RAMALLAH, West Financial institution: Israeli plane struck a compound beneath a mosque within the occupied West Financial institution early on Sunday (Oct 22) that the navy stated was being utilized by militants to organise assaults, and Palestinian medics stated a minimum of one individual was killed.
The Israeli air strike is a minimum of the second in current days to hit the West Financial institution, the place violence has surged since Hamas gunmen from Gaza carried out a lethal Oct 7 rampage in Israel.
Israel stated the compound beneath al-Ansar Mosque, in Jenin refugee camp, belonged to operatives from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad who had been accountable for assaults in current months.
“Intel was just lately acquired which indicated that the terrorists, (who) had been neutralized, had been organizing an imminent terror assault,” the navy stated in a press release.
The navy launched pictures that it stated confirmed an entrance to a bunker underneath the mosque. It additionally launched a diagram that it stated confirmed the place militants had saved weapons there.
Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold, was the main target of a significant Israeli navy operation earlier this 12 months.