Israel arrested 12 suspected ISIS terrorists, who claimed responsibility for the recent attacks that resulted in six deaths

The Israeli Police, in a joint operation with the Internal Security Service (Shin Bet), arrested 12 people with alleged ties to the Islamic State this morning, a group that claimed two recent attacks in the country that killed six people.

“Troops raided the homes of 12 suspected of belonging to the Islamic State terrorist organization. During a search of several suspects, items were seized that could indicate support for the terrorist organization,” said a police spokesman.

The operation was carried out in Arab towns in the Wadi Ara area, near the city of Hadera, where the last of the attacks took place last Sunday. In that incident, two attackers opened fire on Israeli Border Police officers, killing two of them and injuring three others, before being killed by plainclothes officers who were in the area.

This series of arrests follows Prime Minister Naftali Benet's announcement on Monday of strong security measures to prevent further attacks.

The most prominent of these measures is the implementation of an arrest regime known as administrative detention, generally used against Palestinians in the West Bank, which allows suspects to be locked up without charges or trials for renewable periods, ranging from three to six months.

“Prime Minister Benet emphasized that this was a new situation that requires the security establishment to prepare and adapt to the circumstances in which extremist segments of the Arab sector, guided by an extreme Islamist ideology, engage in terrorism and harm human lives,” a spokesman for the president said on Monday. after the announcement of the new measures.

Both Sunday's attack, and a series of stabbings on Monday last week that killed four Israeli civilians, were perpetrated by Arab citizens of Israel, something unusual and posing a greater challenge to the security forces.

(With information from EFE)

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