An Israeli Border Police officer died of wounds sustained during a counter-terror operation overnight Saturday in the northern Samaria city of Jenin, the police announced on Sunday morning.
Shay Germay, 19, from the northern city of Karmiel, was in a vehicle that was hit by an explosive device during operational activity in the refugee camp. Germay and three other occupants of the vehicle were were evacuated to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital. The other three Border Police officers were in serious, moderate and light condition, respectively.
“The Israel Police will stand by the bereaved family and accompany them forever,” the police said in a statement, adding that 60 police officers have been killed since the start of the war against Hamas on Oct. 7.
During the raid, an aerial drone eliminated six Palestinian terrorists throwing explosives at the Israeli forces.
Since Oct. 7, approximately 2,600 terror suspects have been arrested in Judea and Samaria, of whom approximately 1,300 are affiliated with Hamas.
במהלך פעילות כוחות הביטחון הלילה במחנה הפליטים ג’נין רכב צבאי של מג”ב עלה על מטען מוטמן, כתוצאה מכך נהרגה לוחמת מג”ב ונפצעו מספר לוחמים נוספים באורחים שונים.
במהלך הפעילות כלי טיס תקף חוליית מחבלים שהשליכה מטענים על הכוחות שפעלו במרחב וסיכנה אותם. חוסלו 6 מחבלים בתקיפה>> pic.twitter.com/yFf9NQlUWr— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) January 7, 2024
Israeli killed in Samaria terror shooting
In related news, an Israeli man was killed on Sunday morning in a shooting along Route 465, between the towns of Ofra and Eli in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
Magen David Adom paramedics said the victim, an Arab Israeli man in his 30s, was unconscious and without a pulse when they arrived at the scene.
He was declared dead shortly thereafter.
Israeli forces launched a manhunt for the terrorist.
The fatality was later identified as Ammar Mansour of the Beit Hanina neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem.
Last Sunday, two Israelis were wounded in a terrorist stabbing at the Mishor Adumim industrial zone, located east of Jerusalem in Judea.
MDA paramedics treated the victims, both security guards, at the scene before evacuating them, fully conscious and in stable condition, to the capital’s Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus.
MDA said a 24-year-old woman was in good-to-moderate condition, while a man in his 20s sustained minor wounds in the attack.
