WATCH: Undercover Border Guard officers eliminate terrorists

The Israel Police released footage today (Sunday) showing undercover Border Guard officers eliminating three terrorists in the Far'a refugee camp, as part of the expansion of Operation Iron Wall in northern Samaria.

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The IDF said today (Sunday) is expanding its operations in northern Samaria from Jenin to the area south of it, including the use of tanks for the first time since Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, during the Second Intifada.

Defense Minister Israel Katz responded to a Knesset parliamentary question when the operation began by saying that the experience from the war in Gaza and elsewhere has informed the course of operations in Jenin now. Katz said that Israel was abandoning the approach of weakening terrorist groups or "mowing the grass" in favor of a much more thorough effort to break up and destroy terrorist units.

The expansion of the operation south of Jenin is meant among other things to trap terrorists who may have fled the IDF's operations in Jenin proper southward.

It also comes in the wake of a massive terrorist plot to simultaneously bomb multiple buses and public locations either on Thursday evening or Friday morning, and which was only detected by an alert citizen on a bus.

Operation Iron Wall began a month ago, as part of the IDF's efforts to take a much more thorough approach to extirpating terrorism in Judea and Samaria after mostly focusing on small scale arrest raids. The operation followed a direct clash between terrorist groups and Palestinian Authority security forces which ended in stalemate.