A Palestinian stone-thrower has been shot dead and nine others were wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Askar refugee camp in the West Bank town of Nablus.
The 20-year-old was shot dead when a group of Palestinian youths attacked Israeli armoured vehicles with rocks and other debris and the soldiers answered with live fire.
Two of the nine wounded Palestinians were in a critical condition, Palestinian medical sources said.
Earlier, Israeli troops exchanged fire with Palestinians during an incursion into the West Bank town of Jenin and its adjacent refugee camp.
Some 50 armoured vehicles and 300 infantry moved into the area, and soldiers carried out house-to-house searches before withdrawing to their positions on the perimeter of the city.
There were no initial reports of any arrests being made.
The army characterized the operation as a routine one, adding that a curfew that had been imposed on the city and the camp had been lifted.
The Israeli army reoccupied all the major autonomous towns on the West Bank except Jericho last summer in response to a wave of attacks, including a double suicide bombing which killed 22 peopleplus the bombers in Tel Aviv.
AFP