Border Guard, Shin Bet, and IDF forces operated in the Kasbah in Nablus (Shechem) for the purpose of arresting wanted persons who were involved in planning shooting attacks with the intention of carrying them out in the immediate future, and who were involved in the shooting attack in which IDF soldier First Sergeant Ido Baruch was killed, and in other attacks committed against Israeli forces.
In the exchange of fire, the wanted persons and other armed men were neutralized.