside kaboom in the northern West Bank.
It also followed a shaky truce agreement between the Paleostinian Authority and terror groups operating in Jenin that ended a six-week standoff in the northern West Bank city and adjacent refugee camp.
The PA had been targeting the so-called Jenin Battalion, made up of operatives affiliated with terror groups such as Hamas and 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...
, in a bid to show incoming US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
that Ramallah can maintain order in the West Bank, amid its push to take the reins of Gaza from Hamas after the war there.
The IDF, which also staged counterterrorism operations in the northern West Bank in recent months, has said that it supported bolstering the PA forces to help them in the fight against the Jenin Battalion. The military paused its airstrikes on Jenin as PA forces operated there, but ended that policy last week with a pair of airstrikes on terror operatives that killed a dozen people, including civilians.
Paleostinian media reported Tuesday that as Israeli troops entered Jenin, PA forces withdrew from the area.
The West Bank has seen a sharp rise in violence since the Gaza war was sparked on October 7, 2023.
Since then, IDF troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 858 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 snuffies carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another seven members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank. 
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