IDF, Border Police arrest 10 PIJ terrorists near Jenin who planned attack on Israeli citizens
According to the IDF, the terror cell had been planning an attack against civilians in the northern West Bank before being apprehended by IDF soldiers and Border Police officers.
On Monday morning, near Jenin, Israeli forces arrested ten terrorists planning an attack on Israeli civilians, the IDF reported. According to the IDF, the terror cells were apprehended by IDF Paratroopers Brigade and Duvdevan undercover counterterror commandos, working alongside Border Police, in a simultaneous raid of ten locations.
The operation, guided by the Shin Bet, targeted the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. The soldiers and police apprehended the ten terrorists within 30 minutes of the initial field interrogation. Over the past two months, three operations have been conducted to counter the terror threat in the area. Another recent operation in Kabatiya, near Jenin, saw the arrest of five terrorists, and in Aqaba, a village in the West Bank, 10 more terrorists were apprehended, along with several weapons, including a rocket and an M-16 rifle.
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