IOF troops wound two Quds operatives, round up 9 including 4 brothers

IOF troops wound two Quds operatives, round up 9 including 4 brothers

JENIN, — Israeli occupation forces (IOF) critically wounded two operatives of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, in Kufr Dan village west of Jenin in a pre dawn raid on Wednesday.

IOF soldiers encircled a house at the outskirts of the village and engaged in an exchange of fire with the two commanders after which two ambulance cars evacuated the two, one of them Alaa Al-Ziyud was reportedly killed, while the other Bajes Hamdia was in a critical condition.

No confirmation was yet available on the death or actual condition of the two commanders who were wanted for the IOF over the past eight years.

Witnesses reported that IOF troops stormed the villages of Yamon and Seelat Al-Harthiya at the same time of the operation in nearby Kufr Dan and broke into homes for relatives of both commanders.

Local sources reported that IOF soldiers rounded up four citizens west of Ramallah city and five others north of Ramallah including four brothers.

In the Gaza Strip, IOF troops raided the northern areas of Beit Lahia to the north of the Strip and bulldozed the citizens’ cultivated land.