Israel Busts Hamas Terror Network in Bethlehem, Nabs 50 Terrorists
IDF: “One of the terrorist cells was in an advanced stage of operational readiness, prepared to carry out attacks within the immediate timeframe.”
Israel has busted Hamas’ terrorist infrastructure in the Judean city of Bethlehem, capturing more than 50 terrorists in a series of raids. “Israeli security forces have successfully dismantled a significant Hamas terrorist network operating in the Bethlehem area of the West Bank, authorities announced, preventing imminent attacks on both civilians and security personnel,” Israel’s i24NEWS TV channel reported Thursday.
By dismantling the terror network, the security services have thwarted a ticking time bomb, Israeli media reports say. Hamas operatives had amassed weapons to carry out terror attacks against the Israeli soldiers and civilians. “One of the terrorist cells was in an advanced stage of operational readiness, prepared to carry out attacks within the immediate timeframe,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement. “The thwarting of this infrastructure prevented significant terror attacks, which could have taken a heavy toll on the lives of many Israeli civilians and soldiers.”
IDF, ISA, and Israel Police dismantled a Hamas terrorist stronghold in Bethlehem. Over 50 terrorists apprehended after 15+ operations. Weapons seized, including M16s. The operation thwarted imminent attacks on civilians and security forces. pic.twitter.com/Bp1xtUO42d
— Israel National News – Arutz Sheva (@ArutzSheva_En) November 13, 2025
“According to the Shin Bet interrogations and probe into the plot, there were masterminds who systematically recruited and built multiple terror cells in order to carry out a series of shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and the IDF,” the Jerusalem Post added.
The raids come as a big blow to Hamas’s terrorist operations outside Gaza. The newspaper observed that “[g]iven the size of the multiple cells, the bust may be a strategic setback to Hamas and other terror groups … at a time when they are weaker in Gaza.”
Israel’s Ynetnews reported the details of the counter-terrorism operation:
The Shin Bet, in coordination with the IDF and police, announced Thursday that they had successfully dismantled a major Hamas terrorist infrastructure operating in the Bethlehem area, thwarting plans for imminent shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces.
The months-long investigation led to the arrest of approximately 40 Hamas operatives during more than 15 operations, carried out by IDF reservists from the Etzion Brigade, the elite Duvdevan unit and counterterror forces. During the raids, weapons including M16 rifles were seized.
According to Shin Bet, senior Hamas operatives had recruited and organized terror cells, procured weapons, and actively planned to launch attacks. One of the cells was reportedly in an advanced state of readiness to carry out shootings in the immediate future.
Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ and King David, has been turned into a terrorist stronghold under the rule of the PLO-led Palestinian Authority. In April 2002, during the Second Intifada terror campaign, Palestinian terrorists, “armed to the teeth with explosives,” occupied the Church of the Nativity and took 200 civilians, including a large number of Christian monks, hostage. The 38-day siege of one of Christianity’s holiest sites ended with Israel granting safe passage to dozens of terrorists, most of them belonging to the PLO-affiliated Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.
In recent weeks, the IDF, ISA, and the Israel Police dismantled a Hamas terrorist stronghold from which terrorists operated in the Bethlehem area and planned to carry out shooting attacks against security forces and Israeli civilians.
The IDF apprehended more than 50 terrorists,… https://t.co/L6Bkhx2OLK pic.twitter.com/sLdIix2ySV
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 13, 2025
Israel hits more Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon
With Iran-backed Hezbollah trying to rebuild its terrorist infrastructure along the border, IDF fighter jets again hit terror targets in South Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Thursday.
In the past two weeks, the IDF has intensified drone and airstrikes against Hezbollah. This was the latest wave of airstrikes to deter the Shia-Islamic terrorist group from reestablishing itself after the 8-week-long Israeli ground operation nearly one year ago.
