Also on Saturday, Israel returned the bodies of four Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers on Thursday in the southern West Bank.
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In Tulkarem, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said, Israeli forces detained Ibrahim Sami al-Akhras and his brother Muhammad, as well as Ali Ayman Jazmawi.
The fourth, a Palestinian young woman, was killed hours later, after she allegedly sought to stab forces at a checkpoint in the West Bank village of Beit Einun, located five kilometers (3.1 miles) northeast of al-Khalil.
No Israeli soldier was injured.
The occupied Palestinian territories have been the scene of heightened tensions between Palestinians and Israelis since August past year, when the Tel Aviv regime imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), angering Palestinians.
Relations between Israelis and Palestinians remain tense amid a wave of attacks on Israelis by Palestinians and some Israeli Arabs which have killed 22 Israelis since the beginning of October.
Israel has employed a raft of security and punitive measures in a bid to stem attacks.
Meanwhile, Palestinian assailants have killed 23 Israelis, including soldiers and civilians.
Commentators say the surge in attacks has been fueled by the collapse of U.S.-sponsored peace talks in 2014, the growth of Jewish settlements on land Palestinians want for a future state and Islamist calls for the destruction of Israel. He has been arrested several times in the past, once for assaulting police officers.
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Tel Aviv-based author Dorit Rabinyan’s Gader Haya, titled Borderlife in English, topped the bestseller lists amid a cultural outcry over the education ministry’s decision to shelve it from the country’s classrooms.
