by Herb Keinon
Premier begins cabinet meeting by hailing security forces following Saturday's raid in the Jenin refugee camp which killed a terror operative from Hamas.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu praised Israel's security forces at Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting for the raid in Jenin on Saturday that led to the death of Hamas member Hamza Abu Aleija.
“Our forces hit someone who planned and organized attacks on innocent civilians," he said, calling this a "very important" operation.
"Our policy is to attack those who attack or plan to attack us."
Likewise, Netanyahu praised the IDF for its recent discovery of a massive tunnel from the southern Gaza Strip into Israel. Calling this a "Hamas attack tunnel," Netanyahu said this showed the importance of strict security arrangements under any possible future agreement.
In addition to Abu Aleija, two other Palestinians were shot dead in gun battles that erupted during the counterterrorism raid in Jenin early on Saturday.
Security forces had entered the refugee camp in the West Bank city to arrest Abu Aleija.
He planned to carry out a campaign of shooting attacks on Israeli civilians and military targets after receiving instructions to do so from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to the army.
The IDF is on standby in the West Bank for the possibility of an increase in disturbances in the coming days.
On Friday, the army said it discovered a terrorism tunnel linking the southern Gaza Strip to Israel.
“The IDF sees the tunnel as an attack on Israeli sovereignty and a clear violation of agreements reached in Operation Pillar of Defense [of 2012],” the army said.
Hamas bore responsibility for the tunnel, the military said.
Hamas denied the IDF’s claim, saying the army had unearthed an old passage dug by Islamic Jihad.
Security sources said the terror tunnel was the largest the IDF had found to date.
Herb Keinon
Source: http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Netanyahu-praises-IDF-after-Jenin-raid-Gaza-tunnel-discovery-346205
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