West Bank: Israel kills 5 Palestinian in Mosque
Israel said on Thursday that it had killed five Palestinian militants hiding in a mosque as counterterrorism raids continued for a second day in the West Bank.
The gunmen, who had sought refuge in a mosque in the city of Tulkarm, included a senior militant with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Israeli military said. Mohammed Jaber was said to have commanded a wing of the group in a West Bank refugee camp and had reportedly survived several attempts to kill him.
The army said on Wednesday that in its largest operation in the West Bank for 20 years it had already killed at least nine militants, three of whom have been identified by Hamas as its members.
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