The IDF says it is continuing a counter-terror operation in the West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp, which began more than 35 hours ago.
So far, it says, troops have uncovered dozens of explosives hidden under the roads using engineering vehicles, searched hundreds of buildings and arrested 15 wanted Palestinians.
The IDF says troops also seized many weapons during the raids, and destroyed an explosives lab and a building used by local terror operatives to observe Israeli forces with surveillance cameras.
Eight Palestinian gunmen have so far been killed during clashes with IDF troops in the camp, the military says, some of them in an airstrike yesterday.
In other areas of the West Bank, the IDF says troops arrested 21 wanted Palestinians in overnight raids.
Since October 7, troops have arrested more than 2,700 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,300 affiliated with Hamas, according to the IDF.
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