On Wednesday, during an arrest operation in Nablus, Israeli police came under fire, resulting in a gunfight that reportedly claimed the lives of ten Palestinians.
The operation’s objectives, three terrorists, were holed up in a building in the Old City (kasbah) in the center of the Palestinian Authority-run city of Samaria when gunmen attacked IDF soldiers.
Troops encircled a house where the Lions’ Den terrorists, wanted men, were hiding out and demanded that they surrender.
Instead, the suspects started firing from the building, which prompted the soldiers to retaliate.
During the raid, Palestinians reportedly launched firebombs and stones at the soldiers.
During the arrest raid, all three wanted men were reportedly slain; two died inside, while the third attempted to flee before being shot. Later, soldiers discovered a weapons cache inside the structure.
Israel suffered no casualties.
Husam Aslim, 24, one of the leaders of the Lion’s Den organization, who executed shooting and IED attacks and captured the IDF St.-Sg Ido Baruch killers, was one of the three wanted individuals. Ido Baruch, who was detained by Israeli security forces last week; Muhammad a-Fatah, 24, a member of Islamic Jihad who engaged in shooting assaults against IDF personnel in Judea and Samaria; and Walid Dahil, 24, a Lions’ Den gang member who involved in shooting at IDF personnel in Judea and Samaria.
A spokesperson of P.A. Chief Mahmoud Abbas called on the Biden administration to “take quick action and exert effective pressure on the Israeli government to cease its relentless aggression against our people” on Wednesday.
He also denounced “the crime committed by the occupying troops in the city of Nablus.”
A spate of Palestinian attacks continues as Israel continues its counterterrorism offensive.
Earlier this month, Yaakov Israel Paley, 6, his brother Asher Menachem Paley, 8, and Alter Shlomo Lederman, 20, perished in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem’s Ramot district.
A soldier from Israel named St.-Sgt. At a checkpoint leading to Shuafat in northeastern Jerusalem, a terrorist strike left 22-year-old Asil Sawaed with injuries that led to his death.
Late in January, a terrorist gun incident at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Ya’akov neighborhood resulted in seven fatalities and numerous injuries.
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