The Israeli army has killed 10 Palestinians in a series of incidents in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and near Jerusalem.
The army said an undercover unit shot dead five Palestinian policemen in a car near the West Bank city of Hebron after coming under fire from the car. The dead men were wearing Palestinian police uniforms, the statement said.
Palestinian officials have made no statement yet on the shooting, which the army said took place close to the village of Beit Kahil, about seven kilometres northwest of the divided West Bank city of Hebron.
About 15 Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles swept into the Palestinian-ruled city of Hebron overnight.
Elsewhere, the Israeli army said soldiers killed four Palestinians trying to attack the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in the Gaza Strip before dawn.
An Israeli army spokesman said soldiers guarding Kfar Darom had spotted four men trying to infiltrate the settlement and killed them in a gun fight. The army still has their bodies.
But a Palestinian spokesman said only one policeman had been killed and two wounded when their post was hit by machinegun fire.
Near Jerusalem, a Palestinian man was shot at an Israeli checkpoint between Jerusalem and Bethlehem as he tried to escape from his car, which was rigged with explosives and blew up as he was gunned down, an army spokesman said.