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Thursday, December 19, 2024
IDF drone strike in West Bank earlier today killed senior terror operative Shin Bet says was financed by Iran
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
An IDF drone strike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem earlier today killed a senior terror operative who the Shin Bet says was being financed by Iran, alongside three other Palestinian gunmen.
According to the Shin Bet, the target of the strike was Tariq al-Doush, who is identified as one of the commanders of a terror network in Tulkarem.
The Shin Bet says that al-Doush worked to recruit operatives in the past year to carry out attacks, who would be armed with Iranian financing via operatives in Lebanon.
The operatives in Lebanon who were in contact with al-Doush are members of the Makdah family, who the Shin Bet has accused in the past of working with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to advance terror attacks in the West Bank.
The network that al-Doush headed was involved in several shooting attacks against IDF troops, checkpoints, and Israeli towns near the West Bank security barrier, the agency says.
The Shin Bet says the network planned to carry out attacks in Israel as well.
Alongside al-Doush, three other gunmen were killed, including Dosem al-Awfi, who the Shin Bet says is a prominent member of the Tulkarem terror network.
قائد الكتائب والمُطارد العنيد البطل طارق الدوش يرتقي شهيد في قصف الاحتلال مركبة في طولكرم، طليعة التحرير إن شاء الله يا شهيد. https://t.co/tQDeyJn40K pic.twitter.com/sxjtxENFyu
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