Israeli forces shot dead six Palestinians at a refugee camp in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, AFP quotes the Palestinian health ministry as saying.

The ministry, updating an earlier toll of five dead, did not identify them but said they had been killed “by bullets from the occupation (Israel) in the Al-Fara refugee camp” near Tubas.

“Clashes escalated with the (Israeli) forces who stormed the camp amid intense fire and the blasts of explosions,” said the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.

On Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said four Palestinians, two of them teenagers, were killed in multiple Israeli operations around the West Bank, which has been occupied by Israel since 1967.

The Israeli army did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.