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I'm Jean Bachelor.

We welcome Joe Truzmann of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, an up-to-date headline from

the region, Joe.

IDF says it carried out drone strike against Palestinian gunman in West Bank.

The military says it will provide further details on the strike soon enough.

Now Joe, the IDF was in the West Bank for some days and the results were a lot of KIA, a lot of captured, and the suppression of some aspects of the

Hamas, some aspects of Hezbollah, some gangs I can't name right now. There was also talk

about smugglers' routes coming through the West Bank. So this latest drone strike,

is this something we will see continually? Something like mowing the

lawn we have to hit them again and again before they reorganize? Good day to you Joe.

All right good day. So,'re you're right here what unfortunately what

what we've observed over the last actually for more than three years now is

the IDF conducting these near daily counterterrorism raids in the West Bank.

Now what happened over the last several weeks we saw this but there was this broad military operation

especially in the northern West Bank and what the IDF was doing they were targeting

these terrorist organizations Hamas Islamic jihad and others that have essentially they've entrenched themselves in the

Northern West Bank.

And how have they done this?

They've been doing it with support from Iran, they've been doing it because the Palestinian Authority hasn't been

basically enforcing the law, all right? So they've taken this opportunity to do it to

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