RAMALLAH, Palestine

The Israeli army shot a Palestinian man dead in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday.

"A martyr shot by the occupation has arrived at Tulkarem Governmental Hospital," the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced in a statement, without providing further details.

Activists on social media said an Israeli force infiltrated Tulkarem camp in a Palestinian civilian vehicle and opened fire on the young man.

The incident brings the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on Oct. 7 last year to 764, along with about 6,300 wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

In a separate incident, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that a Palestinian worker was injured by Israeli gunfire south of the city of Qalqilya.

It added that the worker was injured by a bullet fired by soldiers near a separation barrier built on land in the town of Hableh south of Qalqilya.

Palestinian state television later reported that the Israeli army raided Qalqilya and fired tear gas canisters.

The television broadcast videos showing smoke rising between shops in the city.

Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank due to Israel’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip, which has killed more than 43,100 Palestinians, mostly women and children, since Oct. 7, 2023.

The escalation follows a landmark opinion in July by the International Court of Justice that declared Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian land “illegal” and demanded the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

*Writing by Alperen Aktas from Istanbul