AFP - Five Israeli settlers have been arrested in connection with an arson attack on a Palestinian mosque in the West Bank in December, army radio reported on Monday.

The five were arrested during a raid by Israeli police and the Shin Bet domestic security agency in Yitzhar, a bastion of hardline settlers in the northern West Bank.

Five other people wanted by police were also detained in Sunday night's raid.

Police had previously arrested a 17-year-old from another West Bank settlement in connection with the mosque attack, but he has since been released.

On December 11, assailants vandalised a West Bank mosque, torching Muslim holy books and spraying hate messages in Hebrew in an attack blamed on hardline Jews angered by plans to curb settlement building.

Hardline settlers have adopted what they call a "price tag" policy under which they attack Palestinians, their fields or villages, whenever the Israeli government takes measures to curb settlement projects.