Four Border Police officers injured, 2 seriously, in overnight counter-terror op in Jenin

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Four Border Police officers were wounded by a roadside bomb and six Palestinian were killed in an airstrike during an overnight raid in the West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.

In a joint statement, the IDF and police say forces entered Jenin for a counter-terrorism operation, when an explosive device planted on the side of a road hit a Border Police vehicle.

Two officers were seriously wounded, another moderately, and the fourth was lightly hurt, according to police.

The IDF says that during the extraction of the wounded officers, an attack helicopter carried out an airstrike against a group of Palestinian gunmen hurling explosives at troops.

The Palestinian Authority health ministry says six were killed in the strike.

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