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At least six killed in Israeli raid on West Bank city

At least five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas. Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers shot dead a teenager in the Far’a refugee camp, according to the Wafa news agency.

Israel said on Thursday that military aircraft took part in “three different attacks” on Palestinian fighters who “posed a threat” to their forces in Tubas.

Wafa reported that Israeli soldiers fired several bullets at the 16-year-old, Majed Fida Abu Zeina, in Far’a, “abused him and prevented ambulance crews from reaching him”.

“Then they dragged him out of the camp using a military bulldozer,” the report added.

Earlier on Thursday, Palestinian medics reported that five people were killed in an air attack on a car and two people were injured, one of them critically, according to Wafa.

The Reuters news agency later reported that the number of those killed in the drone attack had risen to at least six, showing a graphic photo of six bodies loaded on top of each other on a truck.

According to Wafa, Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulances took the wounded people to the Tubas Turkish Government Hospital, along with the bodies of the five deceased men.

The agency also reported that Israeli troops were raiding the al-Ein refugee camp, west of the city of Nablus.

Israel began a massive military offensive across the West Bank last week that has killed at least 39 Palestinians and wounded 130, with the vast majority of casualties in Jenin.

On Thursday, The Israeli siege on Jenin continues with troops patrolling the area near the Jenin refugee camp as well as the city of Jenin.

The destruction is continuing not just to the roads, but also to the homes inside the camp, according to reports.

Many people have been lacking a lot of medicine and food, and have been trying to see where the Israeli vehicles are to try and avoid them and go to search for some food and some medicine, according to a report.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced in a statement on Wednesday that Israeli forces were using “lethal war-like tactics” in the West Bank and that Palestinian children were among those killed.

The military raids, mostly concentrated on the Tulkarem and Jenin refugee camps, constitute Israel’s largest assault on the occupied territory since the second Intifada in the early 2000s.

The raids have seen significant violence and numerous arrests, while roads and other infrastructure have been destroyed by Israeli military bulldozers, the OCHA said, adding that it had mobilised organisations from the UN and beyond to assess the damage and humanitarian needs on the ground.

Since October, at least 685 Palestinians, including 157 children, have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the occupied territory, according to Palestinian health officials.

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