Three Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank near Jenin, said the governor of the region, citing local authorities, AFP reports.

“There are three bodies of martyrs that are now with the Israeli side, after they killed them,” Kamal Abu al-Rub said, citing the office in charge of liaising between Israeli and Palestinian authorities in the West Bank.

The Palestinian health ministry said the District Coordination Office had also informed it of the deaths of “three young men shot by Israeli forces near Qabatiya”, which is in the Jenin governorate.

AFP journalists on the ground reported that an Israeli army operation was still ongoing in Qabatiya at noon.