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Hundreds of Israeli forces enter Jenin
IDF: Action aimed at 'terror infrastructure' JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Following this week's deadly terror attack on a bus in northern Israel, hundreds of Israeli soldiers poured into the West Bank city of Jenin, searching for the "Palestinian terror infrastructure," Israel Defense Forces said. "IDF infantry, armored and engineering forces, entered the city of Jenin which is considered to be a center of Palestinian terror infrastructure and took positions in the city," an IDF spokesman said. IDF said two armed Palestinians were shot by its forces. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said three Palestinians were wounded in the Jenin refugee camp -- ages 13, 17 and 22. Dore Gold, an Israeli government spokesman, said the purpose of the ongoing operation is to prevent future terror attacks like the one in Karkur Junction on Monday that killed 14 Israelis and wounded 50 others. In that attack, a suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives next to a bus packed with passengers just before afternoon's rush hour in the northern Israeli town and blew it up. "What's important to stress is that Israel received information that the Palestinians were planning imminent attacks against Israeli civilians and the pattern of the attacks from Jenin involved huge amounts of explosives," Gold said. But a Palestinian official said Israel's action will only propagate more violence. "Israel should not [confuse] the cause and the effect," said Ghassan Khatib, Palestinian Labor Minister, who blamed "the Israel occupation and its atrocities" for the "vicious circle of violence."
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