The Israeli army claimed this Sunday that it killed “terrorists” who were taking refuge in an underground passage of the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
“The army carried out an airstrike against a terrorist compound belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, who were responsible for several terrorist attacks in recent months and who were organizing a new terrorist attack soon,” the Israeli military said. it’s a statement.
The head of the Jenin Red Crescent, Mahmoud Al-Saadi, was quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa as saying that one person was killed and three others were injured in the attack.
According to the Israeli military, which carried out the operation together with Israel’s internal intelligence services, the mosque served as a “command center to plan future attacks” and as a “base to execute them.”
According to the army, the “terrorist cell” organized an attack on October 14, near the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank, using an explosive device, but caused no casualties.
Dozens of people have been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli army or by settlement residents since October 7, the date of the bloody attack by the Islamist movement Hamas against Israel from the Gaza Strip, which left more than 1,400 dead, most of them They were civilians shot to death, burned alive or mutilated.
The Israeli army announced that it had found the bodies of 1,500 Hamas fighters in the areas it regained control after this attack, the deadliest since the creation of Israel in 1948.
In the Gaza Strip, more than 4,300 people, most of them civilians, were killed in retaliatory bombings by the Israeli army, according to the Hamas Health Ministry.
Source: TSF
