Israeli troops killed three Palestinian terrorist in a fire exchange in the West Bank early on Shabbos. Four Israeli troops were wounded in the fire exchange, one of them seriously.
Ynet reports that Lieut.-Col. S., a commander in the elite Yamam was evacuated by helicopter to Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, where he has been sedated and put on a respirator. Security sources said the commander has been an integral part of nearly every major terror operation and arrest raid in the past 20 years.
The Shin Bet domestic security agency added that the three terrorist were “ticking time bombs” who were responsible for at least one terror shooting against Israeli forces in the West Bank and were planning to carry out several additional attacks in the immediate future.
{Matzav.com Israel}
