IDF forces carried out a counterterrorism operation overnight Wednesday in the Balata “refugee camp” in Shechem.
Local terrorists opened fire at the IDF soldiers and threw explosives. The soldiers returned fire and an Air Force aircraft attacked two armed terrorists who were endangering the troops with a drone, killing both of them.
One of the terrorists was Wael Misha, 18, who was released from an Israeli prison in November as part of the ceasefire/hostage deal with Hamas. He was arrested and imprisoned after he accepted money from an Islamic Jihad terrorist to manufacture explosives.
Earlier this week, an Israeli was seriously wounded by Tariq Daoud, an 18-year-old Hamas terrorist who was also released as part of the deal in November.
In the video below, Misha can be seen shortly after his release in November yelling laudatory phrases about Muhammad Deif and the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military arm.
IDF forces leave the area after the completion of the operation:
Also overnight Wednesday, IDF and Border Police officers secured the entry of mispallelim to Kever Yosef in Shechem.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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What a clown army.
They release terrorists, and then send soldiers under fire into dangerous enemy territory to fight with them.
And they are still continuing these “peace talks.”
Insanity.
Going to Daven there now is surely not permitted al pi Venishmartem, no?
… Maybe leave it for the poskim… dunno…
I wonder bderech hateva the difference amount of lives being killed if we exchange prisoners for hostages versus not exchanging.
Why do they allow people who have proven themselves to be determined terrorists to remain free after they are released from prison because they were forced to do so because Hamas took hostages and demanded his release. This is besides the fact he still has the remainder of his sentence to serve. There isn’t a doubt in the world that if some terrorist or criminal organization took an American hostage and demanded some of their people be released from US prison, the Americans would rearrest them as soon as the hostage was released. In addition if Israel would rearrest these terrorists Hamas would learn once and for all that taking hostages to force Israel to release their people from prison doesn’t work to keep them out of prison for more than a day or two. The fact that Israel felt bound not to rearrest the hundreds of convicted murderers who they were forced to release to get Shalit back boggles the mind.