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The Jerusalem Brigades - Tulkarm Battalion said that its members ambushed a car carrying an officer and three Israeli soldiers north of Tulkarm in the West Bank, killing all of them. This came hours after the Israeli army announced the killing of a non-commissioned officer from the commando forces and the wounding of an officer and a soldier in an operation in Deir Bzei’, Ramallah.
The Tulkarm Battalion said in a statement that its fighters set up an ambush at the gate of Deir Al-Ghusun, north of the city of Tulkarm, where they monitored the movements of the occupation army after setting up the ambush. Immediately upon the arrival of a vehicle carrying an officer and 3 soldiers, they opened direct fire on them and finished them off, which led to their vehicle overturning and they withdrew. Those who left the area safely, according to the statement.
The Al Jazeera correspondent explained that the Deir Al-Ghusun gate is located in a border area northwest of Tulkarm, noting that the resistance fighters were able to bypass the gate and infiltrate into the occupied territories. They crossed the wall that the occupation has been building for several months along the entire occupied West Bank, and infiltrated this area. The military point, monitoring the vehicle, then killing its occupants.
The correspondent added that the occupation army is currently carrying out combing operations in the area, and there is a widespread deployment of its forces throughout the border area in the town of Deir Al-Ghusun, at the gate and the Al-Jarushiya area, and the occupation vehicles and soldiers also stormed some outskirts of Tulkarm.
According to the reporter, the Israeli media has not reported anything about this operation until now.
The announcement of this operation comes hours after the occupation army announced the killing of a non-commissioned officer and the serious wounding of another officer and a soldier as a result of the operation carried out by the Palestinian Mujahid Barakat Mansour in the village of Deir Bazi’ near Ramallah in the West Bank, on Friday, who was martyred after clashing with soldiers for hours.
The Israeli army said that the non-commissioned officer who was killed belonged to the elite Duvdevan unit.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that 7 Israeli soldiers were injured in the clashes that took place the day before yesterday, Friday morning, with the Palestinian gunman who attacked a settler bus in Deir Bazi', west of Ramallah, stressing that the wounds of at least two of the wounded soldiers were serious.
The clash continued for hours, as the occupation army was unable to stop Mansour except by targeting him with a helicopter that fired a missile at him, leading to his death, according to witnesses and circulated videos.
Immediately after this operation took place and the identity of the martyr was identified, the occupation forces sent military reinforcements to his hometown of Deir Bazi’, surrounded his father’s house, and began interrogating his family members, according to what the head of the town’s local council, Imad al-Taweel, told Al Jazeera Net.
According to Al-Taweel, Mansour was previously a member of the Palestinian National Security Service, submitted his resignation about 7 years ago, and turned to self-employment.
In the same context, Al Jazeera's correspondent said that the occupation forces stormed the city of Hebron, arrested a number of young men, and set up barriers in the Ras Al-Joura area.
The number of Palestinian detainees in the West Bank has risen to 7,740 since October 7, after 15 Palestinians were arrested on Friday and Saturday.
Source: Al Jazeera