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... Israel’s military said it killed a wanted suspect in an exchange of fire after encircling the house he was in. It said two more armed fighters who tried to escape the house were also killed in the operation, which lasted four hours and involved a "variety of means." No soldiers were maimed, it added.
The Paleostinian Health Ministry said two men in their 30s were rubbed out by Israeli forces in the Nur Shams refugee camp near the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm. It had no immediate comment on a third fatality.
Camp residents told Rooters that the two men who were shot were not inside the besieged house and that their bodies were found outside. He said Israel fired missiles at the house and bulldozed part of it before its forces withdrew.
Hours after the operation, none of the three men were claimed by any Death Eater factions.
Some 13,519 Paleostinian refugees are registered in Nur Shams camp with the UN agency for Paleostinians, many of whom hope to return to homes from which they or their ancestors fled or were expelled in the 1948 war that followed Israel’s creation.
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IDF says troops kill senior terror operative, 2 other gunmen in the West Bank
[IsraelTimes] The IDF and police say troops killed a senior terror operative and another two button men in the West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp, close to Tulkarem.
Undercover Border Police officers and IDF reservists of the 8105th Battalion operated in Nur Shams for more than four hours following intelligence information provided by the Shin Bet.
In a joint statement, the IDF and police say the troops encircled the building where the wanted Paleostinian, Moatasem Ali, was holed up, and applied a tactic known as "pressure cooker."
Ali is accused of being a senior terror operative in Nur Shams, and responsible for previous shooting attacks against IDF troops.
The statement says that after using various means, and amid a shootout, Ali was killed.
Two more button men who attempted to flee from the building where the wanted man was holed up were also killed, the IDF and police say.
The troops also recovered weapons from the building, the IDF says.
The statement says no soldiers or officers were hurt in the raid.
In other operations overnight, security forces carried out raids in the West Bank city of Jenin and in Nur Shams, the IDF said. During those activities, murderous Moslems threw bombs at soldiers as well as shot up them. Troops returned fire and engineering units uncovered improvised bombs that were placed along access routes used by security forces. During the operations, seven wanted suspects were arrested.
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in the city of Qalqilya security forces found a storage room that contained "very large amounts of materials to prepare bombs," seized weapons, and arrested two suspects.
Weapons were also found in other locations in the West Bank during raids. In the town of Ya’bad a suspect was arrested who was found to be carrying weapons, the IDF said.
Suspects arrested in the overnight raids were handed over for further interrogation.
The IDF said there were no injuries to Israeli forces.
Since the beginning of the war 3,050 suspects have been arrested in the West Bank, of whom 1,350 are affiliated with Hamas
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, the IDF said.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 300 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of those killed since October 7 were shot during festivities amid arrest raids, and many 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 months, and a handful of cases of settlers killing Paleostinians, which are still under investigation. 
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