The head of the Israeli General Security Agency, the Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, warned the political level in the last session of the Cabinet, and in other security meetings, of the seriousness of the prison overcrowding crisis with Palestinian prisoners, and the lack of space in those prisons, which may make the task difficult arresting more wanted persons in light of the wave of attacks and the state of security tension in the West Bank.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, Israel Hayom, senior officials in the security services have also warned of the continued overcrowding in prisons, especially since, starting from the first of next month, the release of Palestinian prisoners with reduced sentences of between one month and three years, who are released before their term ends with a short period to alleviate the overcrowding situation, believing that this will make the problem of overcrowding more difficult and actually harm the possibility of arresting more wanted persons.

The Minister of the so-called National Security, the extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, had worked to pass a bill in the Knesset recently preventing the release of these people with the aim of punishing them and keeping them until the last day of their sentences inside prisons.

Those who were arrested for throwing stones and other minor accusations against them were released within the so-called "administrative release mechanism", so that they would be released in the last days or weeks of their sentences. It is a mechanism mainly used to reduce overcrowding inside Israeli prisons. And to make room for more detainees.

And with the entry into force of the new law next Friday, security warnings continue to cancel the arrests of security and administrative wanted persons, because there is no longer room in prisons.

Senior officers from the Israeli Prison Service said: "The situation is serious... It is a national crisis, and a real disaster."

And the Hebrew newspaper Israel Hayom claimed that the Israeli army last week refrained from carrying out important arrests at the request of the Prison Service due to the overcrowding of the prisons with Palestinian prisoners. .

According to the newspaper, in recent months, the number of detainees has increased dramatically due to the state of security tension in the West Bank and the wave of attacks, noting that there has been a jump in the number of administrative detention orders issued during the past two years, as in 2021 there were 450 new administrative detentions, but in 2022 The number jumped to more than 900, and during the current year more than 500 Palestinians have been arrested so far.

The newspaper claims that the Israeli army may have to stop some of the arrests, while a military official commented, "It's more ridiculous, and it has already happened several times."

In response, Ben Gvir said, "I am not ready for there to be a easing of penalties for those who work against the State of Israel in my era... There will always be a place for security prisoners in prisons." according to his expression.