WEST BANK: Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, including two who were shot dead when their car broke through a checkpoint, sources on both sides said, AFP reports.

Troops chased a car that had run a checkpoint near the city of Hebron and “fired toward the terrorists and neutralised them”, the Israeli army said in a statement.

The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah confirmed the men were killed, while the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said it had received their bodies. Late on Sunday, the health ministry said two teenagers had been killed by Israeli troops near Ramallah in another incident.

The army said two assailants had thrown an explosive at soldiers at a military base in the area. “The soldiers neutralised the assailants. No IDF (army) injuries were reported,” the army said in a statement.

In a third incident further north, the Palestinian health ministry said another young man had been shot dead by Israeli forces in a refugee camp near the city of Jericho. Medical sources in Jericho told an AFP correspondent that a 16-year-old was killed during an army raid on the camp to arrest a wanted man.