Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that Israel was deliberately seeking to stoke unrest in the occupied West Bank but that Palestinians would not be provoked.
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"We want peace and freedom for our prisoners and no matter how hard they try to drag us into their schemes, we will not be dragged," he said.
Protests in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli prisons have been building and gained new momentum with the sudden death of Arafat Jaradat ,a former militant of Abbas's Fatah movement, in his cell on Saturday.
Palestinian officials accuse Israel of torturing him to death.
"We lost Arafat Jaradat who was arrested and came back in a coffin and this cannot pass lightly," Abbas said.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 'soffice relayed Israel's demand that the Palestinian Authority take all the necessary measures to calm the situation on the ground.