RAMALLAH (AFP) – The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank yesterday killed five Palestinians, while the Israeli military said it hit a “terrorist cell”.
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 yesterday 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, fighting Palestinian militants and leaving widespread destruction.
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.
