Escalation in Judea and Samaria: Since the end of the second intifada, the IDF has not carried out targeted killings from the air in Judea and Samaria – until yesterday (Wednesday), when an Israeli aircraft fired at a Palestinian vehicle carrying a terrorist squad near the city of Jenin. Now the prime minister is responding to the significant development.
"We are constantly surprising, we are constantly changing the equation vis-à-vis terrorist elements. We did it in the last operation in Gaza, we did it again yesterday in Jenin," Netanyahu said, adding that "this cell carried out several terrorist attacks and was about to carry out more terrorist attacks, but we closed an account with it by surprise."
PM Netanyahu reacts to thwarting terrorist squad near Jenin
He thanked the security officials involved in thwarting the cell: "I would like to congratulate Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet for the precise intelligence, and the IDF for the precise execution. We will continue to act with initiative, innovation, surprise – and we will win."
Moments of elimination of terrorists in Jenin by drone Arab networks
The squad that was thwarted yesterday carried out a number of shooting attacks against Israeli communities recently, and the Jenin Battalion, an armed group most of whose members belong to Islamic Jihad, officially announced that the operatives killed were Suhaib Roll (27), commander of the Jenin Battalion, Muhammad Awais (28), commander of Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades, and Ashraf Saadi, 17, an operative in the Jenin Battalion.
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