Strike hits Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin, West Bank (representative)
West Bank Jenin:
Israel said on Sunday that it had carried out an airstrike on a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing a Hamas and Islamic Jihad “terrorist operative” who had been planning the attack.
The airstrike hit al-Ansar Mosque, which the Israeli military said was “used by terrorists as a headquarters and execution base for planning attacks.”
The Israeli military said the targets had already carried out “several terrorist attacks in the past few months and were organizing additional terrorist attacks imminently.”
They said they had been “neutralized” but gave no details on the number or identities of those killed in the strike.
Since October 7, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel and killed at least 1,400 people, most of them civilians, shot, mutilated and burned to death, the West Bank has been attacked by Israeli forces and settlers, according to Israel News Agency. Dozens of people have been killed. officials.
Israel launched heavy shelling on the Gaza Strip in retaliation, killing more than 4,300 people, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.
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