The IDF and the Shin Bet security agency have canceled nine arrest operations in the West Bank in the past two days due to a lack of capacity in Israeli prisons to process Palestinian security suspects, Channel 12 reports.
“The failure of Minister [Itamar] Ben Gvir, who is responsible for national security, to deal with the issue of prison space, endangers national security and it won’t be long until it costs human life,” the network cites a security source as saying.
The issue has been ongoing since Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza, with the Shin Bet repeatedly complaining that it has been forced to send prisoners back to the Strip due to a lack of jail space.
The IDF said earlier today that over the past week, troops killed more than 35 gunmen in the West Bank and detained some 45 amid an operation in the Jenin, Tulkarem and Far’a areas. The operation aims to dismantle Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror networks in the northern West Bank.
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