According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces murdered three Palestinians and wounded eight others in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Friday morning.

Three men were murdered when Israeli soldiers, which have intensified their operations in the region recently, opened fire on their car.

According to Wafa, the region was seeing "Fierce clashes" at the time.

An AFP photographer on the scene observed the bodies of three young men in the mortuary and a bullet-riddled white automobile.

The Israeli army said in a brief Hebrew message that it was conducting an operation in Jenin to recover weapons from two places.

When their men arrived in the first place, they were met with gunfire and retaliated, according to the army.

On their route to the following location, they spotted a strange vehicle parked on the side of the road.

"Shots were identified towards the soldiers who thwarted the terrorists' plans to target them," the army stated, adding that they discovered weapons, including two M-16 assault rifles and ammunition, near the site of the skirmishes.

The Israeli army has increased its raids in and around the Palestinian armed factions' bastion of Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank.

Shireen Abu Akleh, a famous TV reporter for Al Jazeera, was shot and killed while documenting an Israeli army operation in Jenin last month.

The Palestinian Authority, Al Jazeera, and Qatar, the channel's home country, accused the Israeli military of murdering the journalist.

A Palestinian investigation concluded that the journalist, who was shot while wearing a bulletproof vest with "press" printed on it and a reporting helmet, was killed in a war crime.

Israel initially disputed the charges, claiming that a Palestinian shooter may have killed her but later admitted that it could not rule out the potential that Israeli soldiers were responsible.