Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians during separate operations in the West Bank on Tuesday, with the military confirming it had targeted militants.
Two people were killed in the town of Tammun, said Ahmad Assad, governor of the nearby city of Tubas, whose jurisdiction includes Tammun.
“There is a martyr from the air strike whose body is torn to pieces,” he told AFP.
The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah confirmed two men had been killed by Israeli forces in Tammun.
“The body of one of them, whose identity is still unknown, has been withheld by the army,” the ministry said in a statement.
The military told AFP Tuesday that during an overnight operation, Israeli “forces arrived by helicopter and vehicle and encircled the Tammun and Far’a areas.”
“During the operation, the soldiers engaged in exchanges of fire with terrorists, located seven explosive devices in a mosque and an (Israeli air force) aircraft struck and eliminated two armed terrorists.”
Two other Palestinian men were killed in another Israeli air strike Tuesday in the town of Qabatiyah, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the governor of Jenin said.
“Two martyrs were killed as a result of an air strike carried out by Israeli forces during an operation in the Qabatiyah area,” the governor, Kamal Abu Rubb, told AFP.
The two men were aged 40 and 38 and were related, he added.
The Palestinian health ministry confirmed the incident.
The military told AFP that it conducted an operation “in the area of Menashe,” an Israeli settlement near Qabatiyah.
During the overnight operation, “an armed terrorist cell that opened fire and hurled explosives toward the troops was struck from the air,” and several militants were arrested, it said.
Later on Tuesday, three more people were killed by the Israeli army in Qabatiyah, the Palestinian health ministry said.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said that following reports of gunfire on a vehicle in Qabatiyah, its first responders “managed to retrieve two martyrs from inside the vehicle.”
Mahmud Sadi, the head of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Jenin, told AFP that the third Palestinian was shot dead by the army inside his house in Qabatiyah.
Violence in the West Bank, particularly in the northern areas of the territory, has soared since the war in Gaza broke out on October 7 last year.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 757 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to the Ramallah-based health ministry.
Palestinian attacks on Israelis have also killed at least 24 people in the same period in the West Bank, according to official Israeli figures.
