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| IDF troops come under fire in West Bank, shoot and kill 3 gunmen |
| 2023-03-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers came under fire by Paleostinian button men early Sunday morning in the northern West Bank, responding with gunfire that killed three assailants, the military and Paleostinian health officials said. The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that the shots had been fired toward a military post near Jit, west of Nablus, where troops of the Golani Brigade’s Reconnaissance Battalion were stationed during "proactive activity." The soldiers returned fire, "neutralizing" three of the Paleostinian assailants, the IDF said. The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said they were notified of their deaths, indicating the attackers’ bodies had been taken by the army. Another assailant turned himself in and was arrested and taken for questioning, the military said, adding that there were no casualties among the Israeli troops. The slain button men were later named by the ministry as Jihad Mohammad Shami, 24, Udai Othman Shami, 22, and Mohammad Ra’ed Dabek, 18, The arrested man was named as Ibrahim Awartani. The Nablus-based Lion’s Den terror group later claimed the button men as members. The forces seized three M-16 rifles, a handgun, and magazines that had been in the attackers’ possession, the IDF said. An image from the scene showed troops standing near a car that had apparently been used by the button men. Tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have been high for the past year, with the IDF conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks. Those tensions have ramped up even further in recent weeks amid a cycle of deadly Israeli raids and Paleostinian Dire Revenge attacks, as well as an uptick in settler violence. In a terror attack Thursday night, a Paleostinian man opened fire outside a Tel Aviv cafe, injuring three Israelis, including one critically. Early Friday morning, a Paleostinian man was rubbed out after he entered a settlement farm in the northern West Bank, armed with knives and several bombs. On Friday evening, a Paleostinian teenager who allegedly hurled a Molotov cocktail at an army post in the West Bank was rubbed out, the military and Paleostinian health officials said. And on Thursday, three 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... button men were killed after opening fire at undercover forces in the West Bank village of Jaba’. A string of Paleostinian terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank in recent months left 14 Israelis dead and several more seriously hurt. At least 80 Paleostinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, most of them while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated. |
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