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As part of the ongoing counterterrorism operation in Nur Shams, near Tulkarm, in which numerous terrorists have been killed already, the various terrorist organizations are attempting to send a message of resolve and determination against the Israeli forces to the Palestinian Authority Arabs in the city. In a video clip published on Palestinian Arab Telegram channels, seven armed members of the al-Quds battalion, a military army of the Islamic Jihad organization in Nur Shams, read a message that despite the destruction caused by Israeli forces, the "Palestinian struggle" will continue due to the national support and determination of the residents....

During an arrest operation in Jenin, three Islamic Jihad terrorists were eliminated. The IDF, Border Police's Yamam unit, and Israel Security Agency (Shabak) carried out a joint arrest operation, during which a shootout developed, leaving Chief Superintendent S. severely injured, and three other fighters lightly and moderately injured. Around 1:00a.m. Saturday morning, information was received from Shabak regarding the whereabouts of the cell, which at the time was traveling by car from Jenin to Tulkarem. According to one estimate, the cell intended to carry out a large terror attack, possibly similar to the massacre in Itamar in 2011. Around 1:30,...

Israel Police estimates that, in 2017, some 80% of property crimes, such as burglaries and car thefts, were committed by Arab residents of Judea and Samaria, Israel Hayom reported Friday. Police data also shows that 80% of the property crime cases that were closed because the identity of the offender was unknown – said offender resides in Judea and Samaria. This despite the check post and the costly so-called security fence. Of the burglary cases police did solve, 47% involved PA Arabs, as well as in 40% of car theft cases. According to findings from the police Hawkeye system, which...

By Joel Leyden Israel News AgencyTel Aviv, Israel — January 21, 2015 … An elite Israeli police unit, which serves both prisons and courts, reacted quickly in capturing a 22-year-old Islamic terrorist from the West Bank city of Tulkarm. The terrorist boarded bus number 40 in central Tel Aviv and began to attack the driver. The wounded driver Herzl Biton, 55, a father of three and a bus driver for over 23 years responded by spraying the attacker with mace spray. Biton, who was stabbed in the chest, was evacuated by Magen David Adom emergency medical services to Ichilov and...

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<p>The suicide bomber who killed an Israel Defense Forces officer and two Palestinians at an army checkpoint near Tul Karm yesterday was apparently planning to blow himself up at one of the many children's events taking place in Tel Aviv during this week's Hanukkah holiday, army sources said.</p>

Security sources reported the Palestinian Authority fears a large scale Israel Defense Forces retaliation in Tul Karm following Thursday's suicide attack in which an IDF officer and two Palestinians were killed. The sources said the PA and its Fatah party closed its offices in Tul Karm early ahead of a possible IDF response. Palestinian police officers that were uniformed before the attack reportedly changed to civilian clothes. The three victims were killed Thursday morning when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an IDF checkpoint set up in the West Bank in response to warnings of an impending terrorist attack....

An IDF soldier was killed during a raid early Monday morning near Saide, north of Tulkarm, as soldiers pursued wanted Islamic Jihad members, details released for publication revealed. Palestinians opened fire at paratroopers crossing an open area heading toward the village. One of the soldiers sustained major head injuries despite wearing a helmet. Soldiers returned fire, killing Shafik Abdul A'ani, one of the two fugitives. Abdul Fatah Radad, the second fugitive, was wounded in the firefight and succeeded in fleeing the area, but was later caught. The critically wounded soldier was airlifted to Tel Hashomer Medical Center, but died shortly...

IDF soldiers from the Golani Brigade's Egoz unit arrested a senior member of the Islamic Jihad Tuesday afternoon. In an operation in the Nur a-Shams refugee camp in Tulkarm, IDF soldiers surrounded the house in which the fugitive was hiding. He was wounded in a gunfire battle tht erupted between the soldiers and the people in the house, Army Radio reported. The man came out of the house and surrended to military forces after he was wounded. Earlier, a special Border Police unit arrested a Hamas fugitive in the camp. Overnight Monday, soldiers arrested an Islamic Jihad member south of...

Aug. 2, 2004 8:58 | Updated Aug. 2, 2004 18:48 Senior Hamas fugitives apprehended in Tulkarm By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Four senior Hamas fugitives were arrested Monday in Tulkarm and a Tanzim member was arrested in Bethlehem following a full curfew that was placed on the city throughout the day. Soldiers at the Hawara roadblock also found remnants of explosives in a Palestinian ambulance, using an explosives detector – the likes of which has been recently implemented in several roadblocks throughout the West Bank. IDF seeks suicide bomber in Bethlehem IDF forces have sealed off the West Bank city of Bethlehem...

