Five Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. The Palestinian Red Crescent said a drone targeted a group of five young men near a mosque in the city of Tubas at dawn on Wednesday,

President Joe Biden said he was “outraged and deeply saddened” by the death of Aysenur Eygi, the Turkish American activist whom Israeli forces acknowledged killing in the occupied West Bank, in some of his more forceful comments challenging Israel’s military operations in the West Bank.

An Israeli airstrike killed at least five people in the West Bank city of Tubas on Wednesday, Palestinian emergency services said, as Israeli security forces continued an extended operation that the military said targeted Iranian-backed militant groups.

Israel Defense Forces conducted a West Bank airstrike around dawn Wednesday that killed five Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Israeli airstrikes on Palestinian territories killed more than two-dozen Palestinians on Wednesday, according to local officials. Israeli airstrikes killed five in the occupied West Bank and at least 20, including 16 women and children in the Gaza strip, they say.

Israeli strikes on Palestinian territories have killed more than two-dozen Palestinians on Wednesday, according to local officials. They say an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and at least 20 people, including 16 women and children, were killed in the Gaza Strip.

Five people aged between 18 and 24 were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Tubas in the West Bank, according to the Health Ministry in Ramallah. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday said its air force "struck an armed terrorist cell" with a drone in the area of Tubas and that its forces were "conducting counterterrorism activity" there and in the area of Tamun in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and civilians, says over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Five Palestinians, aged 18-24, killed in an Israeli airstrike near Tubas amid escalating violence in the West Bank.

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank killed six people, including the son of a prominent jailed militant.