IDF Seizes Senior Hamas Official in West Bank Op

11:20 AM · February 13, 2024

Excerpt Jerusalem Post jpost.com

Israeli forces from the Shin Bet, Border Police, and the IDF on Tuesday arrested Omar Faid, a senior Hamas official in charge of the terrorist organization's military infrastructure in Jenin, according to Israeli media.

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Ed Morrissey Feb 13, 2024 11:20 AM ET

This is the second operation targeting high-level Hamas targets in the West Bank in two weeks. Just as with that spectacular hostage rescue in Rafah, one has to assume that the IDF is getting very accurate and actionable intelligence on Hamas from Gaza, either from captured records or HUMINT, or both. This is how you take down an entrenched terror network -- you roll it up, and eventually the roll-up accelerates when everyone realizes the incentives have all changed.