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Commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Tulkarm Battalion, 5 more killed by the Israeli Air Force
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Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade is the armed wing of Fatah.


Six Palestinians said killed in IDF drone strike, raid in West Bank

[IsraelTimes] IDF investigating reports that an 80-year-old woman was killed during clashes in Nablus; top terror operative killed in Tulkarem strike

At least six Paleostinians were killed and several more injured in raids by Israeli forces in the West Bank, authorities said Thursday, as the military sought to clamp down on rising terror activity across the territory.

At least one civilian, an 80-year-old woman, was among those killed, the Paleostinian Authority said.

In Tulkarem, a dronezap killed four Paleostinian button men, according to the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet. Another three Paleostinians were seriously injured, according to the PA health ministry.

During the Tulkarem raid, troops used bulldozers to destroy infrastructure and seal off entrances to the city, according to the Ottoman Turkish Anadolu news agency.

The IDF and Shin Bet said later Thursday that the dronezap had killed a senior terror operative who was being financed by Iran, alongside three other Paleostinian button men.

According to the Shin Bet, the target of the strike was Tariq al-Doush, who it identified as one of the commanders of a terror network in Tulkarem.

The Shin Bet said that al-Doush worked to recruit operatives in the past year to carry out attacks, who would be armed with Iranian financing via operatives in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
The operatives in Lebanon who were in contact with al-Doush are members of the Makdah family, who the Shin Bet has accused in the past of working with the IRGC to advance terror attacks in the West Bank.

The network that al-Doush headed was involved in several shooting attacks against IDF troops, checkpoints, and Israeli towns near the West Bank security barrier, the agency said, adding that the network planned to carry out attacks in Israel as well.

Alongside al-Doush, three other button men were killed, including Dosem al-Awfi, who the Shin Bet said was a prominent member of the Tulkarem terror network.

Elsewhere in the West Bank on Thursday, Paleostinian officials charged that Israeli forces had killed two people, one of them an 80-year-old woman, and injured several others during a raid near Nablus.

The military said that it was looking into the reported deaths, without providing additional information.

The PA health ministry in Ramallah said Halima Abu Leil, 80, was fatally shot in the chest and leg during a raid in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy confirmed her death after transporting her to the hospital.

A short while later, the ministry announced the death of a second Paleostinian, a 25-year-old man.

Both the Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
 terror group and the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, the armed wing of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
’s Fatah party, claimed that the second person killed, Qusai Sarouji, was a fighter in their respective terror organizations.

At least four others were maimed during the raid, it said, including two men aged 21 and 22, a 65-year-old man who suffered gunshot wounds, and another individual injured by bullet shrapnel.

The Red Islamic Thingy also accused Israeli forces of firing at its ambulances, "obstructing the delivery of humanitarian and medical services inside the camp."

There was no immediate comment on the accusation by the IDF.

The army said Thursday it had operated in the West Bank to survey the homes of three Death Eaters responsible for a deadly terror attack earlier this year, ahead of their potential demolitions.

In August, 23-year-old Yonatan Deutsch was killed near the Mehola Junction on Route 90, the main north-south artery in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley. Hamas took responsibility for the attack.

"The mapping was carried out in preparation for examining the possibility of demolishing the terrorist’s house," the army said.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the PA health ministry, more than 716 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 Death Eaters carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 42 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
Posted by: Fred 2024-12-20
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