The IDF on Tuesday busted a Palestinian bank in Ramallah, the last exchange bank in the West Bank that launders terror funds, the military told The Jerusalem Post.
In a meticulously pre-planned operation, first, the undercover Duvdevan special forces, and later, IDF reservist units for the Binyamin Region, as well as border police, seized hundreds of thousands of terror funds and arrested a few individuals connected to those funds.
While the military seemed to view the gunfire on certain Palestinians as justified in self-defense, it also said that wounds to non-violent or nearby uninvolved Palestinians from the tear gas were being probed.
Local media reports said that as many as around 20 Palestinians were wounded. This brigade-level operation comes two months after a larger division-level operation against the rest of those banks a few months earlier.
According to the IDF, the goal of the operation is to further suck the oxygen out of the terror campaign in the West Bank. The operation comes days after a recent terror attack in the general vicinity that almost killed an Israeli civilian.
Recent terror near Ramallah
It also comes over two weeks after Defense Minister Israel Katz, in a post on X/Twitter, said that the number of terror attack threats in the West Bank has dropped by 80%.
The minister mentioned refugee camps such as Jenin, Tulkarm, and Nur Shams as “hotbeds of terrorism built with Iranian financing, arms, and guidance.”
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.