The Israeli military said it launched an airstrike on Sunday morning (22) local time against a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin to prevent what it called “an imminent terrorist attack.”
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus told CNN that the IDF had new intelligence that “suggested that there was an imminent attack coming from a joint Hamas and Islamic Jihad” making preparations from an underground command center at the Al-Ansar mosque.
A few months ago, there was significant fighting in Jenin for approximately two days, and Conricus said that during an Israeli Forces operation there, they discovered the “terrorist” tunnel system inside the mosque.
The IDF and the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) also released a statement this Saturday (21) confirming the attack on the tunnel.
“In a joint IDF and ISA activity, the IDF conducted an airstrike on an underground terrorist compound at the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin; the mosque contained a terrorist cell of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist operatives who were organizing an imminent terrorist attack,” the statement said.
The statement said that members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were responsible for several “terrorist attacks” in recent months and were planning a new “imminent” attack.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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