No Israeli casualties are reported after three rockets launched, one was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, another fell in an open field, and the third fell short of crossing over Israeli territory.
Troops were looking to arrest Khaled Abu Zina, but as he was not home at the time, apprehended his two sons – Awas and Hani – instead.
"It cannot be that lawbreakers wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism," national security minister says on his new directive. It follows the release of a long-serving Palestinian prisoner, convicted of kidnapping and killing an Israeli soldier in 1983, who waved a Palestinian flag while receiving a hero's welcome.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of his cabinet on Sunday the measures against the Palestinians were aimed at what he called “an extreme anti-Israel” step that involved having the UN's top judicial body issue an advisory opinion on Israel's legal status in Judea and Samaria.
Sanctions include transferring $39 million of PA funds to Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism instead.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Hamas terror group had threatened to “cleanse” the Al Aqsa Mosque of “the filth of the occupation,” following a visit to the Temple Mount a few hours earlier by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
A confidential paper composed by the European Union's mission in east Jerusalem contends that the "connecting people, connecting land" principle should be applied to "all interventions in Area C with the overall objective to integrate Area C with Area A and B."
The rioters built a flagpole upon the ruins of Sebastia and hoisted a PLO flag on it. The head of the Shomron Regional Council: “The government has forsaken the country’s historic sites, the perpetrators must be prosecuted.”
Local media identifies them as Mohammed Ayman Saadi, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Na'im Zubeidi from the Fatah-linked Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Palestinian rioters hurl bombs and fire shots at soldiers in the flashpoint city, the military says in a statement.