Israeli strikes kill five Palestinians in West Bank [Video]

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 …