Yamam officer was wounded and five gunmen were killed amid a raid in West Bank town of Dayr al-Ghusun earlier today, police and the IDF say.
A Yamam officer was wounded and five gunmen were killed amid a raid in West Bank town of Dayr al-Ghusun earlier today, police and the IDF say.
The IDF and police in a joint statement say troops operated in the town, near Tulkarem, to eliminate a terror cell.
Five members of the cell, who were holed up in a building, were killed following a battle that lasted some 12 hours, the statement says.
After coming under fire from the building, the troops carried out a tactic known as “pressure cooker” that involves escalating the volume of fire directed at a building to force suspects to come out.
Armored bulldozers demolished part of the building, troops fired several shoulder-launched missiles at the structure, and a Hermes 450 drone carried out a number of airstrikes.
Troops also seized several weapons amid the raid, the IDF says.
The wounded officer of police's elite Yamam counter-terrorism unit was taken to a hospital for further treatment.
