Three Palestinians were killed, including two children, in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials said.

Violence has escalated in the occupied territory over the last year and a half, as Israel conducts raids targeting armed fighters with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

At least three Israelis have been killed and eight other people injured in an attack in the northern West Bank, Israeli rescue workers said on Monday. Two women and one man died while three people were injured,