The Israeli army arrested a wanted member of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad in a rare raid into Jericho overnight.
Jericho the only large West Bank town notbeing occupied by Israel.
Around 30 Israeli soldiers in jeeps entered the oasis town in the Jordan Valley to seize Tawfiq az-Zubin (34), who escaped a 25-year jail term in an Israeli prison in 1997, the Palestinian security officials said.
A fellow member of Jihad was killed during that jailbreak, they said. Since then, Zubin had been working in a cement factory in Jericho and living in a refugee camp in the town.
Jericho is the last of the autonomous Palestinian towns in the West Bank not to be reoccupied by the Israeli army since it took over almost the entire territory in June to crack down on Palestinians.
AFP