When President Joe Biden made the decision to abruptly leave Afghanistan in August 2021, he did so without the U.S. military properly exporting or destroying warehouses full of weapons. Billions of dollars worth of equipment was left behind and now, it's showing up in the hands of terrorists attacking Israeli citizens.
"The Taliban secured a substantial arsenal of U.S. weapons and equipment, including Black Hawk helicopters, after U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021. The Israeli commander with whom Newsweek spoke said some of the U.S. small arms seized in Afghanistan have already been observed in the hands of Palestinian groups operating in the Gaza Strip," Newsweek reports.
The Israeli Defense Force has been dealing with a number of terrorist flare ups over the past year as Palestinian groups continue to attack Israeli civilians. Most recently, Islamic Jihad engaged in multi-day rocket fire against Israeli cities, eventually ending in a ceasefire after the IDF attacked in the Gaza Strip and killed a number of top terror leaders.
On Monday IDF carried out an operation in Jenin, a city in the West Bank that has become a terror hotspot similar to Gaza and Lebanon.
Today in the city of Jenin, armed suspects fired toward IDF forces from inside a mosque.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 19, 2023
Places of worship are for prayer, not to be taken over by armed gunmen. pic.twitter.com/i0aTZVE2Lx
Following the initial report regarding a counterterrorism activity in Jenin, 2 IDF soldiers and 5 Israel Border Police officers were injured.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) June 19, 2023
One of the soldiers was lightly injured and the second moderately. 2 Border Police officers are moderately injured, and 3 lightly.
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