The Israeli Prison Service claimed that, in cooperation with the police, it arrested a Palestinian from Bethlehem who was preparing to smuggle dozens of mobile phones into prisons.

According to a joint statement, the detainee is the brother of a Palestinian prisoner who is detained in a prison in southern occupied Palestine, and that he was transferred to complete investigations with him.

The statement indicated that this special operation was carried out with the aim of thwarting ways to smuggle mobile phones to prisons, and after a secret intelligence operation after several attempts to smuggle these phones.