An Israeli soldier was killed and another was seriously maimed by a roadside kaboom during a counterterrorism raid in the West Bank on Monday morning, the military said.
The slain soldier was named by the Israel Defense Forces as Sgt. First Class (res.) Yehuda Geto, 22, from Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Two Paleostinians were also killed during attempts to evacuate the two from the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem.
The two soldiers were inside a Panther armored personnel carrier when the bomb went
kaboom!. Geto was the driver, and the seriously maimed soldier is a commander in the Duvdevan commando unit.
According to an initial IDF probe, the vehicle was waiting in an area of Nur Shams where bombs were not believed by the army to have been planted. Other Duvdevan troops had disembarked from the APC to carry out operations on foot.
Armed groups in the West Bank frequently plant improvised bombs under roads to attack Israeli forces carrying out arrest raids. The military regularly rips up roads with armored bulldozers as a precautionary measure before entering with lighter-armed vehicles.
In this case, the army did not rip up the road where the APC was waiting.
The bomb was believed by the IDF to have been improvised, using dozens of kilograms of kaboom. The APC was disabled by the large blast, and later towed out of Nur Shams.
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...
terror group grabbed credit for the attack.
While trying to extract the two soldiers, the IDF attempted to carry out a dronezap against a group of button men in the area, though the missile did not explode, the probe found.
Later, several button men attempted to tamper with the missile, setting it off. The explosion killed a Paleostinian woman who was standing nearby, according to the military probe.
Separately, Duvdevan troops rubbed out a Paleostinian gunman who tried to open fire on the forces, the IDF said.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry confirmed that a woman and a teenager had been killed. Wafa, the official Paleostinian news agency, named the slain Paleostinians as Nisreen Khaled Damiri, 47, and Muhammad Ali Sarhan, 15.
Wafa reported that the woman was hit by shrapnel from the drone missile, and the teenager was shot in the head.
The incident came days after a similar attack in the Jenin area, in which a soldier was killed and 16 others were hurt when Islamic Jihad operatives detonated bombs against army vehicles during a raid.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,200 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,750 affiliated with Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 540 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed during raids or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 21 Israelis, including security personnel, have been killed in Paleostinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another five members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank, including in Monday’s incident.