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Israel's full cabinet approves long-awaited cease-fire deal with Hamas

2025-01-18

[NYPOST] Israel's full Cabinet on Saturday approved the long-awaited cease-fire deal with Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
that will halt the fighting in 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 a rusty 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
and allow for the release of dozens of hostages held captive by the terrorist group for 15 months.

Prime Minister's Benjamin Netanyahu's 33-member cabinet signed off on the deal hours after the smaller security cabinet voted to move forward with the agreement that could open the door to permanent peace in the Paleostinian territory.

The cabinet debated for hours into early Saturday and well past the start of the Jewish Sabbath — an emphasis on the importance of the situation — before the high-stakes deal was accepted.

Macron says two French-Israelis among 33 hostages to be released by Hamas in Gaza deal
[IsraelTimes] French President Emmanuel Macron says two French-Israeli citizens, Ofer Calderon and Ohad Yahalomi, are on the list of 33 hostages slated to be released by Hamas in the first stage of a ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Macron’s announcement comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that the release of hostages held in Gaza since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel is expected to begin on Sunday as planned.

“Our fellow citizens Ofer Calderon and Ohad Yahalomi are on the list of 33 hostages to be freed in the first phase of the Gaza accord,” Macron says in a social media post.

“We remain mobilized without pause to ensure their return to their families,” he writes.

Notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi to be freed in first phase of hostage-ceasefire deal
[IsraelTimes] Notorious Fatah terrorist Zakaria Zubeidi, who was part of a prison break from a high-security detention facility in northern Israel in 2021 before he and the other escapees were again apprehended, is included on the Justice Ministry’s list of Palestinian security prisoners that Israel is slated to release in the first stage of the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.

The list in Hebrew published online states that Zubeidi will not be sent abroad, allowing him to return home to the northern West Bank city of Jenin, where he was the commander of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

The IDF last year killed his son Mohammed alongside several other gunmen in a drone strike, describing the younger Zubeidi as “prominent terrorist from the Jenin area,” which has been a hotbed of terror activity over the past year.

Abbas: PA ready to assume ‘full responsibility’ in Gaza Strip when ceasefire begins
[IsraelTimes] President of Palestinian Authority, which isn’t a party to Israel-Hamas deal, said to issue 4-page document outlining the plans of his West Bank-based government for ruling Gaza.

Nobody cares, guys — nobody wants you, not even your own people in the West Bank.

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East Jerusalem resident charged with plot to attack hostage families’ protest

2024-10-19

[IsraelTimes] Ibrahim Al Ramadi, 22, from Sheikh Jarrah, contacted terror operatives in the West Bank with intent to kill demonstrators at weekly Tel Aviv rally, was arrested September 17

A Paleostinian resident of East Jerusalem was arrested and indicted after he was found to be planning a terror attack against a protest calling for the return of Israelis and foreigners held hostage by Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
in 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 a rusty 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
, the Israel Police and Shin Bet announced on Friday.

According to the indictment, filed by the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, Ibrahim Al Ramadi, a 22-year-old from Sheikh Jarrah, planned to attack civilian demonstrators at one of the weekly Tel Aviv rallies calling on the government to reach a hostage deal.

The rallies, led by families of hostages, have been held weekly since the Hamas terror group launched its October 7, 2023, attack, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages into Gaza.

Al Ramadi was arrested at his home on September 17, a month before news of the arrest became public.

An image posted to social media by an anti-Israel account days after the suspect’s arrest appeared to match his description.

According to the security forces, the suspect made contact with a Hamas operative for help planning the attack, meant as Dire Revenge for Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas.

He also met with a member of the Tulkarem Brigades terror group for help with the attack, Hebrew media reported, citing the indictment.

The suspect also considered carrying out a shooting attack against soldiers, targeting public transportation, or kidnapping Israelis, Hebrew media reported.

He had written a will and opened a group on social media called "Soldiers of God," for those seeking to carry out terror attacks.

The statement from the police and Shin Bet came just over a week after they announced another foiled plot, in which five Israelis linked to the 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....
group sought to bring down the iconic Azrieli Mall in Tel Aviv.

On Tuesday, a policeman was killed and four people were maimed when a terrorist opened fire along the Route 4 highway north of the coastal city of Ashdod.

