SALFIT (Ma'an) -- Israeli settler security guards on Tuesday detained a Palestinian woman carrying a knife near Immanuel settlement in the northern West Bank, Israeli police said.

Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Ma'an the woman was detained near the outer fence of the settlement, which lies between Qalqiliya and Nablus.

She was transferred to police custody and admitted in questioning to planning to carry out a stabbing attack, Rosenfeld said.