Israeli authorities arrested senior officials from the Health Work Committees. The Israel Security Agency, known as the Shin Bet, reported foiling alleged terror plots targeting Israeli society and foreign-run influence campaigns targeting the same population.

David Zini is the chief of the Shin Bet. Channel 12 reported that the agency thwarted multiple alleged plots targeting Israel's political and security leadership, though the outlet did not provide additional details about those alleged plots. Channel 12 also reported that the Shin Bet dismantled several foreign-run social media operations intended to influence Israeli public opinion. The outlet did not identify the foreign actor allegedly behind the online influence campaigns, and it did not provide additional details about the arrests of the Health Work Committees officials.

A Telegram channel known as Bnei Eretz was identified among the networks dismantled by the Shin Bet. Channel 12 described the Bnei Eretz Telegram channel as presenting itself as an Israeli platform while being operated by a hostile foreign actor. Israeli security officials expect foreign influence campaigns to become more frequent ahead of the country's upcoming legislative elections.

Israel designated the Health Work Committees as a terrorist organization in 2020. The designation was made over the group's alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP. Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg, the founder and president of NGO Monitor, issued a warning following the detention of the Health Work Committees officials. Steinberg stated that the arrests demonstrate the group's longstanding links to the PFLP.

Steinberg noted that the Health Work Committees has continued operating in the West Bank despite its 2020 designation as a terrorist organization. He said several senior officials and employees of the group, including the former general director, the former fundraiser, and at least three people who held financial positions, have been convicted of terror-related offenses.

"This is yet another example of how terror groups like the PFLP repeatedly exploit the NGO facade," Steinberg said. He criticized continued European support for the Health Work Committees and singled out Belgium as a donor to the group despite Israel's designation of it. "We call on donor states to immediately halt any remaining funding to HWC based on its leaders' ongoing ties with the PFLP," Steinberg said.

The arrests of senior Health Work Committees officials and the Shin Bet's reports of foiled terror plots and foreign influence campaigns represent a convergence of security actions taken by Israeli authorities on a single day. The 2020 designation of the Health Work Committees as a terrorist organization over alleged ties to the PFLP provides the legal and historical framework for the current arrests, while Steinberg's statement that senior officials and employees with specific titles have been convicted of terror-related offenses adds a recorded pattern of prior legal action against the group.

The dismantling of foreign-run social media operations, including the Bnei Eretz Telegram channel described as masquerading as an Israeli platform, introduces an information warfare dimension to the security picture. Israeli security officials' expectation that foreign influence campaigns will become more frequent ahead of upcoming legislative elections situates these actions within an anticipated escalation. The absence of identified foreign actors behind the influence campaigns and additional details about the alleged plots or the specific arrests leaves gaps in the public record of these events.