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IDF Combat Intelligence Collection Battalion Documents Palestinian Rioters
(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - The IDF's Nitzan Combat Intelligence Collection Battalion has identified 650 of the main instigators of the Palestinian riots in the West Bank earlier this year during the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike and the Temple Mount crisis, which has led to the imprisonment of 200 of them since the beginning of 2017. "We reach the home of the rioter in a matter of days, arrest him and bring him in front of a judge. These are mostly rioters aged 18-30, because our focus is not on children and teens," said Lt. Col. Ayalon Peretz, commander of the Nitzan Battalion. "The stone-throwers who are not arrested might throw a firebomb in tomorrow's riot. The next day they might throw a firebomb on a vehicle on the roads, and in a week they might carry out a serious terror attack. This accurate tool has led to a substantial drop in the number of rioters." The Nitzan Battalion also uses drones to help create an intelligence picture detailing where the rioters come from, how many there are, and where they flee to. In this manner, even masked rioters can be tracked and incriminated.