The Health Ministry says a young man was killed and two people were injured in an assault in the city of Aqqaba.

Israeli soldiers killed at least one person during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Aqqaba, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.

The body of the Palestinian, identified as Adham Zayed Ezzat Masri, 25, was still being held by Israeli forces, the ministry said Saturday after the dawn assault.

Aqqaba is located in the north of Tubas Governorate, which is located in the northwestern Palestinian territory.

The man died after his family home in Aqqaba was surrounded by soldiers, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, which also reported that a 50-year-old Palestinian was wounded in the chest after being hit by live bullets and was taken to hospital in critical condition.

Another 49-year-old person suffered bruises, the agency said.

The director of the Palestinian Prisoners Society in Tubas, Kamal Bani Odeh, said Israeli forces arrested two other men during the raid, according to Wafa.

The Israeli army sent several vehicles, accompanied by a bulldozer, from checkpoints in eastern Aqqaba to surround several houses and carry out arrests, sources told Al Jazeera.

They said armed clashes broke out inside the city.

The Israeli military said it was investigating the reports.

Arrests amid surge in violence

Israeli forces arrested at least 18 Palestinians across the occupied West Bank from Friday night to Saturday morning, according to the Commission on Detainees and Former Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners Society.

Violence has increased in the area since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, with almost daily raids by Israeli forces involving thousands of arrests.

There have also been regular shootouts between security forces and Palestinian fighters during Israeli army raids.

Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed more than 760 Palestinians in the West Bank during that period, according to the Ramallah-based Health Ministry.

In August, the Israeli army launched a major offensive in areas of the northern West Bank – the largest in two decades – isolating areas such as Jenin, Tulkarem and Tubas.