And last week, a stabbing attack in the central city of Hadera killed six and maimed several more.

Hamas in recent months has also called for a renewal of suicide kabooms, a tactic that killed hundreds of Israelis during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s but has become rare in the decades since, following the construction of a security barrier around the West Bank.

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IDF Special Forces 'Mista'arvim' went undercover today in Nablus and eliminated four Palestinian terrorists, including Commander Issam al-Salaj

2024-10-10

[X]

The IDF Special Forces “Mista’arvim” went undercover today in Nablus and eliminated four Palestinian terrorists, including Commander Issam al-Salaj.

Heroes. pic.twitter.com/a6TuAbjRFS
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 9, 2024

The Four Terrorists with the Balata Battalion of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, including its Commander Issam al-Salaj, who were Eliminated earlier by the Israeli Special Forces Operation in the City of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/mxfvKc2YSt
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 9, 2024

[IsraelTimes] Local Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade leader, who reportedly survived June 2023 raid, killed in daylight shooting; Israel said to believe armed suspects were planning terror attack

Undercover Israeli forces opened fire on a car in the West Bank city of Nablus, killing five terror suspects, authorities said Wednesday.

Among those killed in the broad daylight shooting near central Nablus was the long-sought leader of the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade terror group in the nearby Balata refugee camp, according to police. He was named in reports as Issam al-Salaj.

The Israel Police said commandos from the Yamam counter-terror unit had been operating in Nablus when they opened fire on the terror suspects.

"The Yamam forces eliminated five armed bully boyz who posed a threat to their lives," police said.

According to police, the unit had been in Nablus as part of an arrest operation targeting terror suspects, backed by the Israel Defense Forces, Shin Bet security service and Border Police force.

No Israeli forces were maimed, police said.

The Paleostinian health ministry said four men were killed in the raid and a fifth person was hospitalized with bullet shrapnel wounds. His condition was not given.

Footage of the shooting shared on social media appeared to show a small group of undercover officers with automatic rifles opening fire on a car at close range while standing on a busy street, after apparently emerging from another car with Paleostinian plates. Several onlookers could be seen watching the killings.

An unnamed security source quoted by the Kan public broadcaster said the occupants of the car had been high-ranking terror operatives who were planning an attack.

Police did not identify the other wanted Paleostinians, but said they had been "involved in carrying out and planning terror operations against civilians and the IDF."

Salaj had reportedly been the target of a failed June 2023 raid in Nablus, managing to escape with only injuries after a firefight with Israeli forces who had surrounded his home. A Paleostinian teen with mental disabilities was killed during the standoff.

Nablus and the adjacent Balata camp have been one of the several flashpoints in the northern West Bank where Israel has intensified efforts against Paleostinian terror groups.

The raids have largely targeted Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
and allied groups, but have also sought to clamp down on the al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigades, which is linked to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
’s Fatah party.

The shooting came hours after a terrorist stabbed several people in the Israeli city of Hadera, wounding six, in the second major terror attack this week following a deadly shooting in Beersheba on Sunday. In both instances, the perpetrators were Israeli citizens.

According to the PA, more than 716 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli troops since October 7, 2023, when the IDF stepped up anti-terror operations.

The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or bully boyz carrying out attacks.

Troops have also arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.

IDF says Palestinian suspect tried to grab gun from soldier while being treated yesterday

[IsraelTimes] The IDF says a Palestinian suspect was shot yesterday after resisting arrest at the Tarqumiyah crossing from the West Bank into Israel, and that while being treated, he tried to grab a firearm from a soldier. According to the army, IDF forces spotted a suspect at the Tarqumiyah crossing, in the South Hebron hills, and tried to detain him. The man resisted arrest and was shot in the leg as a result.

“While receiving medical treatment due to the shooting, the terrorist tried to grab a gun from the military force that was accompanying him,” but was prevented from so doing, the IDF says.

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West Bank: Commander of the Nablus Battalion of the Islamic Jihad, Abdel Hakim Shahin, no longer requires oxygen

2024-10-02

[X] Israel’s relentless, near-nightly raids since — and before — 10/7 is the reason why the West Bank did not rise up in revolt simultaneous with either the Hamas massacre or the Hezbollah as their Iranian paymasters had planned. Sucks for them.

