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IDF: 4 soldiers hurt, several Palestinian gunmen killed in West Bank raid
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians say top Islamic Jihad Several Paleostinian button men were killed and four soldiers were maimed during a counter-terrorism raid in the West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp, close to Tulkarem, the military said Friday afternoon. Paleostinian media said a senior 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... The Israel Defense Forces said its troops and Border Police officers raided Nur Shams overnight, during which several wanted Paleostinians were detained, bombs were discovered, and several button men were killed in festivities throughout the morning. Paleostinian media outlets report that a senior Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Muhammad Jaber, known as Abu Shuja’a, was killed in the raid. He was the commander of PIJ’s local wing in Tulkarem, the reports said. The reports also named a second person killed, identifying him as as 30-year-old Salim Ghannam. At least on other person was injured. The Paleostinian health ministry in Ramallah also said that a Qais Fathi Nasrallah, 16, was killed. The official Paleostinian news agency Wafa said he died after being "shot in the head by Israeli live gunfire." It was unclear when he actually died. The army said it scanned buildings and used bulldozers to rip up roads where bombs were suspected to have been planted. An officer of the Marom Brigade and a soldier of the brigade’s elite LOTAR unit were moderately injured, and two soldiers of the Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit were lightly hurt amid the operation, the IDF said. Since October 7, Israeli troops have arrested some 3,850 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,650 affiliated with Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,, according to the IDF. The Paleostinian Authority health ministry has said more than 450 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men or Posted by: trailing wife 2024-04-20 |
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