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As part of the effort to combat incitement, especially as Ramadan began this week, the IDF’s Judea and Samaria Division, under the command of Brigadier General Kobi Heller, has carried out a series of operations to arrest inciters, with a focus on social media, alongside public relations efforts and discussions with senior Palestinian officials to prevent inflaming tensions.
According to Walla, the Judea and Samaria Division has arrested 17 key inciters in the past two weeks alone.
The IDF Central Command has been conducting a large-scale operation since October 7, 2023, against incitement figures throughout the West Bank, based on the assessment that words on social media, sermons in mosques, and speeches at ceremonies and in the streets are fueling the next attacks.
This is particularly important as the IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) have succeeded in reducing the number of attacks carried out by organized infrastructures or institutionalized cells, but are still facing attacks by lone terrorists who wake up in the morning and decide to kill.
Additionally, it has been revealed to Walla that since the beginning of the war, more than 420 inciters have been arrested. In other cases, the inciters received warnings from security forces.
The main concern within the security establishment is from wild incitement designed to mobilize crowds to carry out attacks and to encourage lone attackers to target civilians and soldiers.
Mosques, Temple Mount, marked as security vulnerability during Ramadan
Meanwhile, security officials are marking prayers in mosques and on the Temple Mount as a potential security vulnerability on the first Friday of Ramadan. Accordingly, security forces, including the IDF, Shin Bet, Border Police, and Israeli Police, will reinforce friction points and the seam line with large forces on Friday.
In addition, the Civil Administration, under the command of Brigadier General Hisham Ibrahim, began a technological civilian preparedness alongside hardline actions against incitement in the last month, aiming to promote awareness of movements and crossings in the West Bank and the seam line, and to provide accessible information.
These measures included technological upgrades allowing the renewal of magnetic cards via an app, eliminating the need for physical presence, and increasing forces at the Qalandiya and Rachel’s Tomb crossings, which opened for pedestrians on Friday, to enable the flow of worshipers, prevent unnecessary friction, and solve real-time issues on the ground.
The security establishment has noted that there is also a real concern in Palestinian streets that extremist terrorist activities will lead to an escalation that will ruin the holiday atmosphere. The big test will be the ability to separate the normative population from those trying to turn Ramadan into a month of violence.
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