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| 2 Palestinian teens said killed in Jenin clashes as IDF arrests shooting suspect |
| 2022-10-09 |
| [IsraelTimes] Paleostinian report says both were 17-years-old; Israeli military says it responded to explosives, gunfire while detaining suspect accused of attacks on troops in West Bank Two Paleostinian teens were killed during an arrest operation by the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, the Paleostinian Authority’s Health Ministry said. The PA’s official Wafa news agency said both of the dead were 17-year-old boys. The PA’s Health Ministry additionally reported there were 11 Paleostinians maimed in the festivities with Israeli forces. three of them seriously. There were no immediate reports of Israeli injuries. The Israeli military said in a statement that it had arrested a suspect accused of carrying out shooting attacks on troops in the West Bank, and that festivities broke out during the operation. The military said dozens of Paleostinians threw explosives and Molotov cocktails, as well as opening fire toward the Israeli forces. According to the joint statement issued by the IDF and Shin Bet security agency, Israeli forces "fired at gunnies in the area," and there were a number of individuals hit. No further details were given. The military said it had detained 25-year-old Saleh Samir Abu Zina, a member 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... terror group who was suspected of planning and carrying out recent shooting attacks on IDF troops operating in the West Bank. The army said in the statement that Abu Zina has been convicted twice in the past for terror activities, and was most recently released from prison in 2020. |
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