IDF arrests Palestinians in West Bank affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad

Israeli troops detained several Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups during an extensive raid in the West Bank earlier today, the army says.

The IDF says troops of the Egoz commando unit and other forces operated overnight and this morning in 12 Palestinian villages in the Jenin area and captured “a number of terrorists affiliated with the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization.”

The troops also seized tens of thousands of shekels worth of cash that was allegedly used for terror, and questioned dozens of suspects, including those suspected of assisting Palestinians to illegally enter Israel, the IDF says.

The army says that overnight, elsewhere in the West Bank, troops detained another 23 wanted Palestinians and seized several weapons.