The Israeli army claimed on Sunday to have killed “terrorists” in an airstrike who were taking refuge in an underground passage at the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
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“The army carried out an airstrike on a terrorist compound belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives, who were responsible for several terrorist attacks in recent months and were planning another imminent terrorist attack,” the Israeli army said in a press release.
Jenin Red Crescent director Mahmoud Al-Saadi was quoted by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa as saying one person was killed and three others were injured in the attack.
According to the Israeli army, which carried out the operation together with Israel’s domestic intelligence service, the mosque served as a “command center for planning future attacks” and as a “base for carrying them out.”
According to the army, the “terror cell” organized an attack with an explosive device near the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank on Saturday, October 14, but no casualties were reported.
Since October 7, the day of Hamas’s bloody attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip in which more than 1,400 people died, dozens of people in the West Bank had been killed by the Israeli army or settlement residents, most of them mowed down by bullets. burned alive or died of mutilation.
The Israeli army said it had found the bodies of 1,500 Hamas fighters in the towns it regained control of after that attack, the deadliest since Israel’s founding in 1948.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, more than 4,300 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the Gaza Strip by incessant bombing by the Israeli army.