Security forces on Saturday morning arrested three wanted members of a terror cell who had been plotting an imminent attack, according to a joint statement released Saturday afternoon by Israel Police, the Shin Bet and the IDF.

The forces received the initial intelligence about the suspects’ whereabouts from the Shin Bet, the statement said, which led to a major joint operation carried out on Saturday morning.

According to the statement, officers in the police’s Yamam counter-terror unit and Shin Bet agents arrested two suspects within Israeli territory in Barta’a, an Arab village bisected by the Green Line.

Later that day, IDF soldiers disguised as civilians raided the home of another member of the cell in the northern West Bank, arresting him, the statement said.

The three detained suspects are to be questioned by Shin Bet officials, according to the statement.

Last week, the Shin Bet said they arrested over 60 Hamas operatives over the past few months as part of one of the largest crackdowns on a West Bank terror network in recent years.

A senior Shin Bet official called the operation the “largest and most complex investigation by the Shin Bet in the Judea and Samaria area in the past decade,” the Biblical term for the West Bank.

Indictments were filed against those suspects, accusing them of severe crimes, including heading a terror organization, and the equivalent of attempted murder and attempted conspiracy to commit murder.

Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas led a devastating invasion of southern Israel from the Gaza Strip that triggered the ongoing war in the enclave, troops have arrested some 6,000 Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were gunmen killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or terrorists carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 51 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.

Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.