An Israeli drone strike on Sunday killed one Palestinian and wounded five in the Nur Shams camp in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, the Palestinian Authority health ministry said.

Palestinian media reports identified the slain man as Saeed Jaber, a member of an armed group and relative of Muhammad Jaber, known as Abu Shuja’a, the commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s local wing in Tulkarem.

Among the five who were injured, two were in serious condition, the PA health ministry said.

There was no immediate comment on the drone strike by the Israel Defense Forces.

Israel Defense Forces special forces were also carrying out a raid in the Far’a camp, in the northern West Bank on Sunday.

Military sources said the troops detained several wanted Palestinians and were exchanging fire with gunmen.

Tensions have been high in the West Bank amid the war in the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7 when thousands of Hamas terrorists attacked southern Israel under a barrage of rockets fired at population centers all over the country. They brutally killed 1,200 people, amid instances of torture and rape, and seized 251 hostages.

Since October 7, the IDF has carried out some 53 airstrikes in the West Bank, using drones, attack helicopters, and fighter jets.

Those strikes have killed more than 80 terror operatives, and dozens more were wounded, according to the military.

Troops have also arrested some 4,200 wanted Palestinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,750 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Palestinian Authority health ministry, more than 540 West Bank Palestinians have been killed in that time.

During the same period, 21 Israelis, including security personnel, have been killed in Palestinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another four members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.

On Sunday, a top Hamas official implicitly called on West Bank Palestinians, including members of the PA security forces, to carry out attacks against Israelis.

“We are working to expand the resistance in the West Bank. I ask every person in the West Bank who carries a weapon, officially or unofficially, to fulfill his responsibility, because every person with a weapon in the West Bank can make a difference and have a qualitative impact,” said Hussam Badran, a former leader of Hamas’s military wing in the northern West Bank who orchestrated several terror attacks against Israelis during the Second Intifada, and lives today in Qatar.

“A Palestinian today does not need an order or decision by any party to act, and must take the initiative on his own,” he added in an interview with the Qudsuna satellite TV channel.