AFP, Jerusalem

The Israeli army said Monday it was introducing a new technological system to enforce movement restrictions in the occupied West Bank for both Israelis and Palestinians, in a move Israeli media said aims to rein in surging settler violence.

The decision allows security forces “to install a technological monitoring device on individuals subject to an administrative order restricting their movement within the (West Bank),” the army said. The system would allow for monitoring of “violations of these restriction orders accordingly,” it added.

The measure was adopted after a request by head of the domestic Shin Bet security agency.