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West Bank: Duvdevan Unit fighters arrest four wanted individuals affiliated with the oerrorist organizations Hamas and ISIS
2026-08-24

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Duvdevan Unit Fighters Arrest Four Wanted Individuals in Benjamin Brigade: Among Them Elements Affiliated with the Terrorist Organizations Hamas and ISIS

⭕️During the past weekend, Duvdevan Unit fighters operated in a number of offensive activities across the Benjamin Brigade.

⭕️As part of the activity, the fighters arrested four wanted individuals who were engaged in promoting terrorist activities, including two saboteurs affiliated with the terrorist organization ISIS, and another saboteur affiliated with the terrorist movement Hamas.

⭕️In addition, the forces located three M16-model weapons and confiscated them.

Israeli man injured in West Bank stabbing attack; IDF arrests suspect after manhunt

[IsraelTimes] 24-year-old Elhanan Hananya in moderate condition after being stabbed repeatedly during family trip; Palestinian man shot after allegedly trying to snatch soldier’s gun in West Bank

An Israeli man was moderately hurt in a stabbing attack Sunday morning near a Paleostinian village in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley, security forces said. Following the terror attack, Israeli forces launched an hours-long manhunt, before eventually arresting a 16-year-old Paleostinian suspect in the late afternoon in the village of al-Auja in the Jordan Valley. He was handed over to the Shin Bet for questioning.

The stabbing occurred along a highway used by both Israelis and Paleostinians in al-Auja, some eight kilometers (five miles) north of Jericho. Footage of the attack showed an assailant jumping the Israeli man from behind and repeatedly stabbing him as he returned to his car after visiting a shop on the side of the West Bank highway.

According to the Magen David Adom ambulance service, the victim, a 24-year-old Israeli later identified as Elhanan Hananya, was taken to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in moderate condition. The hospital said that he was in stable, pH balanced condition and fully conscious, and was being treated in the emergency department. He suffered a broken shoulder and internal bleeding, his brothers Yosef and Shlomo Hananaya told news hounds at Shaare Zedek.

According to his brothers, Hananya, a career soldier, was on his way to Tiberias to celebrate his wedding anniversary when he was attacked. The attack occurred in front of his pregnant wife, their two daughters and his father-in-law, who were in the car when he stopped in al-Auja for cigarettes.

"When he came back to the car, there was a terrorist there who ambushed him," one of the brothers says. "When he saw my brother’s back was turned, he jumped on him and stabbed him several times. He fought him and was in a panic over the kids... the bigger daughter saw everything that happened."

The stabber then fled. Police sent forces to the scene and the IDF dispatched special forces and Israeli Air Force aircraft to hunt for him, with roadblocks set up in the area.

"The forces are interrogating suspects and conducting intelligence-gathering work to locate the terrorist," the army said prior to the suspect’s arrest.

Later Sunday afternoon, a Paleostinian man allegedly tried to snatch a soldier’s gun near the West Bank settlement of Rimonim. The IDF said that the soldier, of the Kfir Brigade’s Duchifat Battalion, returned fire and "neutralized" the assailant. Additional forces were dispatched to the scene, the army said.

Paleostinian sources told AFP that the man, Aws Akram Maatan, from the village of Burqa east of Ramallah, suffered an injury to his foot and was taken to a Jerusalem hospital for treatment. The head of the Burqa village council, Sayel Kanaan, claimed in a statement that Maatan had been shot "without justification."

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
Paleostinian health authorities said Sunday that the IDF killed a Paleostinian teenager in the West Bank. The Paleostinian health ministry said that Israeli gunfire killed Islam Ahmad Maher Ajouri, 14, in the Askar refugee camp where he lived, outside Nablus. Mohammed Abu Kashk, head of the Askar camp services committee, told AFP that the teenager was killed by Israeli forces during a raid on the camp: "There were no festivities or confrontations that would justify shooting a child and killing him."

The IDF told AFP it was verifying the information.

The IDF said soldiers of the Duvdevan Commando Unit operated in the Ramallah area and detained four Paleostinians who were wanted for "advancing terror activities." They included two affiliated with Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, and one affiliated with Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
, according to the army. The soldiers also captured three M16 assault rifles amid the raid, the IDF added.

Violence in the West Bank has escalated sharply in recent months, mostly involving settler attacks on Paleostinians, though there have also been several attacks by Paleostinian assailants on Israelis.

According to a Channel 12 report over the weekend, IDF brass has issued a warning to Israel’s politicianship that the West Bank is on the brink of a violent mostly peaceful escalation, saying that the Paleostinian public may begin to take action if settler violence is allowed to continue unabated.
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