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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/413396.html
IDF Thwarting Terror Attacks
(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - Brigadier General Eli Yaffe, outgoing head of the General Staff's Operations Branch, attributes the IDF's improved ability to thwart terror attacks over the past two years to a combination of IDF freedom to detain suspects in West Bank cities, the blow delivered to the terror infrastructure in the West Bank, and the fence that closes off the Gaza Strip and the other one being built on the West Bank. "The interrogations and arrest operations on the West Bank provide the intelligence that enables us to thwart terror attacks. Each week, between 100 and 150 terror suspects are arrested on the West Bank. At the same time, the...moment we receive information about a suicide bomber, our ability to identify his likely movements, and to isolate him, is much greater today than in the past." "The organizations' infrastructures cannot today operate freely - the militants today operate under the threat of being pursued and caught." In recent months, 10 would-be terror attacks have been thwarted for every one or two which succeeded.