THE PALESTINIAN RED Crescent Society has said Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank yesterday killed five Palestinians.
The five people were killed “as a result of Israeli air strikes (on) a group of citizens in Tubas,” Palestinian Red Crescent spokesman Ahmed Jibril told AFP, adding that the dead were “transferred to the Turkish government hospital in Tubas”.
According to the Red Crescent, the drone fire occurred near a mosque in the Tubas region around dawn.
The Israeli military said that its forces were “currently conducting counterterrorism activity in the area of Tubas and Tamun” and that one of its aircraft “struck an armed terrorist cell” during an operation in Tubas in the northern West Bank. It did not provide any toll.
An eyewitness told AFP that Israeli forces were “storming the city of Tubas and the town of Tammun to the east”.
At the end of August, Israel launched a large-scale offensive across the northern West Bank, including the Tubas area.
Last week, Palestinian medics said an Israeli air strike on a car in Tubas killed five people.
The Israeli army said at the time it had conducted “three targeted strikes on armed terrorists” and that the dead included Muhammad Zakaria Zubeidi, “a significant terrorist from the Jenin area”, also in the northern West Bank.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967 and has ramped up deadly raids in the territory since 7 October.
Since then, according to the Palestinian health ministry, at least 698 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli military and settlers. In the same period, around 23 Israelis, including security forces, have been killed in Palestinian attacks in the territory, according to Israeli officials.
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