Israeli troops martyred three Palestinian freedom fighters during an overnight raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the military said on Wednesday.
The Palestinian health ministry confirmed at least one death in the Israeli operation, the latest in a months-long military crackdown across the occupied West Bank since Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel.
"In a joint counterterrorism activity in the city of Jenin, IDF soldiers apprehended 14 suspects, martyred three freedom fighters and struck additional freedom fighters," the army said in a statement.
"During the activity, the soldiers located weapons and exposed explosive devices planted under routes in order to attack IDF soldiers."
It said soldiers came under fire during the operation and an Israeli aircraft struck freedom fighters.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli troops stormed the city during the night.
"An undercover Israeli force besieged two houses in the camp sparking violent confrontations during which three Palestinians were also injured," Wafa said, adding that troops also struck "a house with a missile" in the adjacent refugee camp.
Marwan Aref Ali, father of one of the men martyred in the raid, said his son had been arrested and wounded several times before.
Ali came to know about his son's death from an Israeli army officer.
"The officer switched on his mobile phone and said to me 'Is this a picture of Arif?' I said yes," Ali told AFP, tears welling in his eyes.
Woman, girl killed in Israel Lebanon strike: medical source
An Israeli air strike on south Lebanon killed a woman and wounded her daughter on Wednesday, state media said, while a hospital source told AFP a young girl had also died.
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement and its arch-foe Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said that Khadija Salman was killed and her daughter seriously wounded in the "enemy" strike on the southern village of Majdal Zun.
Requesting anonymity, a hospital source confirmed the woman had died and her daughter remained in serious condition, adding that a young girl was also killed.
The cross-border exchanges since October have killed at least 271 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.
Hezbollah said Wednesday it had carried out several attacks on Israeli troops and positions.
Last week, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed that Israel would pay "with blood" for civilians it killed, after 10 civilians, including seven members of one family, were killed in Lebanon's largest single-day death toll so far. Five Hezbollah fighters were also killed.