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

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.

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,

STORY: Israeli forces conducted fresh raids in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday (September 11), and Palestinian emergency services said an airstrike in the city of Tubas killed five people. The Israeli military confirmed the strike,

As an Israeli offensive against Palestinian militant groups stretched to a 10th day, residents said many people were trapped in their homes out of fear.

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

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.

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

As the world’s attention focuses on the far more deadly war in Gaza less than 80 miles away, the Israeli military has intensified its crackdown in the West Bank

Eight Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli air strikes in the north of the occupied West Bank, paramedics and health officials say. The first strike took place around dawn on Wednesday and killed five young men in Tubas,