Israeli raids on West Bank militants kill six Palestinians

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is establishing "urgent contacts in order to stop this aggression against our people" in Nablus, his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeinah said in a statement.

Six Palestinians were killed in sweeping Israeli raids on October 25 in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what the Army described as an assault targeting the emerging "Lion's Den" armed group.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said that Wadih Al Houh, a leader of a new coalition of Palestinian fighters dubbed The Lions' Den, had been among those killed in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The Palestinian Health Ministry initially reported three dead and 19 wounded shot "by Israeli fire in Nablus".

Later statements said that two more Palestinians had died in Nablus, while another Palestinian was also killed after being shot in the chest in overnight clashes at the village of Nabih Saleh, north of Ramallah.

The Israeli Army said it had carried out a vast operation with police and intelligence officers targeting a site "used by the main operatives of the 'Lion's Den'", describing it as a "headquarters and a workshop for making weapons" of the militants.

"The forces detonated the explosive manufacturing site," the Army statement added, which did not provide a death toll. "During the activity, multiple armed suspects were hit."

At the death reported at Nabih Saleh, the Army confirmed it had "spotted a suspect throwing an explosive device" at soldiers, who opened fire.