During the past week, IDF forces, Samaria and Judea District Police and Border Police, guided by Shin Bet intelligence, operated in dozens of villages throughout the West Bank and arrested 70 wanted individuals, according to the IDF spokesperson. In the Samaria Brigade area, 25 wanted individuals were arrested. In the village of Saida in the Menashe Brigade area, a central Hamas terrorist who planned to carry out a bombing attack against Israeli civilians was arrested under Shin Bet guidance. In another operation in Qabatiya village, forces from the brigade and Paratroopers Reconnaissance Unit arrested several terrorists and destroyed an improvised explosive device. Additionally, the forces arrested dozens of wanted individuals in the Etzion, Ephraim and Benjamin Brigades.

