Israeli troops clashed with Paleostinian button men in a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarem on Thursday morning, with security forces reporting five Border Police officers hurt in the fighting, including three with serious wounds. Two Hamas bad boyz were potted in a separate incident.
According to a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces and Border Police, soldiers exchanged fire with armed Paleostinians in the Tulkarem Camp overnight while carrying out an arrest raid, adding the festivities continued as forces left the area in the morning hours.
According to an initial probe, the five officers were hit by shrapnel from a hand grenade hurled by the forces themselves, seriously wounding three of them and moderately hurting the other two.
The grenade had been hurled by an officer toward Paleostinian button men but hit a metal gate and bounced back. Another officer managed to kick the grenade to the side, moments before it went
kaboom!, according to the probe.
All five were evacuated to the hospital for treatment. One of the officers was in a critical condition and doctors at the Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba were fighting to save his life.
Police later published a video showing the exchanges of fire and the moment the grenade went
kaboom!.
In an earlier statement, the IDF said Paleostinians set off a number of bombs near troops in Tulkarem.
The IDF also said troops hit a number of armed Paleostinians. There was no immediate information on the number of maimed Paleostinians and their conditions in Tulkarem.
A local wing 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 grabbed credit for targeting the Israeli troops with gunfire and makeshift bombs, publishing photos of blood-soaked items purported to belong to maimed soldiers.
Wishing a speedy recovery to the maimed officers, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his accusation that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
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Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
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is behind a recent series of attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers in the West Bank, many of them deadly.
Separately on Thursday morning, the IDF said Paleostinian button men shot up an Israeli motorist on a nearby highway, close to the settlement of Avnei Hefetz. Troops of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit chased after the two suspects, leading to an exchange of fire in which the IDF said the pair was "neutralized" near the entrance to the Paleostinian village of Shufa, southeast of Tulkarm. Soldiers seized an M-16 rifle and magazines found in the suspects’ car, according to the military.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said it was notified of the deaths of the two button men — Abdul Rahman Faris Muhammad Atta, 23, and Hudhayfah Adnan Muhammad Fares, 27 — indicating their bodies were being held by Israel.
The Hamas terror group later claimed the pair as members.
Violence has surged across the West Bank over the past year and a half, with a rise in Paleostinian shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and troops, near-nightly arrest raids by the military, and an uptick in Dire Revenge attacks by murderous Moslem Jewish settlers against Paleostinians.
In separate incidents late Wednesday, festivities broke out between Paleostinians and IDF troops in the West Bank city of Nablus as Jewish pilgrims visited Joseph’s Tomb, a shrine in the city; a Paleostinian was reportedly shot after attacking a civilian Israeli vehicle near the settlement of Ma’ale Levona; and two Paleostinians were detained after a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a bus near the West Bank town of Azzun.
The IDF said troops also detained 10 wanted Paleostinians during overnight raids across the West Bank, with festivities in some areas.
In the Balata refugee camp near Nablus, forces found and demolished a headquarters used by local terror groups to observe Israeli forces with surveillance cameras, the IDF said.
Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank since the beginning of the year have left 27 civilians and three soldiers dead, and several others seriously maimed.
According to a tally by The Times of Israel, 192 West Bank and East Jerusalem Paleostinians have been killed during the same period — the majority during festivities with security forces or while carrying out attacks, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under unclear circumstances, including by armed Israeli settlers.