TEL AVIV, Nov 10: Two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up in northern Israel on Sunday after Israeli border guards spotted them and moved in to arrest them.

The two suicide bombers were driving in a vehicle when they were spotted by an Israeli patrol on a field track close to Kibbutz Metzer, on the border between Israel and the West Bank. The two men were told to stop but instead detonated their devices, killing themselves, he said.

No one else was hurt in the incident, which occurred 10 kilometres north of the Palestinian town of Tulkarem, reoccupied like almost all of the rest of the West Bank by the Israeli army since June.

JENIN PULLOUT: Israeli forces pulled back to the outskirts of Jenin on Sunday, two weeks after troops backed by heavy armour swept into the West Bank city in search of militants behind suicide attacks in Israel, witnesses said.—AFP/Reuters