The Israel Police, with the IDF and the Green Patrol, conducted an ongoing campaign against cannabis greenhouses in military training zones and across the Negev.[1] Inspectors uprooted cannabis plants, piled them on wooden pallets, doused them in benzine and burned them.[1] Police said drugs were destroyed on the spot under a model intended to improve the efficiency of the campaign.[1]

Police said more than 1,175 cannabis greenhouses had been destroyed since the start of 2021, most of them in IDF training areas.[1] Police said they had seized more than 1,961 kilograms of marijuana ready for distribution and more than 786,979 marijuana plants.[1] The street value of the confiscated drugs was believed to be more than 1 billion shekels.[1]

Growers irrigated the crops through networks of water pipes taken illegally from the main water source.[1] Greenhouses of all sizes growing marijuana were dotted across the desert from near the Ze’elim army base to the outskirts of Be’er Sheva and near the Ramon base.[1] Despite the quantities destroyed, the number of prosecutions was close to zero.[1] The Green Patrol director said it was almost impossible to gather evidence to prosecute an individual for a specific patch.[1]