The Shin Bet security agency is recommending to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that leaders of the settler rampages in West Bank villages be detained under administrative detention, Hebrew media reports.
The recommendations come after hundreds of settlers rampaged through several Palestinian towns and villages, setting fire to dozens of cars and homes following a deadly terror attack yesterday near the West Bank settlement of Eli.
The unsourced reports on both Channel 12 and the Kan public broadcaster say the Shin Bet believes that detaining the ringleaders will help restore calm.
The controversial practice of administrative detention, currently used by the defense minister against terror suspects, has individuals held without charge for up to six months at a time. The detentions can be renewed indefinitely while allowing military prosecutors to keep suspects from being able to see the evidence against them.
Administrative detention is primarily used with Palestinians — about 1,000 of whom are currently held in custody under the practice. The practice has also been used with a handful of Jewish Israeli terror suspects in recent years.
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