Israeli Forces Raid Jenin in Sweep for Militants: Reuters

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Israeli Forces Raid Jenin in Sweep for Militants
Mon Mar 28, 2005 01:19 AM ET

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces raided the Palestinian city of Jenin Monday, arresting eight militants Israeli security sources said were involved in making crude rockets and mortars for attacks against Israeli towns. The raid was a rare invasion into a West Bank city by the Israeli military since the army said it would carry out only essential operations after Israel and the Palestinian Authority declared a de facto truce in February.
An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded by an explosive device during the operation in which five Islamic Jihad militants were arrested in Jenin and three in a nearby village.

Israeli forces located a workshop last month on the outskirts of Jenin where they found components for crude rockets capable of being fired at the nearby Israeli city of Afula.

Israeli media said the militants arrested early Monday were connected to the cell that had produced the rocket parts, adding the militants were trying to produce munitions similar to the Qassam rockets that militants in Gaza have regularly fired at the Israeli town of Sderot and Jewish settlements in Gaza.

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