[IsraelTimes] 2 suspects arrested inside Israel, one detained in northern West Bank; operation carried out by elite police counterterror unit, Shin Bet agents and IDF soldiers
Security forces on Saturday morning arrested three wanted members of a terror cell who had been plotting an imminent attack, according to a joint statement released Saturday afternoon by Israel Police, the Shin Bet and the IDF.
The forces received the initial intelligence about the suspects’ whereabouts from the Shin Bet, the statement said, which led to a major joint operation carried out on Saturday morning.
According to the statement, officers in the police’s Yamam counter-terror unit and Shin Bet agents arrested two suspects within Israeli territory in Barta’a, an Arab village bisected by the Green Line.
Later that day, IDF soldiers disguised as civilians raided the home of another member of the cell in the northern West Bank, arresting him, the statement said.
The three detained suspects are to be questioned by Shin Bet officials, according to the statement.
Last week, the Shin Bet said they arrested over 60 Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
operatives over the past few months as part of one of the largest crackdowns on a West Bank terror network in recent years.
A senior Shin Bet official called the operation the "largest and most complex investigation by the Shin Bet in the Judea and Samaria area in the past decade," the Biblical term for the West Bank.
Indictments were filed against those suspects, accusing them of severe crimes, including heading a terror organization, and the equivalent of attempted murder and attempted conspiracy to commit murder.
Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas led a devastating invasion of southern Israel from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip that triggered the ongoing war in the enclave, troops have arrested some 6,000 Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or snuffies carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 51 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
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