Palestinian Authority forces are clashing with armed groups in the occupied West Bank in a rare crackdown aimed at restoring order in a militant stronghold.

Three people were killed in an Israeli military operation in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The Health Ministry in Ramallah confirmed the deaths of two women, aged 30 and 53, and an 18-year-old man in an Israeli attack.

Israeli forces storm the city of Nablus in the West Bank.

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Nine Palestinians, including a 17-year-old, were killed during Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank, with drone strikes targeting Tulkarem and Tubas. Palestinian health officials and local sources said the raids began early Tuesday,

The Ramallah-based ministry said seven were killed in the Tulkarem refugee camp and one in the nearby Nur Shams camp after the military launched a sweeping raid early on Tuesday.

Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians in raids on Tuesday on a refugee camp near the city of Tulkarm in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.