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IDF: 3 terrorists slain in Jenin dronestrike, including gunny who murdered Israeli last year
2024-03-21
[IsraelTimes] Officials say among those targeted was man who killed Meir Tamari in terror shooting in West Bank last year, suspects also involved in recent attempted suicide kaboom

Three Paleostinian terror operatives were killed and another was seriously maimed in an Israeli dronezap on a car in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday afternoon, the military and Paleostinian health officials said.

The slain button men were named by Paleostinian media as Ahmed Barakat, Muhammad Fayed and Mahmoud Rahhal. Seriously maimed in the strike was Muhammad Hawashin.

According to the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency, the four were 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...
operatives.

The IDF said Barakat carried out two major shooting attacks last year, including the killing of Meir Tamari near the West Bank settlement of Hermesh in May 2023, and another attack in the area in June 2023 that maimed four soldiers and one civilian.

Hawashin was identified by the Shin Bet as a commander of a local PIJ wing in Jenin.

According to the IDF and Shin Bet, Barakat and Hawashin were also behind an attempt to send a jacket wallah into Israel on March 11, and directed a shooting and bombing attack against troops near the Homesh outpost on March 8, in which seven troops were maimed.

The IDF released footage showing the strike on the vehicle the four terror operatives were in.

Surveillance camera footage circulated online also showed the moment of the strike.

The Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
came as security forces in Jerusalem and the West Bank have been on high alert since Ramadan started last week. Tensions were already high between Israelis and Paleostinians due to the war between Israel and Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
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 Hamas with 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
, triggered by the October 7 massacre, which saw Hamas gunnies murder about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnap 253.

Since October 7, the IDF has said troops have arrested some 3,500 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,500 affiliated with Hamas.

Paleostinians say over 400 people have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since hostilities broke out, most while carrying out attacks or during festivities with IDF troops during nightly raids that have largely concentrated on a handful of areas in the northern West Bank. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
killings of innocent bystanders have also been alleged.
Related:
Jenin: 2024-03-19 Israeli forces destroyed 300 houses in West Bank: UN
Jenin: 2024-03-14 Palestinians say 4 shot dead by security forces in Jenin, near Jerusalem
Jenin: 2024-03-12 Italy mulls Israel’s extradition request for arrested Palestinian terror suspect
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