Palestinian militants in a West Bank refugee camp shot and killed two alleged collaborators with Israel early on Saturday, Palestinian officials said.

Mobs then kicked the bloodied corpses and dragged them through alleys before trying to tie them to an electrical tower.

The scenes, widely shared on social media, were reminiscent of the chaos in the occupied West Bank during two Palestinian uprisings against Israeli rule that erupted in 1987 and 2000, respectively, each lasting several years.

During these periods of heightened conflict, there were frequent killings of alleged informers, at times with bodies displayed in public.

Saturday’s killings in the Tulkarem refugee camp laid bare the pressures tearing at Palestinian society as the Israel-Hamas war worsens what has already been a bloody year for the territory.

Deadly Israeli military raids, settler attacks and Palestinian militancy in the West Bank have surged since Israel mounted its devastating offensive in Gaza in response to Hamas’ October 7 bloody rampage through southern Israel.

Over 230 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank in the past seven weeks alone, most of them during Israeli army raids.