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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) -- Israeli police on Wednesday detained at least 60 Palestinian workers inside Israel without work permits, Hebrew media reported.

According to Hebrew media, Israeli forces detained 25 Palestinians from northern Israel, 15 from the Tel Aviv area and 20 from the Negev.

The detention campaign follows a deadly attack in the Israeli coastal city of Jaffa on Tuesday, where a Palestinian who had reportedly been living and working in Israel illegally stabbed and killed an American tourist and injured at least nine others.

The Palestinian, identified as Bashar Masalha, 22, was shot dead at the scene.

In addition to cracking down on workers inside Israel illegally, Israeli forces on Wednesday announced that work permits would be revoked from Palestinians residing in Masalha’s hometown of Hajja in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin.

The move was the second time this year that Israeli authorities revoked work permits from entire areas following attacks carried out by individuals.

Early last month, Israeli authorities announced that work permits were being revoked from residents of Qabatiya, a village in the northern occupied West Bank, after a deadly attack carried out by three teens from the village.

Palestinians who seek to work in Israel need a special work permit usually granted by the Israeli Civil Administration in coordination with the Israeli Ministry of Labor, but such permits are difficult to obtain.

Immigration of a foreign workforce into Israel increased primarily during both the First and Second Intifadas, as Israeli employers sought to replace Palestinian workers who were unable to come to work to due severe Israeli restrictions on movement, according to the International Federation for Human Rights.

Despite this, the Bank of Israel reported in March that the number of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank working in Israel -- legally and illegally -- doubled in the past four years.

Tens of thousands of Palestinian workers are forced to seek a living by working in Israel as the growth of an independent Palestinian economy has been stifled in the West Bank under the ongoing Israeli military occupation, according to Israeli human rights organization