Two people killed in Dura, near Hebron, and one person killed near Tulkarem, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
At least three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said.
Two Palestinians were shot dead during clashes with the Israeli army in the town of Dura, near Hebron, in the southern West Bank on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Mohammed Hasan Abu Sabaa, 22, died after being shot in the heart by Israeli forces, the ministry said.
Ahed Mahmoud Mohammed, 23, died after being shot in the head, the director of the Dura government hospital told Wafa.
Ten other people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, the health ministry said.
The Israeli military said its forces opened fire on a group of about 100 Palestinians participating in a protest during which bricks and incendiary bombs were thrown at soldiers.
The military said the slain man had thrown a firebomb, but provided no evidence to support the claim.
In another incident, Fares Khalifa, 37, was fatally shot by Israeli forces near Tulkarem in the northern West Bank, according to the Health Ministry.
Since the start of the war in the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, the West Bank has seen a surge in violence and attacks by Israeli forces unprecedented since the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Israeli forces killed 30 Palestinians, including seven children, in the West Bank in the first 15 days of the year.
Last year, 507 Palestinians were killed, the highest annual toll since OCHA began recording casualties in 2005.
Students arrested
Separately, Israel arrested students at a university in the occupied West Bank in an early morning raid.
The students attend An-Najah National University in Nablus, which called for their immediate release, calling the military raid “blatant Israeli aggression.”
The university and the Palestinian Prisoners Club, an advocacy group, said 25 students were arrested in the raid.
The Israeli military said security forces had arrested “nine wanted people associated with a Hamas student cell.”
