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Commando dies after being injured during West Bank operation
[IsraelTimes] Chief Inspector Yitav Lev Halevi, a commander in elite Yamam unit, was critically hurt in battle with gunmen near TulkaremA top Border Police officer critically injured during a battle with Paleostinian button men during a raid in the West Bank over the weekend succumbed to his wounds on Tuesday, authorities said. He was named by police as Chief Inspector Yitav Lev Halevi, 28, a commander in the elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit. Halevi was maimed during an operation in the West Bank town of Dayr al-Ghusun, near Tulkarem, on May 4. Halevi was taken to Beilinson Medical Center in Petah Tikva, where he was listed at death's door. "After four days in which the medical teams at Beilinson fought for the life of the Yamam soldier, who arrived at the hospital with a critical head injury, this morning the doctors had no choice but to declare [his] death," the hospital said. Halevi is the son of former Jerusalem District chief Deputy Commissioner (ret.) Yoram Halevi. Five Paleostinian button men, members of a Hamas  ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...cell responsible for the murder of an Israeli and the injury of others in recent terror attacks in the West Bank, were killed amid the raid carried out by Border Police and the Israel Defense Forces. The terror cell was planning additional attacks including bombings, the military said at the time. After coming under fire from the building, troops carried out a tactic known as "pressure cooker" that involves escalating the volume of fire directed at a building to force suspects to come out. Armored bulldozers demolished part of the building, troops fired several shoulder-launched missiles at the structure, and a Hermes 450 drone carried out two ... KABOOM!... s, according to the IDF. Troops also seized several weapons amid the raid, the military added. According to the military, the holy warriors had carried out a deadly shooting attack near the West Bank town of Bayt Lid on November 2, killing off-duty IDF reservist Sgt. First Class (res.) Elhanan Klein. In another attack, on April 7, members of the cell carried out a shooting attack and attempted boom-mobileing on the Route 55 highway, wounding two Israelis, including an off-duty soldier on a bus. Violence in the West Bank, already on the rise before October 7 — when thousands of Hamas-led holy warriors stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and abduct 252 — has escalated throughout the war sparked by the onslaught, with frequent army raids on terror groups, deadly Paleostinian attacks, and rampages by Jewish settlers in Paleostinian villages, at times also deadly. Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,700 affiliated with Hamas, the IDF has said. According to the PA health ministry, more than 490 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed amid raids or holy warriors carrying out attacks. Related: Tulkarem: 2024-04-22 IDF wraps up 50-hour operation in Nur Shams refugee camp: 10 soldiers hurt, 14 Palestinian gunmen killed Tulkarem: 2024-04-21 IDF kills Tulkarem: 2024-04-20 IDF: 4 soldiers hurt, several Palestinian gunmen killed in West Bank raid Posted by: trailing wife 2024-05-09 |
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