Operation Home and Garden: Terrorist Weapons found in Jenin (IDF)
Israel’s “Operation Home and Garden” has come to an end. The only battle fatality suffered by the IDF during the two-day operation came Tuesday night as troops left the city. Master Sergeant David Yehuda Yitzchak of the Egoz infantry unit was killed by gunfire.
The operation was launched before dawn Monday morning against terrorist infrastructure located in the Jenin refugee camp as well as in other parts of the city.
The IDF, together with the Israel Border Police under intelligence gathered by the Shin Bet (General Security Services) located, confiscated, or destroyed thousands of weapons in the area of the refugee camp and the city of Jenin; including explosive devices, different types of ammunition, weapons and laboratories for the making of explosives.
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Over 300 suspects were interrogated by the security forces; 30 of them were arrested.
14 apartments and control rooms that were used for terrorism were located and destroyed.
Six explosive laboratories were located and destroyed and in them more than 300 explosive devices, materials for making charges and other weapons were found.
10 launchers used for attacking armored vehicles, 24 M-16 rifles, eight pistols, and hundreds of bullets for various types of weapons were either confiscated or destroyed.
Hundreds of thousands of terrorist funds in cash were confiscated.
Dozens of kilograms of chemical materials for making explosives were confiscated.
Six underground shafts and two munitions pits were located and they contained many weapons.
Weapons were found hidden in apartments, in a mosque, in hiding holes in civilian areas, and in vehicles.
Israel’s Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant commented Tuesday night on Operation Home and Garden against terrorist bases in Jenin.
“In the last two years, Jenin has become a factory for the production of terrorism, in the last two days it has ended,” he said.
“What we are doing now in Jenin and what we did two months ago in Gaza, we will know how to duplicate and copy wherever needed,” added Gallant.
“Anyone who tries to harm Israeli citizens will pay a price – we will reach him, all the way to the bedroom, arrest him and bring him to justice.”
DF Chief Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halev on Operation Home and Garden stated, “Jenin has become a city of refuge for terrorists, especially the refugee camp, and we are stopping this in the operation. Thanks to the fact that we hit the terrorists, we arrested many and destroyed the much of their infrastructure and ordinance, the ordinance that harms both Israeli citizens and IDF soldiers.”
Halevi said that if need be in the future “We will know how to enter where we want, when we need and when we choose.”
“There will be no safe place for terrorists – and whoever escaped today we will make sure to find him tomorrow,” he pledged.
