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IDF drone strike kills 4 Palestinians who attacked troops in West Bank’s Jenin
[IsraelTimes] Forces carry out morning raid in which they arrest dozens of terror suspects, seize weapons and destroy bomb-making lab, command center and tunnel shafts
An Israeli dronezap killed four Paleostinians who had hurled bombs toward Israel Defense Forces troops carrying out an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday morning, according to the army and Paleostinian officials.
The IDF said it was operating in Jenin and the adjacent refugee camp to detain wanted Paleostinians suspected of involvement in terror activities.
It said there were festivities between troops and Paleostinian button men and suspects hurling explosives at them.
A dronezap was carried out against a group of Paleostinians hurling the explosives, according to the IDF, which said it was aware of several armed Paleostinians who were killed and maimed in the festivities and the strike.
The military published footage showing the dronezap and the hurling of explosives that preceded it.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said four Paleostinians had been killed by Israeli forces in Jenin. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said they were killed in the dronezap on the Old City.
The IDF said troops detained dozens of suspects during the raid and seized firearms, bombs and other weapons.
It added that the forces also found and destroyed a bomb-making lab, as well as a command center used by local terror operatives and several tunnel shafts.
Since the October 7 onslaught by Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...against Israel — in which 3,000 Death Eaters slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians — Israeli troops have arrested over 2,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,100 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 280 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli forces, and in a few cases settlers.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of the 280 Paleostinians killed since October 7 were rubbed out during festivities amid arrest raids, and many of them, according to data seen by The Times of Israel, were armed with either a firearm or an bomb.
The IDF is aware of at least three cases of uninvolved Paleostinians being killed by troops in recent weeks, and a handful of cases of settlers killing Paleostinians, that are still under investigation.
| Update from the Times of Israel at 1:30 a.m. ET: |
According to Palestinian health authorities, seven people were killed in the fighting that broke out early Tuesday as troops raided the Jenin refugee camp and carried out drone strikes against suspected terror targets.
Aside from the four people killed announced Tuesday morning and the man who died of his wounds overnight, the Palestinian toll includes two other deaths on Tuesday: a man shot in the leg and an ill 13-year-old boy, both of whom they say died after being prevented from reaching a hospital.
Fighting in the eponymous refugee camp adjacent to Jenin is continuing Wednesday morning according to Palestinian reports and footage shared online.
Schools in the area are being shuttered and students are being switched to distance learning in light of the fighting, the official Palestinian news outlet WAFA says.
There’s no immediate comment from the IDF.