by JNS Staff
The Israeli military documented how Palestinian terrorists use mosques to carry out attacks on IDF troops.
The Israeli Air Force carried out more than 100 strikes in Judea and Samaria since the Swords of Iron war began on Oct. 7, 2023, killing at least 165 armed terrorists who posed a threat to Israeli troops, the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) said in a joint statement on Saturday evening.
“The attacks are carried out while taking careful measures to avoid harm to unarmed civilians, and according to international law,” the statement read.
Time and time again, the statement continued, Palestinian terrorists have used civilian infrastructure such as mosques, hospitals and schools as bases to conduct their violent activities.
The IDF provided documentarian on three separate operations, in Jenin and in Tulkarem, in which armed groups exploited places of worship for terrorist purposes.
During an operation in the Jenin region on the night of Nov. 19, 2024, terrorists opened fire on IDF troops from a mosque. The following morning, Israeli fighters returned to the mosque and found a shooting range, a training area and firing positions on the mosque’s lower level.
The same night, an Israeli Air Force craft identified terrorists firing at Israeli troops from inside a different mosque.
On Dec. 25, 2024, an IAF craft identified Palestinian terrorists hurling explosive devices at IDF troops from the roof of a mosque in Tulkarem.
The IDF and Shin Bet accompanied the statement with footage of the three incidents.
“These are further examples in Judea and Samaria of the terrorists’ cynical use of the population and of civilian institutions for terrorist acts in flagrant violation of international law, for the sole purpose of harming the security forces and the citizens of the State of Israel while risking and exploiting the Palestinian population,” the statement concluded.
On Friday, IDF, Border Police and Shin Bet forces carried out a counter-terrorism operation in the village of Kabatia near Jenin, apprehending eight wanted terrorists, the army said.
In addition, the forces mapped out for demolition the homes of the three terrorists who carried out the deadly attack this week next to the Palestinian village of Al-Funduq, close to Kedumim in Samaria.
Three Israelis were killed in the attack: sisters-in-law Rachel Cohen, 73, and Aliza Rice, 70, from Kedumim, and Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein, 35, a father of two, who served as an investigator at the Ariel police station.
Defense Minister Israel Katz called the attack “an act of war” that will be “met with a decisive response.
“We will strike the terrorists and their dispatchers and take firm action against the localities that harbored them. Palestinian terrorism will not be tolerated, and Jewish blood will not be spilled in vain,” Katz said during a visit to the attack site.
JNS Staff
Source: https://www.jns.org/idf-more-than-100-airstrikes-in-judea-and-samaria-since-oct-7/
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