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Friday, January 19, 2024
IDF says it wrapped up operation in West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp after 45 hours
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
After some 45 hours, the IDF says it has wrapped up a counter-terrorism operation in the West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp.
During the raid, the IDF says troops scanned around 1,000 buildings and located more than 400 explosive devices, and seized 27 weapons and other military equipment.
Five explosive manufacturing labs and four sites used by local terror operatives to observe Israeli forces using surveillance cameras were also located and destroyed, the IDF says.
Engineering vehicles uncovered and destroyed dozens of explosives hidden under the roads of the camp, the IDF says.
The IDF says 37 wanted Palestinians were arrested during the operation, including several senior members of a local terror network.
At least eight Palestinian gunmen were killed during clashes with troops amid the raid, some of them in an airstrike on Wednesday.
One IDF soldier was also seriously wounded in the raid, which the army announced Wednesday. The IDF says troops located the gunmen, killing some and arresting others amid the operation.
