The Palestinian Health Ministry on Friday saidvIsraeli forces killed a Palestinian in the West Bank, as a surge of deadly violence in the occupied territory showed no signs of abating.

The ministry said Abdul Rahim Fayez Ghannam, was "shot by live occupation (Israeli) fire in the head" in the village of Al-Aqaba in the northern West Bank.

Troops also "used shoulder-fired missiles and grenades" in the violence, and subsequently found improvised explosive devices and other weapons in the building, the statement added.

After Israeli forces withdrew, Palestinian residents inspected bullet marks and a gaping hole left in the wall of a house, as mourners gathered for the funeral of Ghannam, whose head was wrapped in a keffiyeh while his body was shrouded in a Palestinian flag.

According to the United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA, the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Israel this year is the highest since 2005, stressing that the soaring violence also involved a rise in Palestinian attacks on Israelis.

On Thursday, a Palestinian man rammed into Israeli soldiers near a West Bank checkpoint, killing one, before being shot dead.

A day earlier, Israeli forces killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in Jerusalem after he stabbed a passenger on a tram.