One Palestinian killed and seven wounded during Israeli raid on Jenin

The operation comes after a spate of hostile activities over the weekend

Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Kafr Dan in January. EPA

One Palestinian was killed and seven wounded during a Monday morning raid by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Jenin.

At least two people were arrested, Palestinian state news agency Wafa reported, citing security sources.

“The city was raided from several locations and snipers were also present on a number of building rooftops surrounding Jenin government hospital,” Wafa said.

Two ambulances were rammed by Israeli vehicles, the news agency said, adding that ambulances were prevented from reaching the wounded.

The Israeli army has yet to comment on the incident.

Several security incidents occurred over the weekend, following a relative lull, after Gaza-based militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Israel launched tit-for-tat strikes for five days earlier in May.

On Sunday, Israel's military said it shot a suspect who was "attempting to place an explosive device" along a road in the occupied West Bank.

Earlier in the day, shots were fired at the Israeli town of Gan Ner, just north of Jenin.

Shots were also fired at the Israeli settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank. No injuries were reported in either incident.

In a sign of escalating tensions, panic erupted on a busy street in Tel Aviv on Sunday after a woman spotted a cockroach in a restaurant, which was mistaken for a terror attack. Two people were slightly injured in the ensuing panic.

The stampede took place on the same street that saw a deadly terror attack outside a cafe in March, killing one.

The weekend incidents came as the Syrian Defence Ministry said that Israeli missiles pummeled Damascus on Sunday night, causing material damage.

The aerial attack by “the Israeli enemy” began at about 11.45pm local time, it added.

Air defences shot down some of the missiles, state news agency Sana reported.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition war monitor, said ambulances had transported wounded people to hospitals.

The observatory said the attack was the 17th by Israel on Syrian territory since the beginning of the year.

Israel has not commented on the strikes, a longstanding practice, although the country's defence minister said last week that Israeli strikes in Syria on Iranian targets have doubled since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government came into office in December.

Earlier this month, Israel hit a key international airport in the northern city of Aleppo.

The attack left seven dead, including a Syrian soldier, and put the airport out of commission, state media said at the time.

Since the start of the war in Syria in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of aerial attacks against regime positions, as well as on Iranian and Hezbollah forces, allies of Damascus and arch-foes of Israel.