Israeli officials said the Al-Ansar mosque in the city of Jenin was being used as a base of operations by militants in the West Bank.
Israeli forces conducted an airstrike on the Al-Ansar mosque in Jenin, a city in the northern West Bank, which they said was being used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants „who were organizing an imminent terror attack.“
In a joint statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Securities Authority on Sunday morning, officials said the cell that they claim had been operating out of the building was „responsible for several terror attacks over the last months,“ including one on October 14 in which a remotely controlled explosive device was detonated near a security fence.
Israeli authorities claimed the mosque had been „used by the terrorists as a command center to plan the attacks and as a base for their execution“ since July, and said that the militants based there had been „neutralized.“
Unlike the Gaza Strip, which is run by Hamas, the West Bank is run by the Palestinian Authority and has IDF forces deployed within its borders.
