The IDF discovered a laboratory for the manufacture of explosive devices and a terrorist operations room while searching inside the Abu Bakr al Siddiq Mosque in the Jordan Valley, IDF Arabic Spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote on X, formerly Twitter, early on Thursday morning.
The lab was discovered during IDF activities to thwart terrorism in the Far’a camp in the Jordan Valley.
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Terrorists had used the mosque as a base to carry out terrorist attacks against IDF forces, Adraee said.
IDF defuse immediate threat to civilian, and military lives
While searching the facility, the IDF found explosive devices which it deemed “too dangerous to use or even move.”
Assessing the situation and perceiving an immediate threat to IDF forces and civilians near the mosque, the IDF said it took the decision to immediately destroy the devices,” the spokesperson stated.
No damage was sustained to the prayer hall as a result of the explosives’ destruction, however a fire broke out. The fire was extinguished.
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