By Israel army strikes tunnel beneath mosque in West Bank’s Jenin
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) delivered a preventive strike on a tunnel stretching beneath a mosque in the West Bank’s Jenin, the IDF’s press office announced on Sunday.
According to the IDF, the tunnel was used by militants of Palestinian radical movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who plotted an attack.
The IDF stated that “In a joint Israel Defense Forces and General Security Services operation, the Israel Defense Forces carried out an airstrike targeting an underground terrorist facility located on the territory of the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin.” The mosque accommodated terrorist cells of “Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which were planning to carry out a terrorist attack imminent terrorist attack.”
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi to Golani commanders:
“We will enter the Gaza Strip. We will begin an operational and professional mission to destroy the Hamas operatives, the Hamas infrastructure, and we will also keep in our minds the images, scenes, and the fallen from Shabbat two weeks ago. Gaza is complex, Gaza is dense, the enemy is preparing a lot of things there, but we are preparing things for them as well.“
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