Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian youth in the town of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv city, in the occupied territories.

A 22-year-old Palestinian was shot dead after allegedly stabbing and injuring an old Israeli, the regime's police said on Monday.

In a separate incident, Israeli forces arrested another Palestinian youth for allegedly stabbing three Israelis south of Tel Aviv.

A 19-year-old Palestinian, from al-Khalil (Hebron) in the occupied West Bank, stabbed two people on the pavement and a third in a clothes store, Israeli police claimed in a statement on Monday.

The alleged assailant reportedly disembarked a bus about ten kilometers (six miles) south of Tel Aviv in the central Rishon LeZion bus station, where he was claimed to have stabbed a person at the bus stop, before running across the street and allegedly knifed another person.

He then entered a clothing store where he allegedly stabbed a woman.

The occupied Palestinian territories have recently been the scene of heightened tensions between Palestinians and Israelis.

At least 72 Palestinians were also killed in Palestinian territories by Israeli soldiers in October. Ten Israelis have also been killed during the time.

The Rishon LeZion stabbing is the first such incident outside of the West Bank and al-Quds (Jerusalem) since October 22, when two Palestinians reportedly stabbed an Israeli in the town of Beit Shemesh west of al-Quds.

Tensions were triggered by the Israel’s imposition, in August, of restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says a total of 2,617 Palestinians sustained gunshot wounds in clashes in the occupied West Bank last month.