Families kissed the faces of the dead and neighbours cried in the streets after one of the worst Israeli raids anyone in the Nur Shams refugee camp can remember, AFP reports.

On Sunday a funeral procession for 13 Palestinians killed in the army’s West Bank operation passed through roads piled with rubble from Israeli bulldozers and rocket fire.

Israeli forces carry out regular raids on towns and cities in the occupied West Bank, and violence has soared since the fighting in Gaza broke out last year.

The Israeli army said it had killed ten militants in a three-day “counterterrorism” raid on Nur Shams. Residents in the camp gave a different account.

Niaz Zandeq, 40, said his son Jehad was shot dead by an Israeli soldier on his 15th birthday.

Neighbours said troops told Jehad to leave his uncle’s house then shot him as he stepped out of the front door with his hands up.

They showed AFP images of his body in the street with a bullet wound to the forehead.

“The minute he came out, they opened fire hitting him directly in the head,” Zandeq said through tears. “He was unarmed.” The Israeli army has not responded to residents’ allegations.