Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has cut short a visit to Europe in response to Israel's raid on a West Bank prison that provoked violent protests.
A blindfolded man, believed to be Palestinian leader Ahmed Saadat is arrested by Israeli soldiers
The Israeli army killed two people and seized at least six people, including the man they claim was responsible for the assassination of an Israeli minister.
The most senior figure is Ahmed Sa'adat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was being held along with four of his accomplices accused of the assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi, in a Jerusalem hotel in 2001.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Abbas was returning to the West Bank early "to follow up on the developments" following yesterday's day-long siege.
The raid provoked angry protests and a wave of attacks against Western interests. A number of westerners were kidnapped but later released.
Three remaining foreign hostages kidnapped during a wave of violence in the Gaza Strip were freed today.
The two French nationals and a South Korean were among nine foreigners snatched in Gaza and the West Bank. The others were freed shortly after their capture.
Palestinians furious at the decision by the US and Britain to remove their monitors at the prison attacked British interests in Gaza and in the West Bank.
Qatar, meanwhile, has urged the UN Security Council to condemn Israel's actions that triggered a surge in Middle East violence.
A draft statement by Qatari Ambassador Abdulaziz Al-Nasser is calling on Israel to return all Palestinian prisoners to Palestinian custody and withdraw all its forces from Jericho.
Council diplomats said the 15-nation council would discuss the draft behind closed doors today after Al-Nasser revised it overnight in response to council members' initial comments, diplomats said.
However, the text will almost certainly face a veto from the United States, Israel's closest ally, if brought to a vote in its current form, the diplomats said.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan also urged "an immediate end to the violence, respect for civilian lives, and urgent steps to restore calm," his chief spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.