JENIN (West Bank), Nov 24: The Israeli army on Sunday surrounded a mosque at Tubas, in the northern West Bank, where a Palestinian militant was believed to be holed up, witnesses said.

The troops used loudspeakers to call on Mohammed al-Qilani, of the radical Islamic Jihad movement, to give himself up, they added.

Tubas was under its third day of a curfew imposed when the army launched a new crackdown in the West Bank following a deadly suicide attack on a bus in occupied Al Quds on Thursday.

In other incidents some 15 tanks and other armoured vehicles entered Qalqiliya, also in the northern West Bank, and troops fired automatic weapons to enforce a curfew.—AFP