The complicated Thursday morning operation to catch the terrorists who murdered Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee on Passover entailed using inventive methods that included undercover agents dressed as women, drones that dropped explosives, and a dog that was unfortunately killed in action.

After receiving exact intelligence information that indicated the exact location of Hamas operatives Hassan Katan and Maad Mitzri deep in Shechem (Nablus), the IDF, Shabak and police moved in.

A video uploaded to social media showed a small force of seven people dressed in civilian clothes walking purposefully down the small streets of the Palestinian-controlled city’s Kasbah (marketplace). Some of them were outfitted as women, wearing long, flowing robes and the head-covering known as a hijab. Another group of four men is also seen striding down a narrow alleyway, two of them leading the way dressed as garbagemen and carrying a big trashcan between them and at one point waving a yellow cloth to seemingly indicate a certain doorway to the others.

Some 200 heavily armed troops were involved in all in the operation, with some setting up a protective perimeter and others participating in the actual raid on the hideout. One of the participants was a dog named Django, who had gone on hundreds of counter-terror operations. A heavy firefight broke out as Palestinian terrorists tried to help their targeted comrades, and Django was killed, according to Israeli police, while protecting his unit from the enemy’s guns.

Image - IDF Spokesperson's Unit