The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) is the Jewish state's primary internal security service, focusing primarily on internal security, exposing terrorist rings, and intelligence efforts in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Also known as the Shabak, it makes up one of the three arms of Israel's intelligence community, alongside the Mossad (foreign intelligence) and Aman (military intelligence).
Like the Mossad, despite being a security agency, the Shin Bet does not operate under the Defense Ministry and instead answers to the prime minister.
The current head of the Shin Bet is Ronen Bar, appointed in 2021 by then-prime minister Naftali Bennett.
After assessments at Ben-Gurion airport, a decision was made that there were no security reasons to prevent the terrorist from entry into Israel.
Alongside the senior General Staff officers, the list of officers who may retire from the IDF is reportedly quite long.
Nine years later, Israel fulfilled its promise and brought Oron Shaul back home.
Shaul was killed in 2014, and his body was taken by Hamas to the Gaza Strip.
Nevertheless, Bar admitted that releasing terrorists, some of whom he personally arrested, was "very difficult."
Bar also said that the release of terrorists is expected to increase the motivation to carry out attacks in the West Bank.
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The air force struck some 50 Hamas terror targets throughout Gaza, including terror squads, weapons storage facilities, and military structures.
The uptick in raids was triggered by a terror attack that killed three Israelis and injured seven others near the Palestinian village of al-Funduq on January 6.
Two terrorists were arrested in the joint operation; both were from the northern West Bank town of Kabatiya, near Jenin.