Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Weapons located by troops in a building where a Palestinian terrorist was holed up, near the West Bank city of Jenin, November 25, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
A Palestinian terrorist who killed an Israeli security guard at a West Bank industrial park last year was eliminated by troops this morning, the IDF announces.
On August 18, 2024, the assailant, Sultan al-Ghani, fatally wounded security guard Gidon Peri, 38, at the Bar-On industrial park near Kedumim by attacking him with a hammer, before snatching his handgun and fleeing the scene.
Medics and IDF troops at the scene of an attack at the Bar-On industrial park in the West Bank, during which a civilian security guard was hit over the head with a hammer by a Palestinian terrorist, August 18, 2024; inset: Gidon Peri, who was killed in the attack. (Magen David Adom; courtesy)
IDF troops and Shin Bet officers operated in an area south of Jenin overnight, during which the forces nabbed five suspected accomplices of al-Ghani, the military says.
This morning, soldiers of the Duvdevan commando unit encircled a building where al-Ghani was holed up and he was killed following an exchange of fire, the IDF says.
The military says that during scans in the building afterwards, the soldiers found several firearms, an explosive device, and ammunition.
The operation came hours after another Palestinian assailant, who killed two soldiers last year and had been on the run since, was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus.
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