Undercover activities in the field (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
As soon as the Shin Bet's "golden information" arrives about the hiding place of armed wanted persons in the heart of a refugee camp, a quick situation assessment is made on the quality of the mixed force that will be sent first for the mission. The force that will be required to reach the area of the building, that will gather as much intelligence information about the area as possible, will build a critical situational picture For the continuation of the operation, a way will be leveled for the rest of the fighting forces.
The identity of the involved force will be decided, among other things, according to the level of risk arising from the willingness of the terrorists in hiding to fight to the death, the type of refugee camp and the kasbah, which may be dangerous depending on the location of the building in relation to the environment.
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Armed masked men in the refugee camp in Jenin, June 2022 (Photo: Flash 90, Nasser Ashteyeh)
First up, the most skilled and high-quality are the IMM raiders - a small handful of fighters who are defined as "virtuous individuals". Together with human and technological abilities that surpass all imagination, they constitute the home unit of the Shin Bet.
Therefore, their activation will only occur when the level of risk is the highest.
It will be based on the recommendation of the director of the Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem region of the Shin Bet, the approval of the commander of the Central Command, and the coordination of a special operations officer in the command - a special forces man himself who knows the intricacies of the heart of every infiltrator. After that, according to the level of threat, the Judea Police Infiltrators may be
selected and Samaria, and finally, the Dovdavan unit intervenes.
The identity of the assault unit selected for action is determined by the level of risk (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
As soon as the "green light" for action is received, all systems are required to follow the first and most sensitive stage.
Those who are hiding are already in a car with Palestinian identification plates.
They are dressed like the people of the camp, sharp enough and well versed in the local dialect.
With a cover version of their identity on the brink of perfection because there are always surprises, you know the different paths like the back of your hand, the shops, the local families, the characters that dominate the camp and the mood on the street including who got married yesterday.
"Each fighter and his comfort for carrying the gun," explained a veteran fighter.
"There are those who will hide it in their stomach, waist, leg, chest or in a designated bag. It depends on clothing, circumstances and practice. What is important is that at the moment of truth the weapon will be revealed in a split second and be ready to fire."
Masked people in Jenin, June 2022 (Photo: Flash 90, Nasser Ashteyeh)
On the way to the place of action, the undercover will have to pass through the innocent eyes of Palestinian citizens, but mainly through the areas under the control of the observers on the roofs, the operatives of the terrorist organizations who live in the camp as a routine and the close circle of helpers who secure the hiding apartment where the terrorists are.
Sometimes there will be a local barbershop owner on a central traffic route who will check suspicious traffic and report to the armed camp members.
After the "green light" is given by the undercover, the fighters will go from covert to overt activity at a speed of 200 km/h. Every second is critical and important since the wanted are able to escape or prepare for an attack. According to Palestinian publications, in those seconds uniformed IDF fighters will enter in distressed vehicles.
Each such entry will be accompanied by fighters of the Shin Bet's operational unit, which combines in every operation technological capabilities, several types of intelligence and a direct connection to the unit's headquarters.
Undercover activities in the field (Photo: Flash 90, Nati Shohat)
According to Palestinian publications, in the past year fighting forces entered under the guise of trucks to distribute food products or vegetables.
"In the Jenin refugee camp, they collected documents from street cameras, most of which we saw running on social media. They did investigations after several undercover operations, and decided to place barriers made of traps at the entrance to the camp and to prohibit the entry of trucks into the heart of the camp. Who wants to? Let them carry goods by hand. The pressure and fear of going undercover in the camps So big that there have already been cases in Nablus and Jenin where Palestinian security forces were identified by the locals as Israeli undercover agents and opened fire on them," explained a military official at the Central Command.
The same military official explained that "it is a game of cat and mouse. At the time when they started installing street cameras, everyone was afraid of what would happen and how they would deal with it. It is definitely more dangerous and complex to operate, but the IDF and the Shin Bet find a solution to every challenge. Today they are in a completely different situation. As it turned out And it was revealed to everyone that Gov Aryot activists are in the Kasbah."
