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IDF says Jenin strike targeted Hamas operatives who helped orchestrate deadly terror shooting

By Emanuel Fabian 17 August 2024, 11:48 pm 2 Edit

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

Two senior Hamas terrorists were killed in the Israeli drone strike in the West Bank city of Jenin this evening, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency say.

According to the military and Shin Bet, the pair were involved in planning a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley last week, in which 23-year-old Yonatan Deutsch was killed and another civilian was wounded.

Ahmed Abu Ara, from Aqqaba, and Raafat Dawasi, from Silat al-Harithiya, were killed in the drone strike that targeted the car they were in, in Jenin.

The IDF and Shin Bet say that Abu Ara was involved in additional terror attacks, as well as being involved in manufacturing explosive devices, and Dawasi was a senior member of a Hamas terror network in Jenin.

The military releases footage of the strike.

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