Two Israeli forces have been killed in a car ramming operation targeting a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.

The operation, by Palestinians, came in response to increasingly deadly attacks by the Israeli regime throughout the occupied territory that have intensified remarkably since October 7, when the regime began a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.

The local Israeli website Walla! has reported that the Israeli army had deployed air and special forces to pursue the suspected individual, who had carried out the operation.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed across the West Bank since the onset of the war that has so far claimed the lives of at least 36,171 people in Gaza, most of whom are women and children.

The Gaza-based resistance movement Hamas hailed the car-ramming incident as a “heroic operation” and “a natural response to a criminal enemy, which commits massacres without any regard to international values, norms, and laws.”