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Israeli police have accidentally killed a young Palestinian girl after opening fire on a car suspected of a ramming attack, emergency services in Israel have said.

The border police said they fatally shot the girl, reported to be three or four years old, after firing at a couple in a car who, they said, rammed into two Israeli officers at a West Bank checkpoint.

The unidentified girl was in a van in front of the car which ploughed into the crossing near the Palestinian village of Biddu, just northwest of Jerusalem on Sunday evening.

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Video footage from a security camera appeared to show a white car being driven into a pair of Israeli police officers at the checkpoint.

Police then chased after the vehicle, opening fire.

They hit a man and a woman inside the car, along with the girl in the vehicle in front, police said.

Israeli paramedics gave her age as three but Palestinian sources told the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, that she was four.

She was treated at the scene but pronounced dead by Israeli doctors, the Israeli ambulance services said, without giving the cause of death.

A female officer in the paramilitary border police was also lightly wounded, paramedics said.

The Israeli police said in a statement a car with a man and a woman stopped at a crossing near Jerusalem and committed a ramming attack against border police, who responded with live fire.

The suspected attackers were “neutralised”, the police said, without providing details.

Palestinian sources told WAFA that the couple were also killed in the shooting.

‘Dire situation’ elsewhere in West Bank after clash

Earlier, the Israeli army said one of its helicopters attacked Palestinians who were throwing explosives at Israeli vehicles in Jenin, also in the West Bank.

Seven Palestinians were killed in the airstrike, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Mujahhid Nazal, a doctor at a nearby clinic who rushed to the scene, said: “It was a really dire situation, seven young men were lying on the ground.”

Violence erupted after a policeman was killed and three others were injured when a roadside bomb exploded near an Israeli security vehicle.

Tensions have increased in the West Bank since Israel invaded Gaza.

The war there is nearing the three-month mark and has killed more than 22,800 people, more than two-thirds of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. Its count does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

Some 85% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes and squeezed into small slivers of the territory. Israel’s siege has caused a humanitarian crisis, with a quarter of the population starving because not enough supplies are entering the area, according to the UN.

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after its 7 October attack, in which militants killed around 1,200 people and abducted approximately 240 others.

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Netanyahu aide hopes war has reached ‘beginning of the end’

Mark Regev, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told Sky News on Sunday that Israeli forces had finished dismantling Hamas in northern Gaza.

Mr Regev suggested this “success” could mean the “beginning of the end” for the war.

He said any rebuilding and return of Palestinians to the area would “have to wait for the end of combat operations”.

However, he said there was hope that Palestinians could go back to their homes “in the not too distant future”.

The adviser also said he agreed with Antony Blinken – the US secretary of state – who said earlier that there have been too many civilian deaths in Gaza.

“We didn’t want to see a single civilian death, and we’ve tried to make a maximum effort to avoid civilian deaths,” Mr Regev told Sky News.

He claimed the number of civilians getting caught in the crossfire “has been going down”.

Questioned on whether there was any disagreement between Israel and the US on post-conflict security, after Mr Blinken said Washington “had a vision” for Gaza’s future, Mr Regev said the two countries agreed on the “overall strategy” to ensure Hamas is “destroyed”.

“There can be no answers on what comes afterwards,” he said.

“We would like to see a government by Palestinians, for Palestinians… that insists on the demilitarisation of the Gaza Strip and de-radicalisation.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won an overwhelming majority in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election, giving her party – the Awami League – a fourth consecutive term.

After an election campaign fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, it was widely reported that Ms Hasina’s party won 216 seats out of 299.

The win also means the 76-year-old has become the country’s longest-serving leader.

A final official declaration on the outcome of the vote is expected by the Election Commission on Monday.

A total of 120 million people were eligible to vote with around 40% turnout, according to Kazi Habibul Awal, chief election commissioner.

The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led by former prime minister Khaleda Zia refused to accept the election outcome.

The party accuses Ms Hasina of turning Bangladesh into a one-party state and muzzling dissent and civil society.

Rivalry-fuelled violence

Both Ms Hasina and Ms Zia have run the country alternately for many years, their rivalry fuelling violence and a polarised political landscape in the country.

In the build-up to the election, there were at least 18 arson attacks, including one on a train on Friday night that resulted in four deaths.

Seven men belonging to the BNP and its youth wing were arrested for their alleged involvement in the train attack.

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The party deny any role in the attack.

Opposition leader Ms Zia has been under house arrest for over two years on corruption charges, which she denies.

Her party claimed around 20,000 of its members had been jailed ahead of the election, a figure which the government disputed.

The government went on to defend the election, saying 27 parties and 404 independent candidates participated.

But with scores of candidates from the Awami League running as independents and mostly smaller opposition parties in the race, analysts say Ms Hasina’s win was near inevitable.

Independent candidates took 52 parliamentary seats, while the Jatiya Party – the third largest in the country – took 11, according to TV stations.

Police investigating a massacre in a Mexican state where two rival criminal groups have been fighting for control have found five burned bodies.

Mexican authorities in the violence-plagued southwestern state of Guerrero said they found the bodies stacked onto a burned vehicle when they arrived in Buenavista de los Hurtado on Friday.

The discovery followed reports of an attack with drones and gunmen on Thursday, allegedly by the Familia Michoacana drug cartel.

The attack caused an undetermined number of deaths and wounded at least six other people, a local human rights group said on Saturday.

Local media have reported that at least 30 people have died due to the attack.

Rev José Filiberto Velázquez, a priest and director of the human rights organisation, the Minerva Bello Centre, said some 80 local residents were forced to abandon their homes and that many community members were still missing.

Guerrero state spokesperson Rene Posselt said evidence suggests it was a targeted attack by Familia Michoacana members on a rival group known as Los Tlacos rather than being aimed at the community.

Unverified footage circulating on social media shows heavily armed men dressed in military clothing piling bodies – some naked, their clothes scattered around the ground – on the rear of a red pickup truck riddled with bullet holes.

Some of the bodies appeared to have limbs cut off and at least one had a head missing.

A severed head is shown being arranged atop the human pile by one man while another, holding the camera and filming the pickup from all sides, says in heavy Mexican swear words to “send more”.

The video has more than three million views on X, since it was shared on Friday.

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Mr Posselt says police are investigating the footage.

He added that some 170 soldiers, National Guard troopers, state police officers and state prosecutor’s agents arrived in the area on Friday to begin their investigation into the massacre.

Investigators say villagers had declined to give DNA samples that would allow for the identification of the remains and advance investigations.