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A Palestinian documentation of IDF forces entering the village of Kafr Dan on Monday. Credit: Twitter Published by Haaretz

Maj. Bar Falah (Photo: Courtesy of the family)
Published by YNET News, Sept 14, 2022

Major Bar Falah [armed & in uniform] (Photo: Courtesy of the family) Published by YNET News, Sept 14, 2022
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by Jack Khoury and Yaniv Kubovich for Haaretz
Jan 2, 2023 1:39am

The Israeli military on Monday operates to demolish the homes of Palestinians who were behind the shooting that led to the death of Major Bar Falah last September at the Jalameh checkpoint near Jenin in the West Bank.

The forces operate in the Palestinian village of Kafr Dan in the northern West Bank. According to Palestinian reports, four people were wounded during the exchange of gunfire and were evacuated in moderate condition to Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin.

Major Bar Falah was deputy commander of the Nahal Brigade's Special Reconnaissance Unit.
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IDF officer killed in West Bank shootout identified as Maj. Bar Falah [Sept 2022]

by Yoav Zitun, Raanan Ben Tzur for Ynet News
|09.14.22 | 02:11

IDF officer killed in West Bank shootout identified as Maj. Bar Falah
Deputy commander of elite Nahal reconnaissance unit fired back at terrorists before being hit and collapsing due to his fatal wounds; 'Bar fought terrorism with every fiber of his being,' PM says

The IDF on Wednesday identified 30-year-old Maj. Bar Falah as the Israeli officer who was killed in an overnight shootout with Palestinian gunmen adjacent to the West Bank security barrier.

Falah, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit, fired back at the terrorists before being hit and collapsing due to his fatal wounds.

According to a preliminary probe into the incident, two suspects were spotted 15 meters away from the security barrier near the Palestinian village of Jalameh north of Jenin about two and a half hours before the shootout.

An IDF force that was dispatched to the scene flanked the suspects, at which point the terrorists opened fire at troops at close range. The soldiers returned fire and killed the assailants.

Falah's subordinate continued to lunge and fire at the terrorists even after seeing his commander hit by gunfire next to him "as part of the engagement with the enemy and completing the mission to remove the threat," according to investigators.