The military said in a statement there had been a “terrorist infiltration” in the Adora settlement The soldiers searched the area and “three assailants were identified and neutralized by the security forces” JERUSALEM: Israeli forces “neutralized” three militants after they attacked a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the army said. The military said in a statement there had been a “terrorist infiltration” in the Adora settlement, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) west of Hebron city, and soldiers had come under fire. The soldiers searched the area and “three assailants were identified and neutralized by the security forces,” the statement said. Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom said its team was treating a man who was shot in the leg. It did not identify the wounded man. Palestinian officials have not yet commented on the incident. In a separate incident in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said a man was killed after being severely beaten by Israel forces in Zeita, north of the city of Tulkarem. The Israeli army did not immediately comment. Excluding annexed east Jerusalem, some 490,000 Israelis live in settlements in the West Bank deemed illegal under international law. Violence has surged in the West Bank since October 7, when Palestinian armed group Hamas launched an attack in southern Israel that sparked a full-scale conflict in the Gaza Strip. Israeli army raids and settler attacks have killed at least 338 people in the West Bank since then, according to an AFP tally based on sources on both sides. Last year, more than 520 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Over the same period, Palestinian militants carried out attacks in Israel and the West Bank that killed at least 41 people, according to the Shin Bet security agency. Israel has occupied the West Bank, home to about three million Palestinians, since the Six-Day War of 1967.