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| IDF troops kill Palestinian terrorist who murdered Israeli guard in West Bank last year |
| 2025-11-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] Army says Sultan al-Ghani, who fled after killing Gidon Peri in August 2024, was slain in exchange of fire with commando unit south of Jenin A Paleostinian terrorist who killed an Israeli security guard at a West Bank industrial park last year was killed by troops in a firefight on Tuesday morning, according to the Israel Defense Forces. On August 18, 2024, the assailant, Sultan al-Ghani, fatally maimed security guard Gidon Peri, 38, at the Bar-On industrial park near Kedumim by attacking him with a hammer, before snatching his handgun and fleeing the scene. The military said Tuesday that IDF troops and Shin Bet officers operated in an area south of Jenin overnight, during which the forces nabbed five suspected accomplices of al-Ghani. Then Tuesday morning, soldiers of the Duvdevan commando unit encircled a building where al-Ghani was holed up and he was killed in an exchange of fire, the IDF said. The military said that during scans in the building afterward, the soldiers found several firearms, an bomb and ammunition. Peri was on duty as a civilian security guard in the industrial park, located in the northern West Bank, at the time of the attack. He was hit in the head with a hammer and taken at death's door to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where his death was later declared. A military source said at the time that al-Ghani fled initially in a car and then on foot after grabbing Peri’s handgun. Al-Ghani had a work permit to enter Israeli-controlled areas of the West Bank and he worked in a factory in the industrial park, according to defense sources. The operation on Tuesday came hours after another Paleostinian assailant, who killed two soldiers last year and had been on the run since, was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus. On Monday evening, Abdel-Raouf Shatyeh — who was accused of ramming his vehicle into an Israeli army post in May 2024, killing Staff Sgt. Eliya Hilel and Staff Sgt. Diego Shvisha Harsaj — was killed by counterterrorism police in the West Bank. The IDF and Shin Bet said that they had been working to track down Shatyeh ever since he expeditiously departed at a goodly pace of the attack in 2024. |
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