Two Palestinian terrorists were killed in Jenin overnight Thursday during clashes with Israeli troops conducting a raid in the West Bank city.
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Local media identified them as Mohammed Ayman Saadi, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Na'im Zubeidi from the Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and added that as many as 20 people were wounded at varying degrees. Israeli has not yet confirmed any of the reports.
The IDF had reportedly entered Jenin, a known Islamic stronghold, to arrest wanted individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activity. Troops operating in the village of Yabad in the northern West Bank also came under fire.
The military has been conducting almost nightly operations in the city as part of Operation Breakwater, an extensive counter-terrorism campaign in Judea and Samaria that was launched in the summer in response to a series of terror attacks by Palestinians in Israel earlier in the year, in which 19 Israelis were killed. The fighting has intensified even further since two Israelis were killed in a Palestinian bombing attack in Jerusalem.
The perpetrators of the twin bombings have not yet been apprehended, but Chief Superintendent Oded Aflalo, head of the Operations Branch for Border Police, said Wednesday that they will be apprehended in the near future.
"The investigation is continuing on numerous levels – intelligence, which I cannot detail but which is progressing, and operational – whereby the Border Police is working with the Shin Bet security agency, the Yamam counter terrorism police and other units. In the coming days we will get to each and every one of those involved … and bring them to justice," he said.
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