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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

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A Carlo-style submachine gun used by a Palestinian suspect in a gunbattle with Israel Police forces in Ramallah on March 6, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
May 6, 2017, 11:31 am
Trying to stop West Bank shooting attacks, the IDF goes for the guns
12 months of raiding weapon workshops quintuples cost of home-made submachine guns, making them far less accessible for spontaneous terrorist acts
By Judah Ari Gross
Hundreds of gun parts seized by the IDF as part of a raid in the Balata refugee camp, outside Nablus, on March 8, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
March 8, 2017, 11:14 am
Palestinian gun dealers ordering parts off the internet, army says
In an illegal weapons crackdown, IDF seizes hundreds of firearm components, arrests 9 suspects in Nablus
By Judah Ari Gross
A marquee tent where the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine planned to hold an illegal rally supporting terror, February 21, 2017. (Police spokesperson)
February 21, 2017, 6:12 pm
Police prevent Jerusalem terror group rally, arrest 6
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine planned show of force to mark release of member from prison
By Stuart Winer
An IDF soldier welds shut a workshop suspected of being used to manufacture illegal guns in Hebron on January 30, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
January 30, 2017, 9:59 am
In West Bank raids, IDF shutters gun workshop, ‘inciting’ printer
Troops arrest 19 Palestinian suspects, mostly for rock throwing, amid uptick in attacks on Israeli civilians, soldiers
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF soldiers, along with the police and Shin Bet security service, seize dozens of illegal weapons in Bethlehem and Hebron on August 23, 2016, as part of a large crackdown effort on illicit guns in the West Bank. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
January 26, 2017, 11:59 pm
IDF’s West Bank crackdown triples prices of makeshift guns
In a bid to keep firearms out of terrorists’ hands, shuttering the workshops that make them became a high priority in 2016
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF soldiers raid a gun-making workshop near the West Bank of Hebron on December 19, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson)
December 19, 2016, 5:08 pm
IDF raids ‘one of biggest gun factories ever found’ in West Bank
Dozens of weapons, manufacturing tools confiscated at Hebron facility, including M-16 parts and large amounts of ammunition
By ToI Staff
IDF soldiers, along with the police and Shin Bet security service, seize dozens of illegal weapons in Bethlehem and Hebron on August 23, 2016, as part of a large crackdown effort on illicit guns in the West Bank. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
August 23, 2016, 1:53 pm
Dozens of illegal guns seized in West Bank crackdown
IDF, police, Shin Bet conduct raids in Bethlehem, Hebron as part of ongoing campaign against illicit weapons
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: IDF soldiers arrest a Palestinian man in the Dheisheh refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 8, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 10, 2016, 2:17 pm
Palestinian man arrested for planning shooting attack
In raids across the West Bank, IDF soldiers pick up 13 suspects, clash with Palestinians and uncover weapons caches
By Judah Ari Gross
A pistol, two magazines and a carrying case found by police in the bedroom of a 13-year-old resident of East Jerusalem at the educational institution where he lives, on August 2016. (Israel Police)
August 7, 2016, 11:25 am
Police find pistol in 13-year-old E. Jerusalem boy’s bedroom
Officers investigating how East Jerusalem teen got the gun; IDF troops uncover weapons cache in West Bank raid
By Judah Ari Gross
Israelis seen eating at Benedict's restaurant at the Sarona Market shopping center in central Tel Aviv, June 9, 2016, the morning after a deadly terror attack at the site. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 21, 2016, 2:06 pm
Man accused of housing Sarona killers in makeshift storage unit
Abdelhadi Abu A’fash, of the Negev town of Segev Shalom, rented his warehouse to Palestinians who entered Israel illegally, not charged in terror plot
By ToI Staff
Homemade guns, body armor and other equipment seized by IDF troops in the Palestinian village of al-Dik in an overnight raid on May 25, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
July 12, 2016, 9:38 pm
In bid to curb violence, IDF takes aim at West Bank guns
Army says it has seized 200 guns and shuttered 16 illegal arms factories since start of year
By Tia Goldenberg
A drill press confiscated by Israeli security forces , on July 10, 2016, that is believed to have been used in the production of illegal weapons in the West Bank village of Urif. (Shin Bet)
July 11, 2016, 8:48 am
Israel nabs 2 Palestinian intel officers for making, selling guns
In crackdown on illegal weapons in the West Bank, security forces seize firearms, ammo and equipment
By Judah Ari Gross
Khalid Muhamra, left, Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, center, and Muhammad Muhamra, right, speak with an attorney during their indictment in a Tel Aviv District Court on July 4, 2016. The three Palestinian men have been charged with murder in connection with the terror attack at the Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed. (Flash90)
July 4, 2016, 2:48 pm
Sarona gunmen were ‘inspired’ by Islamic State, Shin Bet says
Terrorists who killed 4, wounded 16 in a Tel Aviv market originally planned to shoot up a train, according to indictment
By Judah Ari Gross
Khalid Muhamra (left) and Muhammad Muhamra (right), two Palestinian cousins from the West Bank village of Yatta who carried out the terror attack at the Sarona Market in central Tel Aviv in which four Israelis were killed. (Courtesy)
June 10, 2016, 8:45 pm
The route to terror: Police reveal how gunmen got from Hebron to Tel Aviv
Palestinian cousins who killed four at Sarona Market entered Israel through gap in security fence, got help, changed clothes, took cabs from Beersheba
By ToI Staff
One of two pieces of equipment suspected of being used to make guns that were seized by the IDF during a raid near Jerusalem on June 9, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
June 10, 2016, 11:39 am
IDF seizes gunmaking machinery, ammo in West Bank sweeps
Army makes more arrests in Hebron-area hometown of Tel Aviv terrorists, who used homemade weapons to kill 4 in rampage
By Judah Ari Gross
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