A nine-year-old Palestinian boy was killed and two other children were wounded in the West Bank on Tuesday when they accidentally detonated a pipe bomb apparently prepared by militants, witnesses said. The boys found the crude device hidden in the crevice of a stone wall close to a main road near the city of Tul Karm, and it exploded while they were playing with it, the witnesses said. Other Palestinian sources said, however, that the explosion had been caused by a flare left by IDF troops after training in the area overnight. The IDF said it had no information on...

Three Palestinian militants were shot and killed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers near the West Bank city of Tul Karm early on Thursday. The three men were said to be carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles. No IDF soldiers were injured in the incident. According to the report, the three militants were senior Tanzim officials and were on the IDF's wanted list. They were identified as Bilal Abu-Amshe, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades leader in Tul Karm, Haitam Barame and Ghanem Ghanem. The army says that the latter two were involved in planning and carrying out the April 3 terror attack on...

Palestinian security sources said early on Monday that Israel Defense Forces operated overnight in the West Bank cities of Jenin and Tul Karm, Israel Radio reported. According to the report, some 30 armored vehicles entered Jenin. Smaller forces are operating in Tul Karm and the report said troops arrested several Palestinian Authority police officers. Early on Sunday morning troops arresting two wanted militants shot and killed a Palestinian man in the West Bank village of Akraba near Nablus. IDF troops surrounded a house where Tanzim militants were staying, and called on them to surrender, Israel Radio reported. When they refused,...

Nov. 4, 2003 Palestinians fire on IDF forces in W. Bank, Gaza Strip By JPOST.COM STAFF Palestinians opened fire at an IDF roadblock in Tulkarm on the West Bank Tuesday evening. There were no reports of injuries. The roadblock is near Taibe. In another incident Tues evening, Palestinians fired on an IDF position near the settlement of Netzer Hezeni in the Southern Gaza Strip. There were no injuries and no damage was reported. Troops returned fire. Meanwhile, Jerusalem Police reported Tuesday that they had arrested a young Palestinian woman who they suspected was involved in terrorist activities against Israelis. The...

5 Tanzim Terrorists Arrested on Suspicion of Aiding Suicide Bomber 21:45 Nov 03, '03 / 8 Cheshvan 5764 (IsraelNN.com) IDF troops this afternoon arrested five Tanzim terrorists in PA-controlled Tul Karem and the village of Azzoun. They are suspected of assisting the suicide bomber who was blown up this morning in the Shomron on his way to an attack. One soldier was lightly wounded in the explosion.

Oct. 15, 2003 Troops kill PFLP man at W. Bank checkpoint By JPOST.COM STAFF Troops shot and killed a member of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at the village of Enbata near Tulkarm on the West Bank Wednesday. The Palestinian approached an IDF checkpoint recently set up in the area, and when called on to stop, the man attempted to flee the area. Soldiers opened fire on the man after he again ignored their calls to stop. Army Radio reported that troops identified the man as a PFLP militant who has been in an Israeli...

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a radical offshoot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah group, is claiming responsibility for a West Bank suicide bombing. The blast, at an Israeli army checkpoint, wounded two Israelis. In a phone call to AFP, the group says one of its militants died in the attack in the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm. The group says it will release the bomber's identity later.

Last Update: 08/10/2003 21:30 IDF to call up four battalions of reservists after Sukkot By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lieutenant General Moshe Ya'alon, decided Wednesday to call up four battalions of reserve infantry soldiers after the Sukkot holiday, to be deployed in the Gaza Strip and along the Green Line border between Israel and the West Bank in the Jenin, Tul Karm, Qalqilyah and Ramallah sectors. The reservists will be deployed in order to boost troops already on high alert for terrorist attacks and in some cases will replace regular army units whose training...

Oct. 4, 2003 IDF kills Metzer attack terrorist By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN Special Forces tracked down and killed Saturday the terrorist who sneaked into a kibbutz last November and gunned down five people including a mother and her two sons as she read them a bedtime story. Security forces have been on the trail of Sirhan Sirhan, a Fatah member, ever since he was able to escape from the attack. They finally caught up with him Saturday afternoon in the Tulkarum refugee camp. A unit from the Border Police undercover unit ambushed him as he road in a vehicle with two...

Undercover IDF troops killed one Islamic Jihad militant and wounded another on Wednesday when they entered the West Bank city of Tul Karm to search for suspects. The troops came under fire as they searched for suspects in the city. The dead man was suspected of making a number of explosive devices used in attacks against Israeli targets. The Islamic Jihad on Wednesday vowed to avenge the IDF's overnight capture of Sheikh Bassam Saadi, who served as the militant movement's chief in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The movement's leader in Gaza, Abdallah al-Shami, said revenge would be...