The IDF carried out an operation and arrested detaining at least 15 terror suspects in the village of Ya'bed and the refugee camp near the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday morning, following the deadly terror attack in Tel Aviv that claimed the lives of two young victims.
Clashes with local Palestinian youth broke out as the troops entered the village. No injuries have been reported to any of the troops thus far.
Local militants, opened fire on the troops as they entered the area.
According to Palestinian sources, an Islamic Jihad activists was killed, and an additional 13 injured.
This operation marks the second morning in a row that the IDF carries out a mission in this area, resulting in exchanges of gunfire.
The military said that special forces of the IDF and Border Police, along with Shin Bet security agents, entered the Jenin refugee camp, where the terrorist responsible for the murderous terror attack in Tel Aviv - Ra’ad Hazem - had lived.
"During special forces operations, the IDF used riot control measures to disperse demonstrators including the use of fire. The IDF also apprehended a local Palestinian after he hurled an explosive device at the troops," the military said.
Though Hazem himself was killed several hours after the attack, the soldiers sought to detain members of his family for investigation, including his father, who fled the scene and refused to turn himself in. Meanwhile, the IDF mapped the home for future demolition.
The terrorists' father was a retired high ranking officer of the Palestinian Authority security forces.
In the operation on Sunday, the IDF also confiscated weapons from an identified Islamic Jihad activists, and after he was wounded, evacuated him to the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
The IDF also said that their forces late on Saturday identified a suspicious car attempting to cross over into Israel, after a bag containing weapons, was thrown out of it.
IDF chief of staff Aviv Kochavi on Friday, said the IDF was responsible for the terrorist succeeding in breaching the partition fence and reaching Tel Aviv. Kochavi was addressing troops deployed to the area.
"The event didn't need to happen. Our mission is very simple - we need to stop the terror and return security and a feeling of safety. We will do everything we can and must, when and where it is neede," Kochavi said.
First published: 08:52, 04.10.22