Two terrorists were killed early Monday during a confrontation between IDF troops and armed Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, Palestinian health officials said.
The two men were killed in the village of Kafr Dan near the northern city of Jenin. The military said it entered Kafr Dan late Sunday to demolish the houses of two Palestinian gunmen who killed IDF Major Bar Falah during a firefight in September. In that incident, troops intercepted two men spotted approaching an Israeli barrier near the Jalame Crossing north of Jenin when. The terrorists opened fire, killing Falah. They were then shot dead by the other troops, the military said
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The Palestinian Health Ministry identified those killed as Samer Houshiyeh, 21, and Fouad Abed, 25. Houshiyeh was shot several times in the chest, according to Samer Attiyeh, the director of the Ibn Sina Hosipital in Jenin. Attiyeh initially said Abed was 17, but the ministry later gave his age as 25.
An armed group, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, later claimed Houshiyeh as a member. The group, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, published an older photo in which Houshiyeh had posed with rifles. Video on social media showed his body wrapped with the armed group's flag as his mother and other mourners bid farewell.
The year 2022 was the deadliest since 2006, with many Palestinina terrorist attacks that resulted in a defensive campaign launched by Israel in the spring.
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