Half of the pupils stayed away from classes at an elementary school in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a day after it was attacked by Jewish settlers with wooden bats in violence that has surged since the Gaza war erupted.

Israel’s military accused Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad of “hurling explosive devices,” while UNRWA said he was shot “on the roof of his house having a coffee.”

The United Nations said one of its workers was killed in the West Bank during an Israeli raid Thursday, marking the first such killing of a UN employee in the Palestinian territory in more than a decade as tensions escalate.

By Ali Sawafta TUBAS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as troops continued an extended operation against militant groups in the territory,