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"What happened in Hawara a few weeks ago was just an example of what can happen on a larger scale with a regular force of extremist settlers," said one Palestinian activist.

Israeli security forces watched as settlers threw stones and fired live bullets at Palestinian homes and property in Hawara, the town’s mayor said, after two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack on Saturday.

Palestinian teachers have called for more pay and the founding of a union, following rising costs in the occupied West Bank.

Ramadan is often a tense month in the occupied Palestinian territories, with Israeli assaults on civilians continuing.

"Prisoners have been in a constant battle with [Israel's] prison services since the Gilboa prison break, and this time it was the highest point in that confrontation so far," the spokesperson for the Palestinian Prisoners' Cub said to The New Arab.

Seven members of the "Higher Emergency Committee", the prisoners' leadership body representing all political affiliations, started refusing food on Tuesday. A first wave of 2,000 prisoners will join the strike on Wednesday, the first day of Ramadan.

"The entire logic is security-driven, without mention of the political plight of Palestinian people," said a protester. "It's a summit for Israel's interests, not for ours."

The incident occurred as Palestinian and Israeli officials were meeting at a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, in a bid to discuss measures on de-escalating violence in the West Bank, which has claimed 89 Palestinian lives this year alone.

An Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday left four Palestinians killed, including a teenager.

"The soldiers shot live fire in every direction, wounding three youngsters, all civilians," said a resident of Nablus.