Israel’s military have killed five Palestinian fighters in the occupied West Bank, hours after a pregnant settler was killed in a shooting, as hardline pro-settler leaders, including a government minister, called for Palestinian towns to be razed, Reuters reports.

The military said in a statement it had killed five “terrorists” and arrested a sixth who had barricaded themselves in a building in Tamoun, following an exchange of gunfire and the use of shoulder-fired missiles by Israeli soldiers.

The military wing of the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad later issued a statement saying five of its members were killed while clashing with Israeli forces that surrounded their house in the town of Tamoun, north of the West Bank.

Tzeela Gez, the pregnant woman, was shot near the Brukhin settlement while travelling to the hospital with her husband to give birth. She was pronounced dead at the hospital where her baby was delivered by caesarean section, Israeli media reported.

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