Israeli forces and settlers escalated attacks across the West Bank, raiding cities, storming a mosque, and deploying tanks near Jenin.

Palestinian authorities said on Friday that Israeli soldiers had stormed eight mosques around the city of Nablus in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and set fire to one of them.

Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man and injured more than 30 others after invading the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The Israeli regime’s forces have stormed several mosques in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on the first Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan.

Israel on Friday said its forces did not set ablaze a mosque in Nablus in the West Bank. The military does not know the cause of the fire in the al-Nasr mosque, the Israeli army said in response to an enquiry.