The Israeli military said a soldier was killed and another seriously wounded in an operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the latest violence in the Palestinian territory, AFP reports.

Palestinian official news agency Wafa reported that a young Palestinian man was wounded in the face by shrapnel during the latest military raid.

Captain Alon Sacgiu, 22, “fell during an operation in the Jenin sector”, the military said in a brief statement, without giving details of the circumstances of his death.

Another soldier was seriously wounded and taken to hospital, the military said.

Wafa said Israeli troops stormed Jenin shortly before midnight and were deployed until dawn in the city and its outskirts.

Troops “deployed dozens of sniper soldiers on the roofs of commercial buildings and houses and in the neighbourhoods of the city and its commercial centre,” the Palestinian agency reported on its English language website.

When contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it had withdrawn from Jenin but gave no further details of its operation.