Soldiers operating in the Jenin refugee camp discovered tunnel shafts booby-trapped with explosives. Three wanted Palestinians were arrested and troops seized illegal weapons.
The three-man cell, led by Mohammed Jalamneh, was hiding inside the Ibn Sina Hospital. Soldiers found a gun on Jalamneh, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israeli security forces uncovered a tunnel shaft rigged with explosive charges in the Jenin refugee camp as 19 Palestinians were arrested in counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria on Sunday night.
After 60 hours, the counter-terrorism operation in Jenin ended. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) reported that its soldiers, together with Border Police units, completed what it called an "extensive operation to counter-terrorism" in the refugee camp and in the city of Jenin.
The IDF said that its combat engineering machines worked to uncover charges buried under the roads (Improvised Explosive Devices) intended to harm its forces.
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) together with Israel's Border Police and the Shin Bet (Israel's anti-terror General Security Service) began on Tuesday an operation to counter terrorism in the area of the Jenin refugee camp and the city of Jenin in Samaria.
Israeli security forces raided the Jenin refugee camp on Wednesday, destroying tunnel shafts and laboratories for preparing explosives, the Israel Defence Forces said.
Five Palestinian terrorists were killed and an explosives laboratory in the Jenin refugee camp was destroyed in an overnight counter-terror operation, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Sunday morning.
The Israel Defence Forces carried out two "brigade-level" raids in the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp and Balata refugee camp on Sunday and detained suspects and seized weapons, The Times of Israel reported.
The Israel Defense Forces said on Friday morning that five Palestinian terrorists were killed during an overnight counter-terror raid in Jenin. The military said several terrorists were chased to a local hospital where they were arrested while trying to hide.