A Palestinian woman was shot and killed in her home in the volatile northern West Bank town of Jenin, where the Palestinian Authority is carrying out a rare campaign against militants.

Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have killed a young female journalist in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, her family said on Sunday. Shatha al-Sabbagh, 21, died from gunshot wounds to the head, the Jenin Governmental hospital said late on Saturday.

Palestinian Authority forces are clashing with armed groups in the occupied West Bank in a rare crackdown aimed at restoring order in a militant stronghold.

Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. The PA security forces used similar tactics as used by the Israeli occupation forces in their routine attacks on the area.