IDF destroys Tul Karm bomb factory

IDF forces were in action in several locations in the West Bank on Friday morning, making several arrests and confiscating weapons and ammunition.

Troops also operated overnight in Tul Karm, where they blew up a house belonging to a Hamas activist arrested earlier this week. The house contained a laboratory for assembling explosive devices. Soldiers also uncovered several large explosive devices, suitcases containing explosives and cellular phones rigged up to act as remote detonators. They also found homemade explosives. The IDF has been active in Tul Karm for the past week, entering and leaving the city several times.

Palestinian sources in Hebron reported that the IDF fired missiles at a house in the south of the city, in which a wanted terrorist was holed up. The house was destroyed and the terrorist surrendered to IDF soldiers.

Early Friday morning, the IDF arrested three wanted Palestinians in Kfar Ramana, near Jenin, and an Islamic Jihad activist in Kfar T’koah, neat Bethlehem. Palestinian sources also reported that the IDF entered Azoun, east of Qalqilyah, imposed a curfew and arrested many suspects.