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The raid was carried out near Tulkarm on the West Bank. It lasted over 12 hours and during it the Israeli military, the IDF, leveled a two-storey house with the help of a bulldozer, writes .
Five people were killed, and according to the IDF, all but one of them belonged to the terrorist group Hamas. The fifth man has not been identified due to his injuries.
This is also confirmed by Hamas, which says that four of the men killed during the raid in the village of Deir al-Ghusun belonged to the group’s armed branch al-Qassam.
According to the Palestinian health authority in the West Bank, the bodies were taken away by IDF soldiers, writes .
Singled out for murder
The Hamas terrorists are singled out by Israel as being responsible for a shooting in the West Bank last November. In it, 29-year-old Elhanan Klein, an Israeli reservist, was killed when he was shot while sitting in his car on the highway. A police officer was also injured in the shooting.
The Israeli military described the men as a “terrorist cell” that had been under surveillance for several months. In addition to the shooting on the highway, the IDF believes that the men were behind a car bomb attack in April in which two Israelis were injured.
Another five people were arrested by Israeli military nearby, according to Jerusalem Post. An IDF soldier is also said to be seriously injured and is now undergoing surgery in hospital.
The situation in the occupied West Bank has escalated for two years, and intensified even more since the Hamas attack on Israel in October.
Since October 7, 492 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or Jewish settlers in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, writes The Guardian citing the Palestinian Health Authority.
Many of them have been Hamas men, but civilians have also been killed.
