The IDF, Shin Bet and police exposed Monday night a large Hamas network in Qalqilya and arrested 24 militants, including senior officials.
Its members served as the regional headquarters and worked to renew the organization's terrorist activities in the city and nearby villages, according to police.
Some of the 24 Hamas leaders and activists detained were previously in Israeli prisons, several of them more than once.
The night-time operation also netted over NIS 35,000.
The nighttime operation was carried out by the Shin Bet together with forces from the elite Duvdevan and Egoz units, Border Police "mista'arvim", the Duchifat Battalion, and the Reshef and Namer battalions of the Artillery Corps.
