Israel targets West Bank with new wave of strikes and assassinations –The IDF has launched a significant “counterterrorism operation” in response to a failed suicide bombing attempt in Tel Aviv | 28 Aug 2024 | Israel has killed around a dozen suspected militants in a series of airstrikes and raids in the occupied West Bank, as well as an assassination near the Syrian-Lebanese border, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Wednesday. The strikes allegedly targeted members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group. Israeli forces launched what they called a “counterterrorism operation” in the West Bank settlements of Jenin and Tulkarm in the early hours of Wednesday morning.