A PALESTINIAN man was killed by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank today, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Israeli forces entered the al-Ein refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus and arrested a man suspected of shooting at an Israeli bus earlier this week, Palestinian media reported. 

During the attack, Mohammed Nada was shot in the chest and later died of his wounds, the ministry said.

The Israeli military did not respond to requests for comment.

The incident came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinian resistance fighters near Nablus.

Israeli-Palestinian fighting has surged in the occupied West Bank, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 six-day war. Palestinians seek the territory, along with East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, for a hoped-for future state.

In recent months, the occupied West Bank has witnessed near-daily Israeli military raids that have increasingly turned deadly.

Earlier this month, Israel’s most forceful incursion into the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades killed 12 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier.

So far this year, over 161 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank, the highest death toll in over a decade. 

Palestinian retaliatory attacks against the Israelis have killed at least 25 people this year.