A Border Police officer was killed and three others wounded by a roadside bomb, and seven Palestinians were killed in an airstrike during a raid overnight Saturday in the northern West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp.
Sgt. Shay Germay, 19, was in a vehicle hit by a roadside bomb during the raid, along with three of her comrades. One was seriously wounded, while the other officers two were lightly hurt, according to Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces and police said forces entered Jenin for a counterterrorism operation, when an explosive device planted on the side of a road hit the Border Police vehicle.
The IDF said that during the evacuation of the wounded officers, an attack helicopter carried out an airstrike against a group of Palestinian gunmen who were hurling explosives at troops.
“Six terrorists were killed in the strike,” the IDF said on Sunday morning.
The Palestinian Authority health ministry said a total of seven people were killed in the strike, with one succumbing to his wounds later on Sunday.
