In the occupied West Bank, three Palestinian militants were killed in a rare Israeli drone strike amid rising violence in the region.
After a shooting attack near Jalama on Wednesday night, the Israeli military claimed it had hunted down "a terrorist cell inside a suspicious vehicle.".
It was noted that it was the first such strike in the West Bank since 2006.
Three bodies were discovered in a burned-out car, according to Palestinian first responders, but soldiers prevented their removal.
They were identified by the Palestinian news agency Wafa as Mohammed Bashar Uweis, 28, Suhayb Adnan al-Ghoul, 27, and Ashraf Murad Saadi, 17, and they all claimed to be from the Jenin region.
While Uweis was a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, the armed wing of the Fatah movement, the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed that Ghoul and Saadi were its fighters.
Israeli authorities would "bear responsibility for their stupid decision to strike these operatives with drones and," PIJ warned. hold onto their bodies.
Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, tweeted: "We'll take an attacking and proactive approach against terror, we'll use all tools at our disposal and exact the heaviest price from every terrorist. ".
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that its soldiers had tracked down a vehicle containing the shooters who had opened fire at a checkpoint close to Jalama, a town located about 3 point 5 kilometers (2 miles) north of Jenin.
In Judea and Samaria, the biblical name Israel uses for the West Bank, it continued, "the terrorist cell [had] carried out a number of shooting attacks toward communities in recent months.".
"An IDF UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] fired toward the terrorist cell and thwarted them after the terrorist cell was identified. ".
Prior to the attack, witnesses claimed to have heard gunfire.
According to resident Nasser Torokman, "I was sitting with my children when we decided to go inside because we thought there were clashes or something like that after the sound of the bullets.".
Later, we heard the sound of an explosive explosion. After the first rocket landed, I noticed that there was fire and a burning car nearby. ".
Images shared on social media showed what appeared to be several emergency vehicles close to the burning wreck of the car that was the target of the strike.
The drone attack occurred a few hours after a Palestinian man was killed by gunfire while being chased by hundreds of Israeli settlers who set cars and homes on fire in the nearby town of Turmusaya, about 50 kilometers to the south.
The man was killed by Israeli forces "while confronting the settlers," according to the Palestinian health ministry. Israel's paramilitary border police claimed that when residents "rioted," troops fired at a man who shot at firefighters as they were being protected by its troops.
The attack on Turmusaya came after a 17-year-old boy who was one of the four Israelis killed by two Hamas-affiliated Palestinian gunmen at a gas station and restaurant on Tuesday was buried in a nearby settlement.
In response, Hamas claimed that the shooting was a retaliation for an Israeli military raid that took place in Jenin on Monday and resulted in the deaths of seven Palestinians.
The IDF used an Apache attack helicopter for the first time in the West Bank in quite some time. Seven soldiers were injured when the helicopter launched missiles at militants who had used explosives to target troop transporters.