The Times of Israel reports:
The IDF says it carried out airstrikes against a Hezbollah weapons depot and an adjacent underground site belonging to the terror group in southern Lebanon earlier this morning.
The infrastructure was located next to a public sports and leisure center, “serving as yet another example of Hezbollah’s cynical use of Lebanese civilians as human shields for its operations conducted from within civilian areas,” the military says.
Another Hezbollah site in southern Lebanon was also targeted in an airstrike this morning, the IDF adds.
The military says Hezbollah is continuing its efforts to restore its infrastructure in Lebanon, and the presence of such sites and the terror group’s activity in the area “constitute a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
מוקדם יותר הבוקר, חיל-האוויר תקף, מחסן אמצעי לחימה ותשתית טרור תת קרקעית אשר שימשו את חיזבאללה במרחב דרום לבנון.
תשתיות הטרור שהותקפו מוקמו בסמוך לאוכלוסיה אזרחית, ומהוות דוגמה נוספת לשימוש הציני שעושה חיזבאללה באזרחי לבנון כמגן אנושי לפעולות הארגון מתוך נכסים אזרחים>>> pic.twitter.com/IRbTKVgpNt
— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) November 13, 2025
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The hamas prisoners will be released for one Israeli in next prisoner exchange.
Hopefully not.
Nice peace deal you got there, would be a shame if anything happened to it
miga
Should have killed them all. Dead terrorists are never coin for a hostage exchange since Israel doesn’t hold onto their bodies.
Unfortunately anyone who did that would find themselves charged with murder. Until Israel shakes off the dictatorship of the supreme court, the so-called “attorney general”, the IDF JAG, and the rest of the DOJ establishment, it has no hope. And when it made a feeble, almost symbolic attempt at it three years ago, it got weekly riots that eventually encouraged Hamas to strike.
Bigger news
Traitor Republican Congressmen like MTG need to be primaried, then removed from the conservative movement.
We already knew that Trump and Epstein were friends. Trump is not inspector Javert he is not expected to know who all the criminals are by sight.
Anyone selectively releasing emails to push the conspiracy theory needs to be an ex congressman.
Sorry but this “do not read the tens of thousands of emails released during Biden and Trump read these emails pretend there aren’t any others and convict (fill in person I hate).
There is no there there on anyone named in the emails by the way, there are good reasons why they should remain hidden.
ok lets look at her stance(s):
Greene wrote on social media Monday that although she’s “not a fan” of the ACA, also known as Obamacare, she is “absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.”
She also accused lawmakers of only funding foreign wars and not doing “anything to help the American people.”
“Our country sent $30 billion to Israel in 2024 alone killing countless innocent children and sent HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS to Ukraine in the past few years. By the way, I voted NO to all of that murder!” she wrote.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-calling-republicans-asking-going-211514600.html
1) healthcare…well in the context of welfare she has a point..b/c we will be paying THAT BILL
of course if the gop had the balls there would be no obabacare
2) funding wars not helping the america people….
funding wars is not good for our economy short run or long run but sometimes we have to do so by action and NOT give it to others …….though I would do it in some cases ( like israel)
and the american people are helped by trumps tax agenda
3) israel had/has a right to get aggressive against those that are aggressive agains them and that puts the real blame of children etc being killed on the blmplo conglomerate
she of course as she correctly states that she works for her district not the wh…….
trump for the win but I still give her a nod of approval
Agreed minus the last sentence. Release the docs, all of them and end the speculation and conspiracy theories which will continue to be created and deployed to fill void intentionally created by failing to release the info to the public.
This latest ‘leak’ comprised info already public which conveniently redacted the name of the already known victim who herself had proclaimed she didn’t have anything bad to say about Trump. It was ham handed and suspiciously timed to coincide with the end of the shutdown and d/prog surrender. The internet age has broken the stranglehold on info ops the legacy media used to enjoy.
Once upon a time, not so long ago, Bethlehem was a Christian city. That is no longer the case. More examples coming soon.