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IDF says ‘most wanted West Bank terror operative’ killed in Nablus operation

2025-05-10

[IsraelTimes] Army says senior PIJ operative Nour Bitawi eliminated in drone strike, was planning imminent attacks

A senior 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...
operative who Israeli authorities say was planning imminent terror attacks was killed by troops Friday in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Members of the police’s elite Yamam unit, Shin Bet agents and IDF troops encircled a home in Nablus where Nour Bitawi was holed up, killing him along with another terror operative, the military said.

Bitawi had "advanced significant terror activity, and was involved in guiding, financing and carrying out terror attacks against Israeli citizens and security forces," the IDF, Shin Bet and police said in a joint statement, adding that he also was in contact with Hamas
Hamas

..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
officials in the 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 a rusty 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...
Strip and abroad.

"Bitawi was responsible for the flow of terror funds to Jenin and the other villages in the area, and in this framework, acted to recruit and arm murderous Moslems to carry out attacks against IDF troops. At the same time, he worked to build bombs and plant them in the Jenin area," the statement said.

The IDF said Bitawi had been wanted for many months and was identified fleeing the Jenin area to Nablus, where he was ultimately located and killed.

The Yamam officers carried out a tactic known as "pressure cooker," which involves escalating the volume of fire against a building to flush suspects out. The officers used an explosive-laden drone to eliminate him inside the building, alongside another operative, according to officials.

A military official described Bitawi as "the number one most wanted" terror operative in the West Bank.

Since late January, the IDF has been carrying out a major offensive in the northern West Bank, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, focusing mainly on the areas of Jenin and Tulkarem.

The offensive followed a spike in West Bank violence since October 7, 2023. Since the Hamas onslaught, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or murderous Moslems carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 51 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

On Wednesday, three Israeli soldiers were maimed in attacks carried out by Paleostinians in the northern and southern West Bank.

IDF says Palestinian who planned attack was shot and detained in West Bank yesterday

[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops shot and detained a Palestinian, who was allegedly planning to carry out a terror attack, during operations in the northern West Bank yesterday.

The suspect, who the IDF says was involved in building explosive devices, was shot by members of the Duvdevan commando unit in his home in the town of Tamun. His condition is not immediately known.

The army says the troops came under fire during the operation, though none were injured.

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