The Israel Defense Forces killed three Palestinian terrorists, arrested 72 terror suspects and confiscated incitement materials throughout Judea and Samaria over the past week, the military said on Saturday.
The three terrorists were killed in the Palestinian villages of Tammun and Anzah in the Jenin area in northern Samaria, the IDF said.
Troops in the Etzion Brigade/Bethlehem sector, south of Jerusalem, arrested eight Palestinian terrorists, two of whom hurled Molotov cocktails at Israeli civilians, the army added.
In Beit Ummar, seven miles northwest of Hebron, a “Carlo”-type submachine gun was confiscated.
Flags and incitement materials encouraging terrorism were confiscated by Binyamin Brigade troops in Birzeit, north of Ramallah, the military said.
These materials “illustrate the murderous education for terror” in the Palestinian Authority, a phenomenon the IDF “views with severity” and “acts forcefully against,” the army added.
Following the discovery and neutralization of a rocket in the Palestinian city of Tulkarem, in western Samaria, on Tuesday evening, the IDF said on Saturday that it has enhanced its operational and intelligence efforts to locate rockets and launchers in Judea and Samaria.
Additional terrorist suspects were apprehended in the Samaria Brigade sector.
All Palestinian suspects and the weapons that were seized were transferred to the Judea and Samaria District Police and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) for further handling.
On Sept. 19, Israeli security forces arrested a group of terrorists in Samaria who had attempted to fire a rocket from the Ramallah area the previous week.
Three suspected terrorists were arrested in a raid on a building where troops discovered two launch-ready rockets, dozens of improvised explosive devices and other evidence linking the suspects to attempts to manufacture projectiles, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