Successfully Eliminated by the IDF: Commander of the Nablus Battalion of the Islamic Jihad, Abdel Hakim Shahin.

Good riddance. Hell awaits. pic.twitter.com/Jwp5vjDZE6
— Vivid.🇮🇱 (@VividProwess) October 1, 2024

Four soldiers injured, one seriously in Nablus firefight

[IsraelTimes] 3 other members of Duvdevan unit moderately hurt during battle, gunman killed ; terror operative slain amid series of raids across West Bank, 6 suspects arrested

A commando was seriously wounded during clashes in the West Bank overnight, the Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday, and three other troops in the Duvdevan unit were moderately hurt in a firefight in the Balata refugee camp adjacent to Nablus in the northern West Bank.

Troops had been attempting to make an arrest at a building in the camp as part of an operation that began Sunday night, when they were fired on from inside. One gunman was killed and another wounded, according to the IDF.

Forces found IEDs, a pistol, ammunition, and weapons parts in civilian buildings in the area, including a cafe and stores, the statement said.

Elsewhere, the army said, troops killed a Palestinian accused by Israel of planning and carrying out attacks on troops in the area. A statement from the army said Abed Shaheen had recently attempted to put together a cell to attack soldiers near Nablus. During the operation security forces seized weapons used by the gunman, the statement said. The Palestinian Authority health ministry confirmed Shaheen’s death and said he was 33.

Six suspects were arrested during overnight raids in the northern West Bank town of Silwad, the army said.

Troops also operated in the towns of Dayr Ibzi’ and Kafr Ni’ma and two guns were found in the town of Bani Naim, the IDF said.

The Israeli military intensified its near-daily raids across the West Bank in the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 attack, in operations aimed at dismantling Palestinian terror groups including Hamas.

Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 33 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.

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Gunman from Lion’s Den terror group said killed in IDF raid near Nablus in West Bank

2024-05-13

[IsraelTimes] A Paleostinian gunman was reportedly killed by Israeli troops during a raid in the West Bank’s Balata camp, near Nablus overnight.

He is named by Paleostinian media as Samer Rummaneh, a member of the Lion’s Den terror group.

The IDF says troops returned fire at button men amid a counter-terrorism raid in Balata.

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Italy mulls Israel’s extradition request for arrested Palestinian terror suspect

2024-03-12

[IsraelTimes] Man is one of three nabbed and suspected of setting up cell linked to al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, terror group tied to Abbas’s Fatah party

Italian police have arrested three Paleostinians based in central Italia who they said were planning attacks in an unspecified country, a police statement said on Monday, with Israel requesting the extradition of one of them.

The three men, living in l’Aquila, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) northeast of Rome, had set up a cell linked to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the statement said.

The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is an armed offshoot of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s secular nationalist Fatah party. It is considered a terrorist group by Israel, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, and the United States.

Police said the three Paleostinians had been charged with criminal conspiracy for terrorism purposes or subversion of the democratic order, which carries jail terms of up to 15 years.

"The suspects engaged in proselytism and propaganda... and planned attacks, including suicide kabooms, against civilian and military targets on foreign territory," police said.

One of the three men is wanted by Israel, which is at war with the Paleostinian terror group Hamas
Hamas

...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, and an Italian court is examining an extradition request for him, the statement added.

In a separate statement, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi hailed the arrest of "three dangerous terrorists" and said Italia was always on high alert against extremism and radicalization.

There was no immediate comment by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

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Al-Quds Brigades release details on latest resistance operations

2024-02-27

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, announced Sunday evening that a Zionist soldier had been sniped by the resistance snipers south of the Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Earlier on Sunday, the Al-Quds Brigades said that they bombed with mortar shells a position of enemy soldiers in the vicinity of the Abu Absal Gate, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

For its part, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced that its fighters were engaged in fierce clashes with the Zionist enemy soldiers and their military vehicles with machine guns in the Al-Taqaddum axis in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza.

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Good Morning

2024-01-18

Director of California LGBTQ
center busted in child sex sting

01/18/2024

Pakistan expels Iranian ambassador after air strike

showing the ham 52.

