Jenin terrorists set to carry out Hamas-like attack, military says

The air force bombs the Al-Ansar mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in the first such strike on the West Bank since the early 2000s; 5-man terror squad hiding under the mosque, previously used as a command center for attacks, were heavily armed
The IDF conducted an air raid on a Jenin mosque after a 5-man terror squad took shelter in a tunnel beneath it, the military said on Sunday. This was the first time since the early 2000s that the air force bombed targets in the West Bank.
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According to the security forces, the heavily armed squad was preparing to launch an attack like the massacres conducted by Hamas on border communities in the South. Two of the terrorists were killed and the rest were wounded or captured.
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Aftermath of an air force strike on the Jenin refugee camp early on Sunday
(Photo: AFP)
Members of the terror squad were affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and had been involved in attacks carried out in the West Bank over recent months.
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Aftermath of an air force strike on the Jenin refugee camp early on Sunday
(Photo: Mohammad Ateeq / Reuters)
The Al-Ansar mosque had sheltered terrorists in the past and was used as a command center for attacks against Israelis. Forces found infrastructure and weapons used by terrorists under the mosque during their incursion into the Jenin refugee camp last July.
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