The Israeli army announced on Sunday that during an airstrike it killed “terrorists” hiding in a basement of the al-Anshar mosque in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank.
“The army carried out an airstrike against a group of terrorists belonging to members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who are responsible for several terrorist attacks in recent months and who were organizing a new, imminent terrorist attack,” the Israeli army said in a statement. Mahmoud al-Saadi, director of the Red Crescent in Jenin, said one person was killed and three others were wounded in the strike.
According to the Israeli army, which carried out the operation in cooperation with Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, the mosque was being used as a “command center for planning attacks” and “a base for carrying them out”. This “terrorist cell” had organized what the army said was an explosive device attack on 14 October near the fence separating Israel from the West Bank, with no casualties.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health, for its part, announced that two men were killed in an attack in Jenin. Elsewhere in the West Bank, a Palestinian man was killed in a military raid in Nablus and another was killed in Tubas, the ministry added.