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The strike killed several Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members, including men involved in attacks on Israeli forces.
Jerusalem and Beirut have initiated negotiations toward settling their border disputes.
“This is intended to protect the residents of the north, regardless of any future negotiations over disputed border points,” the Defense Ministry said.
“Troops have been reinforced and wanted suspects have been apprehended.”
A day earlier, an Israeli Air Force craft attacked a group of terrorists trying to position explosives in the same general area.
Over the past week, forces killed three Palestinian terrorists and arrested over 100 wanted suspects.
The group approached troops near Beit She’an in a threatening manner.
“Instead of merely reacting to developments, we now see an Israel that actively shapes events,” Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak tells JNS.
“This U.N. report reflects the rampant anti-Israel disease that has infected U.N. agencies,” wrote the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Israel’s armed forces “will continue to act to remove any threat to the State of Israel,” the IDF said in a statement.
The enemy tried to plant a bomb, the army said.
The group planned and managed its terrorist activities from the location, the IDF said.
