An Israeli soldier was seriously maimed during a shootout with Paleostinian button men in the northern West Bank early Wednesday, the military said.The Israel Defense Forces said the servicewoman was hit by shrapnel during an arrest raid in the city of Tubas, near Nablus, in the northern Jordan Valley.
"During the activity in Tubas, there was an exchange of fire between gunnies and IDF forces," the IDF said.
She was taken to a hospital in Israel for further treatment.
The military initially blocked publication of the incident for several hours.
In a separate armed clash in the West Bank city of Qabatiya, Israeli troops killed two Paleostinian button men.
The IDF said that during an arrest operation in the city, the two button men shot up troops from a passing vehicle. "The troops responded by firing at the two terrorists, killing them," the IDF said, adding that troops seized an assault rifle and handgun from the car.
Tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have been elevated for the past year, with the IDF conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks.
The IDF said Wednesday morning that 19 wanted Paleostinians were detained during the overnight operations across the West Bank. They were handed over to the Shin Bet security agency for further questioning.
Since the beginning of the year, Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank have killed 19 people and left several more seriously hurt. At least 103 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed during that span, most of them while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated.
The raids early Wednesday came as tensions continued to build a day after Israel launched an offensive against 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 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip.