The Israeli army admitted that it had "failed" to prevent an attack by settlers on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, during which a Palestinian was killed and homes, cars and agricultural lands were set on fire.

During this week, the northern West Bank witnessed an escalation that began on Monday with an Israeli military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, killing seven Palestinians, including a young man and a girl, both of whom were fifteen years old.

The Israeli army fired missiles from a helicopter during the operation.

And Tuesday, four settlers were killed when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire on them at a gas station near the Eli settlement. The two Palestinian attackers were killed.

On Wednesday, a Palestinian was killed after being hit by Israeli gunfire in the chest, amid an attack on the village of Turmusaya, north of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, by 200 to 300 settlers.

According to the mayor of the village, they burned about 50 vehicles and set fire to agricultural crops and agricultural lands, and 35 houses were damaged by the burning.

Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari confirmed that his forces tried to prevent settlers from attacking Turmusaya, but there were not enough soldiers.

"We didn't have enough forces in the first wave in the area they chose... This time we failed," he told reporters.

A delegation of more than 20 diplomatic missions, including those of the European Union and the United States, visited the village on Friday to inspect the damage.

European Union representative Sven Kun von Burgsdorff criticized Israel's failure in its obligations to protect the Palestinians, saying, "It has made no attempt or effort to stop the settlers."

For its part, the Israeli police announced Friday the arrest of three people in connection with the violence, without giving further details.

A large number of Palestinians who hold American citizenship reside in Turmusaya, and residents expressed their anger at Washington's inaction.

Yasser Elkam, 33, said, "I am speaking on behalf of the residents of this peaceful town, where about 80 to 90 percent of the population are American citizens. We carry passports. Does this passport have any value?"

A US official told AFP that Omar Jubara, 25, who was killed on Wednesday, had a permanent US green card.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said that "violence, combined with incendiary rhetoric, only pushes Israelis and Palestinians into the abyss."

The Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, insisted on calling for a large-scale "military operation" in the occupied West Bank.

Ben Gvir, a settler, said, "The elimination of terrorists is not one or two, but tens and hundreds, and if necessary, thousands."