Israeli military arrests over 4,000 Palestinian 'infiltrators' every year

The Jerusalem Post cited Lt. Gen. Eisenkot as telling the Knesset this was but a fraction of up to 60,000 Palestinians who commute to Israel daily from what the United Nations deems Israel-occupied territories.

The IDF chief stressed that in order to stop "illegal infiltrations" of Israel it needed $69 million to finish the construction of the so-called security fence, which cuts deep into the West Bank, Sputnik reports. A 2004 resolution by the UN General Assembly said the barrier violated international law.

Earlier in the day, the IDF announced it had allegedly thwarted terror attacks against Israelis in Judea and Samaria by "multiple operatives" of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group who were recruited via social network.