DUBAI, November 28. /TASS/. Israeli troops are clashing with Palestinian resistance groups while raiding a number of populated areas in the West Bank, the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television channel reported.

According to the report, the Palestinians opened fire at Israeli soldiers in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the north of the West Bank. Clashes were also reported on the outskirts of Tulkarm.

Reports of hostilities also came from western outskirts of Ramallah. Besides, the Israeli army carried out sweeping raids in Hebron and Qalqilya.

No information about casualties is available at this point.

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 240 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave and some areas in Lebanon and Syria, as well as a ground operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Clashes are also reported in the West Bank.