IDF Eliminates Hamas Terrorist
IDF troops attacked terrorist strongholds in southern Gaza Sunday night killing one Hamas terrorist in fierce fighting near the Sufa Crossing. Monday morning, the IDF conducted counter terror operations in northern Gaza which ended before noon.
The army carried out counter-terrorism operations Sunday night one kilometer southwest of the Sufa crossing when gunfire broke out, according to local sources. Two IDF soldiers were wounded. The southern Gaza operation concluded early Monday morning. Terrorist cells in Gaza have become better trained and equipped, said a separate source, increasing the necessity for Israeli troops to maintain a presence in the region.
In the Monday fighting, Israeli forces clashed with an armed terrorist cell that fired rocket-propelled grenades at the soldiers in the area around the Agricultural College in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, a favorite Kassam rocket launching spot.
The IDF reconnaissance unit captured three wanted terrorists Monday morning during operations in Shechem, the “terrorist capital” of Judea and Samaria. In Shechem, located 35 miles northeast of Tel Aviv, a Givati Brigade soldier was moderately wounded while battling terrorists in the city’s Ein Bet Ilmeh neighborhood. The soldier was taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva with shrapnel wounds in the neck.
IDF soldiers also arrested 20 other Palestinian Authority fugitives around Judea and Samaria. All were transferred to security personnel for interrogation.
source: arutz-7
