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BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Fifteen Palestinians are in PA custody due to their alleged support for the Islamic State group and for attempting to contact the militant group, an Israeli news site reported Tuesday.

The Hebrew-language news site Walla quoted Palestinian security sources as saying PA security services arrested dozens of young men in the West Bank in the past two months on suspicion that they support IS.

Many have been released after questioning while 15 are still in custody, Walla said.

Among the detainees is a young woman who has a passport from a Western country. She was convicted on the charge and was freed after serving a period of imprisonment, Walla reported.

The report added that PA police discovered that a divorced East Jerusalem mother of two had joined IS and traveled to Syria where she is now fighting in al-Raqqa city. The woman left her two children in a Palestinian village near Jerusalem.

The Palestinian sources added, according to Walla, that Palestinian and Israeli security services work in full coordination in an effort to prevent the creation of IS cells in the West Bank and Israel.

They added that a top leader of the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, Shadi al-Munei, managed to flee the Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip.

The man, listed as top fugitive in Egypt, has relations with the Hamas military wing, Walla said.