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IDF Anti-Terror Operations Transform Tulkarm
(Ynet News) Elisha Ben Kimon - IDF Lt.-Col. Netanel Shamkeh says 3 1/2 months after the launch of operations initially focused on Jenin and later expanded to Tulkarm and Nur Shams, the landscape in the northern West Bank has been transformed. "Of roughly 100 terrorists who once controlled the [Nur Shams] camp, only 20 to 30 remain, either in hiding or on the run. The entrances, once booby-trapped and patrolled by armed men under Hamas and Islamic Jihad flags, are now quiet. Today I can walk through the area unarmed." Life continues in the nearby city of Tulkarm, where markets are open and schools have resumed. "People used to throw stones at us and open fire. Now they understand we're not going anywhere," Shamkeh said.