Israel-Palestine-Jordan Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades mourns the death of five fighters killed in an Israeli airstrike while they traveled in a vehicle inside the West Bank city of Nablus		Iraq Iraq lodges a formal complaint against Iran in the UN Security Council and the United Nations
Syria-Lebanon-Iran Iranian Baloch channel is reporting a big explosion has been heard in Dashtiari town (near Chabahar, in Iran) near the Pakistan-Iran border		Arabia @USNavy just launched Tomahawks targeting missile launch sites in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen
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Director of California LGBTQ
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Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades mourns the death of five fighters killed in an Israeli airstrike while they traveled in a vehicle inside the West Bank city of Nablus

2024-01-18

[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Next time stay home, guys. I realize that would bring the IDF to your door to arrest you, but at least the car would not be destroyed.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades mourns the death of five fighters killed in an Israeli airstrike while they traveled in a vehicle inside the West Bank city of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/GiBoFBH2xR
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) January 17, 2024

Update from the Times of Israel at 1:15pm ET:

Terror cell planning ‘imminent attack’ killed in West Bank drone strike, IDF says

Military says squad leader targeted in Balata camp received financing and instructions from Iran; soldier seriously wounded; another strike carried out in Tulkarem

Members of a cell headed by a top terror leader in the West Bank who were planning a "large imminent attack" were killed in a dronezap overnight, the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency said Wednesday.

Five Paleostinians were reported killed in the ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
<del>Arclight</del> airstrike

...KABOOM!...
, and another five were killed in a separate strike hours later during festivities between IDF troops and button men in the West Bank.

The IDF and Shin Bet identified the cell leader as as Abdullah Abu Shalal, calling him the head of "one of the main terror networks" in the West Bank.

A joint statement said Abu Shalal and the other members of the cell were targeted in the strike near the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, following intelligence about their intention to carry out a major attack imminently.

The attack was believed by the IDF and Shin Bet to have been intended to be carried out in an Israeli city.

The statement said Abu Shalal had received financing and instructions from Iran, as well as terror groups in 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
and overseas.

The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said four other people were killed in the strike. The other members of the cell were not immediately identified.

The military said Abu Shalal was responsible for a string of recent attacks, including a shooting attack last April in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in which two Israelis were maimed, and the planting of a bomb in October that maimed a soldier.

The military said that after the strike on the terror cell, weapons were found in the car in which they were traveling. Images published by the IDF showed a machine gun, two handguns, magazines, and several bombs.

Hours after the strike in Balata, the IDF said it carried out another airstrike, against a group of Paleostinian button men in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, amid a counter-terrorism operation.

The IDF said the suspects were shooting and hurling bombs at troops operating in Tulkarem. One reservist was seriously maimed by the gunfire, it said.

The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said five people were killed in the Tulkarem strike. Images on social media showed a number of maimed or killed Paleostinians next to a heavily damaged vehicle that was apparently hit.

The IDF said that in the Tulkarem operation, dozens of suspects had been questioned, seven were arrested, and engineering vehicles uncovered bombs hidden under the roads.

It said the raid was still ongoing as of Tuesday afternoon.

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Israeli forces arrest Fatah-linked terror operative in Jenin refugee camp

2023-09-10

[IsraelTimes] IDF says Tanzim member Muhammad Naghnaghiya aided in carrying out series of West Bank shootings in recent months

Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday morning, for the second time in days, arresting a suspected terror operative partially associated with the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party.

Muhammad Naghnaghiya, a veteran member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group, was detained for allegedly aiding in executing a series of shooting attacks in the West Bank in recent months, according to the military.

Members of the Border Police’s undercover West Bank unit converged on a building in the Jenin refugee camp and nabbed Naghnaghiya, after receiving intelligence on his whereabouts from the Shin Bet security agency.

The Israel Defense Forces said that during the raid, Paleostinian button men shot at the forces, who returned fire.

Naghnaghiya was handed over to the Shin Bet for further questioning.

Tanzim, an armed militia founded in 1995 and loosely affiliated with the PA’s ruling Fatah party, was a key player in violence at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000.

Paleostinian media on Wednesday published a photo from the early 2000s showing Naghnaghiya with notorious terror commander Zakaria Zubeidi in the Jenin refugee camp.

Zubeidi, a senior commander in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was released from Israeli prison in a 2007 amnesty deal, but was rearrested a decade later. Exactly two years ago, on September 6, 2021, while still awaiting trial, Zubeidi fled Gilboa Prison — along with five other high-risk Paleostinian security prisoners — in an escape that transfixed Israelis and Paleostinians for weeks. They were all later rearrested.

