An IDF raid killed four Palestinian terrorists near Jenin on Thursday. It was the latest bloodshed in a year-long wave of violence in the region.
Video: Reuters/ The operation in Jenin
The Israeli military said the troops were operating in the Jenin refugee camp. The area is known as a stronghold of Palestinian terrorists, and Israel frequently conducts military raids in the area.
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Two of the terrorists killed were wanted individuals, which were the target of the raid. They were members of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and had been involved in planning and executing attacks against Israelis. The Jenin Brigade, a local Palestinian group, said its men clashed with an armed Israeli unit disguised as Palestinians. The Israelis had "carried out a cowardly assassination of resistance fighters," a Jenin Brigade statement said. It named one of the dead as the leading figure in the group. The Islamist group Hamas claimed a second dead gunman as its member.
In response to the deadly raid, Hamas, the leading terrorist group among Palestinians which also controls the Gaza Strip, vowed revenge.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified three of the dead as Youssef Shreem, 29, Nidal Khazim, 28, and Omar Awadin, 16. Amateur video taken by people in Jenin appeared to show a crowd of Palestinians surrounding a car that people suspected carried undercover Israeli troops. Another clip appeared to show Israeli military vehicles towing the car away.
Video: Clashes in Jenin
Israel has stepped up arrest raids in the West Bank in response to a series of attacks in 2022. Palestinian attacks against Israelis have killed 14 people in 2023.
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