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2025-02-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF carries out two drone strikes in Jenin area; Palestinians say 4 dead, including teen
[IsraelTimes] Military says strikes targeted armed terror operatives amid ongoing operation in northern West Bank

The Israeli military on Saturday said it carried out two dronezaps on terror operatives in the northern West Bank, with Paleostinians reporting four people killed and several others maimed.

One dronezap targeted a group of armed Paleostinian terror operatives in the Jenin area in the northern West Bank, the army said. Another strike, in the city of Qabatiya, near Jenin, targeted a car with several terror operatives in it.

The military said that further details would be provided later.

The Paleostinian Authority health ministry reported two dead in the dronezap in Jenin and another two dead in the strike in Qabatiya. Paleostinian officials said the strike in Jenin killed a 14-year-old.

Two other people were also taken to a hospital after being maimed in the Jenin attack, according to the Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy.

The strikes came amid a major counter-terrorism operation in the northern West Bank.

Jenin governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP that the teenager, Ahmad Sadi, and the two others "were hit by an occupation drone when they were in the street."

The ongoing IDF offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, has primarily focused on the city and refugee camp of Jenin but on Monday expanded to Tulkarem.

Visiting Jenin Wednesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed the IDF would remain in the camp even after the military operation there, "to ensure terror does not return."

The West Bank has seen a surge in violence since Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel out of 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 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip ignited the war there.

Since then troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 858 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or bully boyz carrying out attacks.

There has also been a significant uptick in settler violence against Paleostinians since the start of the war.

During the same period, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

IDF expands West Bank counterterrorism operation to town of Tamun
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it has expanded its ongoing counterterrorism operation in the northern West Bank, now in its 12th day, and troops are now operating in the town of Tamun.

Troops of the Bislamach Brigade — the IDF’s School for Infantry Corps Professions and Squad Commanders in peacetime — entered the town overnight, and have so far located several weapons, the military says.

Last week, a drone strike in Tamun killed 10 Palestinian terror operatives.

The ongoing IDF offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, has primarily focused on the city and refugee camp of Jenin but also expanded to Tulkarem last week and now to Tamun.

IDF says it targeted 3 West Bank terror cells in strikes last night, including freed prisoner
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it targeted Palestinian terrorists in three separate aerial strikes within several hours in the northern West Bank last night, including a cell that was on its way to carry out an imminent attack, confirming that it took out a prisoner set free as part of a 2023 deal with Hamas.

The military says the strike on the cell on its way to carry out a terror attack occurred in Qabatiya, with secondary explosions observed as a result of bombs that were in the car going off.

That strike, the IDF says, killed terror operatives Salah Zakarneh and Abd al-Hadi Kamil, the latter of whom was released as part of a hostage deal in November 2023.

The IDF publishes footage of the Qabatiya strike.
Video can be seen at the link.
The two other strikes occurred in Jenin, the army says, adding that they targeted two armed terror cells.

The Palestinian Authority health ministry reported two killed in the Qabatiya strike, two killed in one of the Jenin strikes, and 16-year-old Ahmad al-Sadi killed in the other Jenin strike along with others critically wounded.

IDF drone strike in West Bank said to kill Palestinian prisoner freed in 2023 deal
[IsraelTimes] One of two Palestinian gunmen killed in an IDF drone strike in the West Bank city of Qabatiya this evening is identified by Palestinian media as Abd Issam Alawneh.

Alawneh had been previously detained by Israel, and was released in the November 2023 hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.

He is the fourth Palestinian released in the November 2023 deal to have been killed by Israel.

A separate drone strike in Jenin this evening killed three more Palestinians, according to media reports.




Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-02 2025-02-02 00:17|| || Front Page|| [11155 views ]  Top

#1 "Aim for the bowl haircut"
Posted by Frank G 2025-02-02 06:10||   2025-02-02 06:10|| Front Page Top

#2 He is the fourth Palestinian released in the November 2023 deal to have been killed by Israel.

Random coincidence, or is someone keeping a list?

Given the huge number of Paleos that have been arrested for violent misbehavior and subsequently released as part of some deal, it may be impossible to swing a cat without hitting one. One the other hand, there is historical precedent for hunting such creatures down. Paging Mr. Wiesenthal to the white courtesy phone.

As for the bowl haircut, Moe Howard went pretty far with one. And from an image processing/target-acquisition point of view, it gives a nice sharp high contrast edge to lock on to.
Posted by SteveS 2025-02-02 10:08||   2025-02-02 10:08|| Front Page Top

#3 IDF terrorist hunt expands in West Bank amid fear that most released prisoners are returning to terrorism
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-02 12:19||   2025-02-02 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 He was turning his life around and hoped to be a groomer in UK.
Posted by Regular joe 2025-02-02 18:38||   2025-02-02 18:38|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Parts of him may still make it? Survey sez: "NO"
Posted by Frank G 2025-02-02 18:44||   2025-02-02 18:44|| Front Page Top

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