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The recent announcement by Israeli intelligence that it had dismantled a Hamas-linked armed network in the West Bank came after an upsurge in armed activity, the last of which was a shooting by a Hamas-affiliated gunman in Jerusalem’s Old City, which killed one Israeli and wounded three others. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, made a link between the alleged network and an Israeli operation in September, during which three Palestinians were killed near Jerusalem and in Burqin, near Jenin. The northern West Bank district of Jenin and its surroundings have been at the centre of …