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According to a report in Haaretz, The State Prosecutor’s Office intends to indict right-wing activists with espionage over suspicions they tracked Israel Defence Forces activities in the West Bank.

Last week, the activists were apprehended following a joint operation by Israel Police and Shin Bet forces over suspicions that they had gathered intelligence on IDF movements in the West Bank. According to the police, the eight activists operated an “outpost intelligence HQ,” which involved a methodical tracking of IDF movements, meant to disrupt the demolition of illegal outposts.

The suspects allegedly alerted hundreds of right-wing activists on the night of 12 December, and to the events that followed, which included an assault on a West Bank army base as well as on a senior IDF officer.

An Israel Police representative at the hearing yesterday for five of those arrested in a Jerusalem magistrate’s court called the activists’ operation a “organised mechanism which operated on the ground. It’s clear to us that there was a method.”

At the hearing, the police representative also said that the they were consulting with State Prosecutor’s Office officials and that an indictment will be submitted next week, pending unexpected developments.