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| 2025-07-19 |
| Army says homes of 3 Palestinian attackers in West Bank razed [IsraelTimes] Overnight, the IDF says it demolished the homes of three Palestinian terrorists who carried out deadly shooting attacks. The homes in the West Bank town of Qabatiya belonged to Muhammad Zakarna, Mohammed Nazal, and Wael Lahlouh. Zakarna and Nazal carried out a deadly terror shooting attack in the West Bank village of al-Funduq in January, along with a third gunman, Qutaiba al-Shalabi. The attack on January 6 killed off-duty police officer Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein and civilians Rachel Cohen and Aliza Raiz. All three terrorists, who according to the IDF were affiliated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Islamic State jihadist movement, were later killed by Israeli forces. Lahlouh, a member of Hamas, carried out a deadly shooting attack in the Jordan Valley on August 11, 2024, killing civilian Yonatan Deutsch and wounding another man. Lahlouh was also later killed in a drone strike in Jenin. Suspected Palestinian arms dealer killed during attempted arrest in West Bank — police [IsraelTimes] Undercover Border Police officers killed a wanted Palestinian during an overnight raid in the West Bank, a police spokesperson says. Police say the officers had sought to arrest the Palestinian, who was suspected of terror activity and weapons dealing in the village of Wadi al-Far’a near Tubas. “The undercover force covertly approached the wanted man, who tried to escape from the troops, who in response fired shots at his lower body and then arrested him,” the spokesperson says. The wanted man was later declared dead by medical officials who were treating him, according to police. Police say the officers found a hunting rifle and other military equipment at the building where the suspect had been. In a separate overnight raid, police say undercover officers detained a terror suspect in Jericho and took him to the Shin Bet for questioning. Army excavator thought stolen from Gaza border found in West Bank town — police [IsraelTimes] An army excavator suspected of having been stolen from mustering grounds on the Gaza border was found in the Palestinian West Bank City of Huwara yesterday, police say. The piece of heavy machinery was spotted by Border Police officers returning to their base after take part in operations along the Syria border, who stopped to investigate and found it had seemingly been taken from southern Israel, a police statement says. A resident of Huwara in his 50s was arrested as a suspect. There is no comments from the Israel Defense Forces, which has struggled for years to crack down on theft of military equipment, though usually of more diminutive items. The border cops had been one of several units scrambled to the Golan Heights yesterday to deal with chaos as Druze spurred by fighting in southern Syria tore through the border fence, with some entering Syria, and others crossing from Syria into Israel. |
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