Among the measures, the government said it was revoking entry permits for more than 80,000 Palestinians to visit relatives in Israel during Ramadan.
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The military says the closure will end Sunday night after the Shavuot holiday.
The Israeli military early Saturday demolished the family home of a Palestinian who it says stabbed a Jewish mother to death in front of her children, in one of the most grisly killings in an eight-month wave of violence.
Israeli police detained at least 27 undocumented Palestinians in Tel Aviv over the weekend amid an ongoing crackdown on Palestinian movement in the wake of a deadly gun attack in Tel Aviv last week. Israeli casualties – soldiers, civilians and settlers – in the West Bank and Israel were also the highest in that same period, according to the report.
Meanwhile on Friday, Israeli police detained 12 undocumented Palestinian workers on two construction sites in Petah Tikva in central Israel. It dubbed the attack the “Ramadan operation” as it came two days after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan began on Monday.
Israeli security forces lay down a spiked road-blocker on the border between the Hebron and the Yattamunicipalities to prevent vehicles from entering or exiting the southern West Bank Palestinian village of Yatta on June 10, 2016.
The military said it arrested several people in connection to that attack in the West Bank overnight. They also suspended 204 work permits previously granted to the extended families of the alleged attackers.
France’s foreign minister also warned Friday that the Israeli closure following the “abominable” attack could escalate violence instead of focus attention on the need to pursue peace.
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The office of the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, on Friday condemned the Tel Aviv shooting.
