The heaviest death toll in years came as troops battled militants in the flashpoint West Bank town.
Nine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials say - the deadliest in years.The Israeli military said its troops went in to arrest Islamic Jihad militants planning "major attacks".
The Palestinian health ministry identified three of those killed as Magda Obaid, 60, Saeb Izreiqi, 24, and Izzidin Salahat, 26. Twenty people were also wounded, four of them seriously, it said. The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jenin reports that the house which the IDF said was being used as a hideout by the Islamic Jihad cell was still smouldering where furniture inside caught fire.
"There were some young Palestinians next to our building who then came and surrounded it. They shot at them. And then there was a lot of people who were killed." The children's ward of a local hospital was also hit by Israeli tear gas, she said. The IDF told AFP news agency that there was activity not far away and that it was possible some tear gas entered through an open window.
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