[IsraelTimes] Military says soldiers exchanged fire with button men during operation; gunfire, blasts and smoke seen and heard in footage from village near Nablus
The Israel Defense Force said Friday it conducted an arrest operation in the northern West Bank in the morning, nabbing two terror suspects and exchanging fire with button men in the Far’a refugee camp north of Nablus. Paleostinian authorities said six Paleostinians were killed in the festivities.
The military said it arrested five suspects throughout the West Bank’s Jordan Valley region, confiscating weapons and ammunition.
It said that in Far’a troops came under fire and killed a number of button men.
The Paleostinian Wafa news agency said an unspecified number of people were also injured.
Gunfire, blasts and smoke could be seen and heard in footage from the scene.
Since the October 7 onslaught by Hamas
 ...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
against Israel, in which 3,000 snuffies slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, Israeli troops have arrested over 2,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,100 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 200 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli forces, and in a few cases settlers.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of the 200 Paleostinians killed since October 7 were rubbed out during festivities amid arrest raids. Around 60 percent of them, according to data seen by The Times of Israel, were armed with either a firearm or an bomb.
The IDF is aware of at least three cases of uninvolved Paleostinians being killed by troops in recent weeks, and a handful of cases of settlers killing Paleostinians, that are still under investigation. 
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