At least 18 Palestinians killed in West Bank across one day

At least 18 Palestinians were killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the health ministry has announced. 

Fourteen of them were killed by Israeli forces in a sweeping military raid and drone strikes on Jenin city and refugee camp. 

More than 20 others were wounded in the military operation in the city, which lasted around 12 hours. 

Elsewhere in the West Bank, four people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during raids in Bethlehem, Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah.

At least 178 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since 7 October. 

"The bloody aggression of the Israeli occupation on Jenin governorate is a deliberate escalation to detonate the situation in the West Bank," the Palestinian foreign affairs ministry said in a statement.