Violence has escalated in the occupied territory over the last year and a half, as Israel conducts raids targeting armed fighters with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in an air strike and a shooting across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. An Israeli drone bombed the town of Tammun, south of the city of Tubas, after midnight, killing two Palestinians, including a teenager, according to Palestinian health officials.

A Palestinian woman was shot and killed in her home in the volatile northern West Bank town of Jenin, where the Palestinian Authority is carrying out a rare campaign against militants