In the third and final phase of the operation, convoys of visible fighters will enter in armored vehicles to isolate the area and prevent armed men and rioters from disrupting the operation of arresting or thwarting the terrorists.
The arrest in Akbat Jaber last Wednesday
The Dovdvan undercover unit worked this week to arrest the terrorists who murdered Ilan Ganels in the north of the Dead Sea in the last second.
The undercover operatives operated in the Aqat Jaber refugee camp near Jericho.
With the transition of the fighters to the visible and noisy stage, calls began in the Jericho mosques to help the armed forces in the building.
A quick action by the forces together with the Shin Bet led to the capture of three wanted in the murder of the young man.
The same refugee camp in Jericho, recently made headlines and appears as a developing terrorist area on the Shin Bet's radar after four attacks came out of it, including the shooting at a bus of Kfir Brigade fighters, an attack A combined stampede, the attempted attack on the restaurant at the Almog junction and the fatal attack at the Beit Arava junction, in which the young man Ganels was murdered.
In the video: joint activity of the IDF with the Shin Bet and MGB to arrest those involved in the attack in which Ilan Ganels was killed, Aqabat Jaber, March 1, 2023 (IDF spokesperson)
The Bekaa and Valleys Brigade, Col. Meir Biederman, told about the operation in Akbat Jaber.
"There was a pressure cooker. It was our effort to get the suspects out of the building and make an arrest. When the search (the building) was closed, two people tried to escape from it, they got on a motorcycle, we shot at them and they were caught. One of them was injured by the shooting and on the way to the hospital he was pronounced dead."
"After the start of the pressure cooker, the terrorist who carried out the attack came out with his hands raised and turned himself in to the forces," he continued to explain.
"Then they pointed to the gun with which the shooting was carried out in the attack."
At the end of the activity, the terrorists were transferred to the Shin Bet investigation to understand how the squad slipped under the radar of the security system, who activated them and whether there are other dormant firing squads in their area.
Ilan Ganels, the young man who was murdered on Monday at the Beit Arava intersection in the northern Dead Sea (photo: documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
"An excellent closure of the area and proper preparation of the Cherry attackers led to the foiling of the escape," explained an officer in the central command.
He added that "You have to understand that Jericho is a sleepy area. Palms, dates, camels and tourism. Suddenly the Aqbat Jaber refugee camp woke up for many reasons and this should be very worrying."
The Jericho area has been defined as a security stable area for years, it is not for nothing that the Palestinian Authority trains Palestinian police officers and other security mechanisms in it.
Therefore, security officials claim that the recent events point to a dangerous and worrying trend of governance problems and the PA's lack of motivation to deal with terrorism in its territories.
"The Palestinian Authority sees Hamas and the Islamic Jihad as clear enemies that destabilize regimes, but are in no hurry to enter the refugee camps for many reasons. The most obvious and prominent is the fear of a direct fire confrontation with the people of the camp. The Palestinian Authority is struggling for legitimacy and a confrontation with the armed men hurts it. That is why they prefer to deal with it through negotiations , agreements, or leave this work to the IDF."
The activity in Akbat Jaber for the arrest of the terrorist who murdered Ilan Ganels (photo: IDF spokesperson)
In fact, over 20 refugee camps in the territories of the Palestinian Authority have become an intelligence-operational challenge for the Israeli security system in general, and in particular for the Shin Bet, the undercover units and combat units in the IDF.
The refugee camps are centers of unemployment, poverty and, accordingly, enormous frustration and anger towards the Palestinian Authority but also towards Israel.
Into the created space enter terrorist operatives with a lot of money to finance attacks from Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, Iran, Hezbollah and other extremist elements.
Hamas issued a statement stating that the terrorist who was killed this week in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp is a Hamas operative.
