Hundreds of Zionist troops searched the West Bank on Friday for the suspected Palestinian killers of a Jewish settler couple shot dead in Nabulus neighborhood.

Hundreds of Zionist troops searched the West Bank on Friday for the suspected Palestinian killers of a Jewish settler couple shot dead in Nabulus neighborhood.

As the manhunt was under way, numerous attacks on Palestinians were reported in the occupied West Bank, as tensions remained high between them and the occupation forces.

Eitam Henkin and his wife Naama, both in their 30s, were shot as they were driving on Thursday night between the settlements of Itamar and Elon More in the north of the occupied territory.

Their four children were found unharmed in the back of the car.

The Zionist foreign ministry said "at least two" gunmen targeted the vehicle in a "drive-by" attack, but the exact circumstances of the incident were unclear.

Palestinian news agency Wafa said a 35-year-old man was shot in the leg by settlers near Bethlehem, and Zionist police said settlers had stoned a number of cars and set fire to olive trees.

And in the Palestinian village of Beitillu, a short distance from Neria, assailants torched a car and spray-painted "Revenge Henkin" in Hebrew on a nearby wall, the army said.

Tensions have also been running high between the Zionist police and Palestinians at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.