JERUSALEM - Two Palestinians suspected of killing three Israelis in a knife attack have been arrested after a three-day manhunt, Israeli security forces said Sunday.

According to a joint statement by the Israeli military, police and Shin Bet internal security agency, the two were captured in a forest near Elad, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish city, where they killed three men and injured four others on Israel's Independence Day on Thursday.

The two are 19-year-old and 20-year-old residents of the Jenin area in the northern occupied West Bank, Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported.

The incident came amid heightened tensions over a string of clashes between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli police in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in recent weeks.