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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Nils Adler

Why Shin Bet may be used to police Palestinian areas in Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, instructed security agencies to prepare for Shin Bet to take on crime-fighting responsibilities at a meeting on June 11, 2023 [Menahem Kahana/Reuters]

Israel is considering deploying its internal security service to combat crime in Palestinian neighbourhoods in Israel.

Israel’s Shin Bet, or Shabak as it is known in both Hebrew and Arabic, is the internal intelligence service and one of the three branches of the Israeli General Security Service.

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