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| Palestinians say 11 killed, 102 hurt in Nablus clashes between gunmen, Israeli forces |
| 2023-02-23 |
| [IsraelTimes] Firefights erupt as military surrounds house where senior Lion’s Den member was hiding out with two other button men Ten Paleostinians were killed as heavy shootouts broke out between Israeli forces and button men Wednesday in Nablus after the military entered the northern West Bank city to arrest a number of terror suspects. The Paleostinian Authority’s health ministry said that in addition to 11 people confirmed dead, 102 Paleostinians were hurt in the festivities, seven of them seriously. It did not specify the involvement among those killed and maimed. The ministry identified them as Adnan Saabe Baara, 72, Anan Shawkat Annab, 66, Abdul Hadi Abdul Aziz Ashqar, 61, Mohammad Farid Shaaban, 16, Tamer Nimr Minawi, 33, Mohammad Khaled Anbousi, 25, Musab Munir Awais, 26, Hussam Bassam Isleem, 24, and Mohammad Abdul Fattah, 23, Walid Riyad Dkhail, 23, and Jaser Jamil Qanier, 23. The Israel Defense Forces said troops had entered Nablus to arrest Isleem, a senior member of the Lion’s Den terror group, who was allegedly the third member of a cell that killed Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch during a shooting attack in October. The other two were detained last week. A military source told The Times of Israel that soldiers surrounded a home where three suspects, all members of the Lion’s Den terror group, were holed up, demanding they turn themselves in. Officers of the elite police Yamam unit fired missiles at the building, to flush the men out in a technique known as "pressure cooker." Two of the suspects were killed inside the building, while the third was rubbed out while he tried to escape. Soldiers later found two firearms and ammunition in the building, the IDF said. The IDF named the other two Lion’s Den members as Fattah and Dkhail. The military said Fattah was also affiliated with the Paleostinian 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... , and all three men had participated in shooting attacks against Israeli forces in the northern West Bank. Lion’s Den and the Islamic Jihad later claimed six of the fatalities as members. Clashes erupted elsewhere in the city. The IDF said troops came under "massive gunfire," and responded with live fire at button men. The IDF was anticipating a response to the deadly raid, a senior military official told news hounds. "The resistance in 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... is watching the enemy’s escalating crimes against our people," Abu Obeida, front man of the Gaza-ruling Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group’s military wing, said in a statement. No Israeli troops were hurt in Wednesday’s raid, which came after a similar daytime operation in Jenin last month when ten Paleostinians, including an elderly woman, were killed amid fierce festivities between Israeli troops and button men. That raid was met with international expressions of concern and Paleostinian calls for outside intervention. A day later, seven people were rubbed out in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood in the deadliest Paleostinian terror attack since 2008. |
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