Israeli strike kills five Palestinians in West Bank

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Five Palestinians have been ******* in an ******** air strike in the north of the occupied West Bank, the ************ health ministry says.

The ************ Red Crescent said a drone targeted a group of five young men near a mosque in the city of Tubas at dawn on Wednesday, and an ambulance crew transferred the bodies to the local government hospital.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) said an aircraft struck an “armed ********** cell” during counter-terrorism activity by security forces in Tubas and the nearby town of Tamun.

An ******** military official said later that a curfew had been declared in Tubas as part of the operation.

The government hospital has been surrounded and people can exit and enter only subject to being checked by forces, according to the official.

************ news agency Wafa reported that ******** forces were carrying out large-scale raids on the city’s outskirts and several neighbourhoods.

Wafa also said an ******** military operation was continuing in the city of Tulkarm and its ******** camps for a second day.

On Tuesday, the ************ health ministry said a ************ man and woman were ******* by gunfire from ******** forces in Tulkarm. The IDF did not comment on the incident.

It comes days after the largest ******** operation in the West Bank since ******’s ******* on ******* on 7 October and the ensuing war in Gaza.

The health ministry said at least 36 Palestinians were ******* during the nine-day operation in the Tubas, Tulkarm and Jenin areas. Most of the ***** were claimed by armed groups as members, but the ministry said children were also among those *******.

An ******** soldier was also ******* during the fighting in Jenin.

Also on Wednesday, ******** paramedics said an ******** man was in a critical condition following a ramming ******* by a lorry near the ******* settlement of Givat Assaf.

The IDF said the attacker was “neutralised” at the scene.

******** media identified the lorry driver as a ************ man from Rafat, near Ramallah.

On Sunday, three ******** security guards were shot ***** by a Jordanian lorry driver at the Allenby Bridge border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.

There has been a spike in ********* in the West Bank since last October.

More than 690 Palestinians have been *******, the ************ health ministry says, as ******** forces have intensified their nearly daily search and arrest raids.

******* says it is trying to stem ************ attacks on Israelis in the West Bank and *******, in which 28 Israelis had been ******* as of 2 September, according to the UN.

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