IDF forces in cooperation with Shin Bet and Border Police completed a brigade-level operation lasting more than three days in a cluster of five villages in Samaria. According to the IDF spokesperson, the forces arrested several terrorists who were advancing terror plots, searched dozens of suspicious buildings and confiscated weapons. Simultaneously, in the area of Al-Aroub town north of Hebron, a suspect planning an attack against Israelis was arrested, and more than 50 suspects were interrogated. Additionally, two terrorists who threw stones at Israeli families at the Tekoa junction were arrested.