An Israeli air strike has killed four people in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Authority says, with the Israeli military saying they were a “terrorist cell” planting an explosive device.

According to AFP, the strike took place in the Nur Shams camp, which has seen a surge in violence in recent weeks as Israeli raids and attacks by Israeli settlers have escalated to levels not seen in decades against the backdrop of the Gaza conflict.

The Palestinian Authority’s health ministry said four people had been “killed as a result of the occupation’s bombing of Nur Shams camp” near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Telegram that one of its aircraft had “struck a terrorist cell in the area of Nur Shams while they planted an explosive device”.

According to the Palestinian official news agency Wafa, the dead were men, aged 20 to 25, killed in a strike by an Israeli drone near the centre of the camp. On Monday, a woman and child were killed in an Israeli raid in the Nur Shams camp, according to Palestinian officials, and four others were wounded.