The raid on Wednesday morning came less than two days after Israeli forces entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest three members of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group.

Violence has surged across the West Bank over the past year and a half, with a rise in Paleostinian shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and troops, near-nightly arrest raids by the military, and an uptick in Dire Revenge attacks by krazed killer Jewish settlers against Paleostinians.

The IDF said Wednesday morning that troops detained nine wanted Paleostinians during overnight raids elsewhere in the West Bank, with festivities in some areas.

Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank since the beginning of the year have left 27 civilians and three soldiers dead, and several others seriously maimed.

According to a tally by The Times of Israel, 180 West Bank and East Jerusalem Paleostinians have been killed during the same period — the vast majority of them during festivities with security forces or while carrying out attacks, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under unclear circumstances, including by armed Israeli settlers.

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Palestinian gunman killed by Israeli forces during raid in Jenin

2023-08-18

[IsraelTimes] Media reports identify Mustafa al-Kastouni, 32, as member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades; no immediate comment from IDF.

A Paleostinian gunman was killed and two others, members of a terror cell, were arrested by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday morning, the military said.

In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces, Border Police, and Shin Bet security agency said troops entered Jenin to arrest members of a terror cell planning attacks.

Undercover Border Police officers arrested two wanted Paleostinians outside a building in Jenin, following intelligence given to them by the Shin Bet of their whereabouts.

A gunman, named as 32-year-old Mustafa al-Kastouni, opened fire from inside the building at the Israeli forces, defense officials said. The Border Police troops broke into the building, and amid an exchange of fire, al-Kastouni was killed, and one Israeli officer was lightly hurt by shrapnel.

The Paleostinian Authority health ministry said al-Kastouni was fatally shot in the head, chest, and abdomen by Israeli soldiers. He was identified by Paleostinian media outlets as a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group.

The Shin Bet said al-Kastouni had been previously involved in gunfire toward Israeli forces in the West Bank.

The IDF said forces found a weapon and dozens of primed bombs inside the building. The bombs were destroyed, leading to claims by Paleostinian media that Israeli forces "blew up a bakery" in Jenin.

As the Israeli forces left the northern West Bank city, Paleostinian button men opened fire and hurled explosives, the IDF said. Troops returned fire, hitting several gunnies, the military said.

The IDF last operated in Jenin on July 31, four weeks after a major operation in the northern West Bank city.

The IDF said that troops detained ten more wanted Paleostinians during sweeps across the West Bank early Thursday, with violence in some areas.

Also early Thursday, an IDF officer was lightly hurt after coming under fire during a patrol near the northern West Bank village of Burqa, the military said.

Paleostinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank have left 26 people dead and several others seriously maimed since the beginning of the year.

According to a tally by The Times of Israel, 172 West Bank Paleostinians have also been killed during the same period — most of them during festivities with security forces or while carrying out attacks, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under unclear circumstances, including by armed Israeli settlers.

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Israeli father of two killed in northern West Bank terror shooting

2023-05-31

[IsraelTimes] Drive-by attack occurs near settlement of Hermesh, west of Jenin; military launches manhunt; victim named as Meir Tamari, 32

An Israeli man was shot and killed in a shooting attack near the settlement of Hermesh in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, the military and medics said.

According to local authorities, the victim, later named as 32-year-old Meir Tamari, came under fire from a passing vehicle on a road near the settlement of Hermesh, west of Jenin. He continued driving until he reached the community, where he was treated by medics.

The Magen David Adom ambulance service said Tamari, a civilian, was treated at death's door at the entrance to the settlement, after suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body. A helicopter was dispatched to the scene to take the victim to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, where he was later declared dead.

The Israel Defense Forces said troops launched a manhunt for the button men, closing off several roads in the area.

In a statement carried by Paleostinian media, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, loosely linked to the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party, grabbed credit for the deadly attack.

"We affirm that this operation and others will not be the final response to our deaders," the statement read.

Tamari had moved to Hermesh some four years ago after getting married to Tal, a resident of the West Bank settlement, the Samaria regional council said. He is survived by his wife and two young children, aged one and three.

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