The death toll rose to four today in an Israeli operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, AFP quoted the Palestinian Red Crescent as saying.

“Palestine Red Crescent ambulance teams have just transported an 18-year-old young man who was killed by the Israeli occupation forces in Nur Shams camp,” the group said on X, formerly Twitter, adding his death brought the toll to four.

Two of the four Palestinians were killed by an air strike and two by live bullets, the Red Crescent said.

Israeli forces involved in the operation withdrew from the camp in the morning, AFP journalists reported. The Israeli army told AFP it was checking the death toll.

The military told AFP earlier Thursday that it had been carrying out an operation in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nur Shams, which adjoins the town of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. In total, eight Palestinians were killed in less than 24 hours in the West Bank.