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IDF spokesman says terror cell targeted in ambush posed ‘real and immediate threat’
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Military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the Palestinian terror cell ambushed by troops near the West Bank city of Jenin was heading to carry out a drive-by shooting attack against Israeli civilians in the area of the West Bank settlement of Mevo Dotan, and that the forces had “removed a real and immediate threat.”
“The cell was on its way to an attack in order to kill Israeli civilians,” Hagari says, noting a deadly drive-by shooting attack in the West Bank in May.
“There was an alert, we were prepared and therefore we also achieved a quick result. This is a targeted and surgical operation in which intelligence is the main enabler, together with very fast flexibility of the IDF and the operational units,” Hagari tells reporters.
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