Israeli officer: ‘Most’ violence in Arab communities led by Shin Bet informants

A senior Israeli police officer has said those leading violence in the Arab community in the occupied territories “are mostly Shin Bet informants”. 

The comment was made in a recent high-level meeting at the Israeli police headquarters, Israel’s Channel 13 news said Thursday. 

During the meeting, the police representative said Israel's internal spy agency Shin Bet was the reason behind the police force’s inability to deal with violence in the Arab community.

“The criminals who are currently leading the serious crime in Arab society are mostly Shin Bet informants and in this situation, the police are bound because those informants, who enjoy immunity, cannot be touched,” the unnamed senior officer was reported to have said.

The report said the issue of crime in the Arab sector of the occupied territories and the fact that the regime’s police do not have the appropriate tools to deal with it was raised in the Wednesday meeting.

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The Shin Bet immediately responded to the remarks, claiming that the accusation was “false, has no basis and no connection with factual data” of recent indictments.

“Shin Bet activity in recent months has led to the arrest of hundreds of suspects who have been prosecuted, dozens of them for serious terrorist offenses with nationalist motivation,” Channel 12 quoted the response from the regime’s internal spy agency.

It came days after five Arabs were killed in deadly shootings in the occupied territories in separate incidents, including an incident involving Yousef Jerushi, his wife Nawal and their daughter Rayan who were shot to death near the town of Eilabun in the Galilee.

On Sunday, Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett described the violence in the Arab community as a blight that has been neglected for many years.

In early May, Palestinian protests broke out in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinians faced forced displacements from their homes by Israel’s occupation forces, as the regime pushed ahead with plans to build new illegal settlements there.

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The protests soon spread to the al-Aqsa Mosque, the city of Lod, Arab communities of the occupied territories and the occupied West Bank, leading to the callup of additional forces to some areas, as the Israeli police failed to control the situation within mixed cities for days, most notably in Lod.

The protests, which were being suppressed by the Israeli regime’s forces, also prompted an 11-day Israeli aggression against the Gaza, which killed over 260 people in the besieged enclave.

Since the beginning of the year, 48 Arabs have been killed in the occupied territories in violent crimes. Over 110 Arabs were also killed and hundreds were wounded in 2020.

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