One person was killed and four others were injured, one seriously, in an Israeli attack on a vehicle on Thursday evening in Jenin, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups in the northern occupied West Bank, local authorities said, as quoted by AFP.

Since the Gaza war began on October 7, the West Bank has seen an increase in deadly attacks, between attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians, attacks by Palestinians on Israelis and near-daily raids by the Israeli army.

“A (Israeli) car bomb in the Jenin camp killed one person and injured four others, one of them seriously,” the Palestinian Ministry of Health told AFP late on Thursday.

Several Israeli newspapers reported an Israeli airstrike, but this was not confirmed by the military.

The car was crashed on the street in a refugee camp that has become an urban area over the years. At the scene, the almost completely destroyed remains of the car were burning in the middle of the street, a few meters from the building, AFP notes.

Palestinian attack

Earlier in the morning, also in the West Bank, three Palestinians killed one person and wounded eight others, including a young pregnant woman, when they opened fire with automatic weapons on cars in a traffic jam near the large Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim, located on the side of the highway between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea.

Israeli forces announced on Wednesday that they had killed three suspected Palestinian fighters last night during a night raid in the Jenin area.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 people in the West Bank since the war began on October 7.

In late January, three young Palestinians – two from Islamic Jihad and one from Hamas – were killed by Israeli agents posing as doctors at Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin, an operation condemned by the World Health Organization (WHO).