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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...

An IDF unit in the Tulkarm area on the West Bank discovered a 35kg bomb in the early hours of Friday morning. Soldiers discovered the large bomb in the village of Ertah in the vicinity of Tulkarm. The device was hidden inside a truck's gas tank. Border Police sappers detonated the bomb in a controlled explosion. There were no injuries and no damage was caused.

08:13 IDF troops find 15-kg explosive belt ready for use in Tul Karm refugee camp

The Israel Defense Forces discovered a suicide terror explosive vest bomb this afternoon near Tulkarm, a military source told The Jerusalem Post. "We received information from Israeli intelligence that an explosive vest bomb had been planted in a field outside of Turlkarm and that a suicide bomber was expected to pick it up and attack an Israeli target in the coming hours," the source said. "We dispatched our Paratroopers to the scene where they found a 10 kilo explosive vest packed inside a bag under some dirt. A robot removed the vest and we destroyed the vest bomb in a...

Jun. 17, 2003 West Bank anti-terror operation nets 8 terrorists, IDF patrol attacked in Gaza By JOEL LEYDEN The Israel Defense Forces continued their anti-terror sweep throughout the West Bank last night capturing 8 Palestinians accused of terrorist activity, a military source told the Jerusalem Post. Golani, Paratrooper and special forces arrested 3 men in Jenin, 2 in Nablus, 1 in Takilya, 1 in Tulkarm and 1 terrorist was captured and placed in custody in Bethlehem. An IDF patrol came under automatic weapons fire this morning near the Egyptian-Gaza border. The Givati and reserve force returned fire, a military source...

A suicide bombing was thwarted early Saturday morning when an IDF reservists force discovered two suicide bomb explosive belts laying in an open field near the West Bank city of Tulkarm. At about the same time, an IDF paratroop unit arrested a Palestinian in Tulkarm's refugee camp, who, according to suspicion, was to have carried out a suicide attack in Israel in the near future. The explosives belts discovered were very large, and were detonated in a controlled explosion by security forces, Israel Radio reported.

IDF troops arrested two American citizens and a Palestinian in the West Bank city of Tulkarm Saturday afternoon. The two American women, members of a pro-Palestinian activist movement, were arrested by troops after it was found that they were in the area illegally. The pro-Palestinian activists were handed over to Police after consultations with the Interior Ministry, who will most likely have the women deported. The IDF's anti-terror operations in the West Bank city of Tulkarm continued Saturday morning, focusing on the city's refugee camp. A large number of IDF paratroopers, armored units and Border Police entered the refugee camp...

The IDF's anti-terror operations in the West Bank city of Tulkarm continued Saturday afternoon, focusing on the city's refugee camp. A large number of IDF paratroopers, armored units and Border Police entered the refugee camp Friday night after Israel's security establishment received warnings that terrorist groups in Tulkarm were planning to set out for suicide attacks against Israeli targets from the city. The forces are reportedly conducting house-to-house searches for wanted terrorists and weapons. The operation, nicknamed "Root Canal", which started Friday night, is aimed at uprooting the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror infrastructure, which security sources say has flowered...

Mar. 13, 2003 Paratrooper killed in Tulkarm clash buried By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF St.-Sgt. Assaf Moshe Fuchs, 21, of Kibbutz Gvat, who was killed during a gun battle between paratroopers and Palestinian terrorists in Seida, northeast of Tulkarm, early Wednesday morning Was buried Thursday in his Kibbutz. Fuchs was given the middle name Moshe after his father's twin brother, who was killed during the Yom Kippur War. "We never imagined it would happen to our family again," said his mother, Shula.