From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
IDF, Shin Bet arrest 11 Hamas members in overnight West Bank raid
Israeli security forces arrested 11 members of terror group Hamas in the West Bank overnight, among 28 terror suspects, the military says.
A number of hidden explosives and a weapons cache were uncovered during a raid in the West Bank city of Tulkarem to crack down on terror infrastructure, according to a joint statement by the IDF, the Shin Bet, and Border Police.
A Palestinian man was also reportedly killed in clashes with IDF troops in the village of Sa’ir near Hebron in the southern West Bank overnight, according to Palestinian media reports. A spokesperson from Hebron’s Ahli Hospital named the man as 24-year-old Sa’ad Nimr Al-Faroukh, according to one report.
Two others were reportedly injured in the incident.
The Palestinian man was reportedly injured when soldiers returned fire on groups of Palestinians who were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at IDF forces.
Israeli soldiers were in Sa’ir to map the family home of a 16-year-old Palestinian who carried out a stabbing attack near the Herod’s Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday, killing Border Police officer Rose Elisheva Lubin and wounding another border cop.
Mapping is the first step in the process taken by Israeli authorities to carry out the controversial practice of home demolitions. Jerusalem insists that the policy helps deter future attacks, but human rights groups and the US decry the policy as collective punishment.
