The IDF said Tuesday night that the commander of the West Bank regional brigade in charge of the Tulkarem area was lightly injured after a bomb went
kaboom!beside his vehicle during a military operation in the city.
The Paleostinian health ministry reported that the ongoing raid by Israeli forces in the city had resulted in eight fatalities, including two women. The military said it had targeted button men in a dronezap amid the operation, had "eliminated a terrorist," and arrested 18 terror suspects.
Menashe Brigade Commander Col. Ayub Kayuf was taken to a hospital for treatment. He was initially listed in moderate condition following the earth-shattering kaboom, but the army later said his injury was mild. No others were hurt by the blast.
Ramallah said two women — Khawla Ali Abdullah Abdo, 53, and Bara Khalid Hussein, 30 — were among those killed in Tulkarem. Eighteen-year-old Fathi Said Awda Ubaid was also among those killed there, it said, adding he was fatally shot in the chest and abdomen.
Residents of the Tulkarem camp reported that the raid, which began in the early hours of Tuesday, involved bulldozers destroying roads. The IDF sometimes demolishes roads amid operations to tackle bombs planted along them.
Violence in the West Bank has intensified since the war 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
broke out last year following Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...’s deadly October 7 attack on Israel.
The Israeli operation came amid an unprecedented crackdown by Paleostinian Authority security forces on terrorism in the West Bank, in which two Paleostinian officers were killed and several more maimed in Jenin on Monday.
On Monday, Maharan Kadous, a Paleostinian police officer, was killed clashing with button men in Jenin. Kadous was the second Paleostinian security officer to be killed within 24 hours, amid an operation that began about a week ago in response to an incident earlier this month in which terror operatives stole two Paleostinian Authority vehicles and paraded them through Jenin.
The PA has a relatively strong presence in the southern and central West Bank, where it can maintain order. But in the northern part of the territory, especially the refugee camps in the Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarem, it has struggled to exercise authority against terror groups.
The Ramallah-based government’s recent operations against terror groups are also seen as an attempt to demonstrate its capacity to govern the Gaza Strip, where Israel has been battling the Hamas terror group.
On Sunday, it was announced that Sahar Farouk Rahil, a PA security officer who served on the PA’s elite "presidential guard," was killed by button men in the Jenin refugee camp.
In a statement following Rahil’s death, PA Security Services front man Col. Anwar Rajab said, "This crime only strengthens the services’ determination to pursue lawbreakers, to enforce the rule of law, and to ensure the security of the Paleostinian people."
On Monday, the Jenin Battalion of the 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 published — then took down and denied ever having published — a video of four operatives wearing boom jackets warning Paleostinian security officers that if they entered the refugee camp the operatives were "ready to blow ourselves up."
Separately, images circulated online Monday that appeared to show Paleostinian security officers holding RPGs, a weapon not supposed to exist in the services’ arsenal.
According to preliminary reports, the PA forces are believed to have seized the RPGs from Islamic Jihad operatives during the operation, and are not known to have used them, according to Channel 12.
Last week, Paleostinian security services arrested some 110 terror operatives, seized 100 explosives, and neutralized eight boom-mobiles, according to reports. Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
some 32 button men have been maimed so far, and two killed, Channel 12 reported.
Sheikh Mohammad Salah, head mufti of the Paleostinian Security Services, said of the deaths, "We don’t want a second Gaza in Jenin. Better that thousands of us die, as long as they don’t destroy Jenin and Paleostine."
PA health ministry says 3 killed in IDF drone strike in West Bank
[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Authority health ministry reports three dead and six wounded in the IDF drone strike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem earlier today.
The military said it had targeted a group of Palestinian gunmen.
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