India, March 7 -- Israeli authorities on Friday said 10 Indian construction workers were rescued from a West Bank village where they were held for over a month, media reports said.

Palestinians had lured the workers to the West Bank village of al-Zaayem with promises of work and then taken their passports and tried to use them to cross into Israel, the Population and Immigration Authority told The Times of Israel.

They were rescued during an overnight operation led by the authority together with the IDF and the Justice Ministry.

The IDF had identified the illicit use of the passports and later returned them to their owners, The Times of Israel reported.

Some 16,000 laborers have come to Israel from India in the last year as part of an...