(KUNA) -- Israeli security was put on maximum alert Monday following the Palestinian operation that was carried out on Sunday on an Israeli army site in east Gaza. The Israeli media reported that Israeli police fortified its presence across Israel and placed barricades in various locations.
The Israeli Haaretz daily indicated that staff of Israeli prisons was also put on alert to confront any reactions among the Palestinian prisoners in light of the recent developments in Gaza and the kidnap of the Israeli soldier yesterday. Israel has decided to ban visits of families of Palestinian prisoners as a retaliation over the Karem Shalom operation, during which two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third was kidnapped.
Meanwhile, the newspaper reported that the Israeli Internal Security Service (Shin Bet) has provided the Israeli army with information on a plot by Palestinian fighters to kidnap Israeli soldiers using a tunnel in south Gaza. |