Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Military says it targeted group throwing explosives at troops in Nur Shams refugee camp, where overnight raid sparked An Israeli dronezap killed six Paleostinians during an overnight raid near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank early Wednesday morning, Paleostinian Authority health officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that it launched a counter-terror raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp overnight, where it arrested three wanted Paleostinians and seized a dozen weapons.
During the raid, the military said it struck the group of Paleostinian button men who threw explosives at troops. Military sources said the IDF was aware of six Paleostinians being killed in the strike.
The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy Society said an additional four people were maimed during the incident, three of them seriously, but did not specify if they were armed.
Troops entered Tulkarem and the Nur Shams refugee camp with bulldozers and military vehicles. Violent festivities then broke out in the city.
The IDF said engineering vehicles uncovered and destroyed bombs hidden under and on the sides of roads in the area.
The area around Tulkarem has been of heightened concern in recent days after residents of the neighboring Israeli local council of Bat Hefer reported hearing digging sounds under their homes, prompting a search for tunnels.
In a raid on Nur Shams overnight Monday, security forces seized makeshift rockets and other weapons, the military said.
The discovery was not the first time rockets have been located in the West Bank. Throughout the year, there have been several failed attempt
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Curses! Foiled again!...
ed launches of rockets from Jenin, and troops found makeshift rockets in the city. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
such a discovery in Tulkarem is noteworthy, as it is far closer to Israel’s major population centers in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
Violence in the West Bank has soared since October 7, when thousands of Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...-led turbans burst into Israel from the land, air and sea in a shock assault in which they massacred more than 1,200 people and seized some 240 hostages. In response to the deadliest attack in the country’s history, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas from 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 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
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip, where the terror group has ruled since 2007.
Since October 7, troops have arrested more than 2,550 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,300 affiliated with Hamas. According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, some 300 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time.
Based on military estimates, the vast majority of those killed since October 7 were shot 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 months, and a handful of cases of settlers killing Paleostinians, which are still under investigation.
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