Israeli forces have killed at least eight Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, seven of them in clashes during a raid in the town of Tulkarm near the boundary with Israel, Palestinian medics and local media said.

According to Reuters, the Israeli army and police said their forces, sent into Tulkarm to detain suspected fighters, came under fire and killed several Palestinians in the ensuing skirmish.

An Israeli air strike hit a group of Palestinians who shot and threw a bomb at the group, an army and police statement said. The official Palestinian news agency WAFA said the air strike was carried out by a drone and killed three people.

An eighth Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire in Beit Aynoun, north of the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank, medical officials said.