In doing so, they approved the new activity of the terrorist organization in the area that until recently was under the PA's high security control.
The activity of the IDF, the Shin Bet and the Special Intelligence Service to arrest those involved in the attack in which Ganels was murdered (photo: IDF spokesperson)
A senior officer in the IDF explained this week that due to the explosive period, the defense effort against firing squads in the hot spots of Judea and Samaria, the Bekaa and the Emekim has expanded. It includes four combat battalions, six reserve battalions, MGB companies whose location has recently been questioned, elite units that manage A hunt for the perpetrator of the attack at the Einbus junction in Hawara, and all this in addition to the regular order of forces in this sector.
This is an amount of force that approaches the peak of the beginning of Operation "Breakwater", when the attacks began last year in Hadera, Beer Sheva, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, and Elad.
"The intelligence effort is focused on the pursuit of the terrorists and the potential of future firing squads," explained the same officer.
"Despite the very serious events in Hawara, which included arson, sabotage and nationalist crime, the Palestinian crowd does not go berserk or take to the streets. The majority of the public prefers to work and lead a normal life. PA and the security mechanisms are interested in some kind of security coordination even though they apparently announced a break."
He added that "the Tanzim as an armed force does not enter the security events and they are on the fence. That is why the effort of the security system is to separate the population from this violent atmosphere as much as possible. Our effort is aimed at stopping the terrorists' successes. The goal is to prevent inspiration and espionage."
The consequences of the economic situation in Judea and Samaria
After the serious events in Hawara, which were defined by the commander of the Central Command as a "pogrom", Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi came to the Shomron Regional Brigade to see up close how the hunt for the terrorist who killed the Hillel Weigal Yaniv brothers was being conducted, how the IDF's hold on the ground was manifested in order to to prevent a flare-up, and is it necessary to increase forces in order to prevent another nationalist crime that may bring the whole region into a spin.
One of the problems that was presented to the Chief of Staff in assessing the situation is the economic situation in Judea and Samaria. Israeli Arabs are very afraid because of the security incidents and the increasing violence and do not enter the territories, unless they have family in the area or are close to Palestinian security agencies. Therefore, the income of the Palestinians from the West of Israel has dropped dramatically, mainly in the area The food, tourism, textiles and furniture.
The consequences of the cash flows hurt not only the cities, but mainly the refugee camps where the economic situation makes life more difficult.
The hardships translate, according to security officials, into a deterioration in the security situation because terrorist elements are entering the space, with a lot of money, who are ready to finance attacks even without recruiting processes and officially joining a terrorist organization.
The operation is carried out using the simple method of "money for an attack" and "cash bonus for a deadly attack".
A difficult economic reality in the territories.
Jenin refugee camp (photo: screenshot, social networks)
The complex reality these days in Judea and Samaria is once again putting the security spotlight back on the Shin Bet's ability to operate in combination with the undercover units that operate every week in the refugee camps. Security coordination. Also, nationalistic crime is on the rise on the one hand, and on the other hand, the scope of terrorist attacks and popular terrorism is on the rise, proliferation of weapons and ammunition in the area, incitement is expanding in social networks, political statements around the Temple Mount that are fuel for instigators, and security and civil preparations for the month of Ramadan, which is defined every year anyway as a "tense security period".
"The trend is clear.
The plight in the refugee camps in particular, a resurgence in some of them, and the violent trend in general requires the IDF to have a high combat capability and precision in order to isolate the terrorism from non-involved civilians," explained this week a senior member of the Central Command.
On the other hand, the same senior official also warned that a situation of wider escalation would oblige the IDF to enter the refugee camps aggressively and loudly, "with a high price for the Palestinian side and a significant risk to the security forces". Therefore, he claimed that all the actions the IDF is currently carrying out are aimed at reducing the fire in the area.
"That's why they don't choose collective punishment for the Palestinians and choose measured measures. There is no crown on Nablus, but other actions that cannot be detailed."
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