 JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli military raid on a West Bank refugee camp left five terrorists militants dead Wednesday and an Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed to death in Jerusalem - an eruption of violence a day after Israel completed its evacuation of 25 settlements.
At the Tulkarem refugee camp, Israeli soldiers surrounded a house and exchanged fire with terrorists militants inside and outside, witnesses said. The bodies of the four dead terrorists were brought to the Tulkarem hospital an hour after the incident. Residents said they were members of Islamic Jihad. A fifth Palestinian later died of injuries, Israel Radio reported.
| Ah, the sucking chest wound. |
Israeli military officials identified the terrorist Palestinians involved in the confrontation as top local leaders of the Islamic Jihad, responsible for the last two suicide bombings in Israel - in Tel Aviv in February and Netanya in July.
Earlier in Jerusalem, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed two young ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Old City, police said, calling it a terror attack. One of the victims later died of his wounds. The terrorist assailant escaped. Israeli media reported that the dead man was a young seminary student from Britain. His name was not released. |