Israeli soldiers carried out a manhunt Friday in the occupied West Bank, a day after the army blamed Palestinians for shooting dead an Israeli settler and wounding two others.
The army said it has deployed three extra battalions as well as special forces.
"We are in a physical, technological, intelligence hunt," Israeli army spokesman Brigadier General Ran Kochav told 103FM radio.
"We arrested last night a number of suspects... sooner or later we will find the perpetrators."
An Israeli student was killed and two were wounded Thursday when their car came under gunfire near a settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, medics said.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said medics unsuccessfully worked to revive a passenger in the car’s back seat who was unconscious after getting shot, AFP reported.
“Paramedics had to pronounce his death on the way to the hospital,” it said in a statement, adding that two other men who were riding in the car suffered “mild” injuries from glass shards and were taken to hospital.
Medics said the shooting occurred near the Shavei Shomron settlement, in the northern occupied West Bank near the city of Nablus.
Thursday's shooting followed high tensions after Palestinian attacks on Israelis, and the killing of Palestinians by Israeli troops during clashes.
Last week Israeli police arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian girl on suspicion of stabbing her neighbor, an Israeli Jewish resident of a settlement in a contested neighborhood of east Jerusalem.
