RAMALLAH: An Israeli airstrike in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas killed two Palestinians on Monday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, while the Israeli army confirmed it hit “armed individuals.”
In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that two men aged 26 and 32 were killed “by Israeli shelling in Tubas” in the northern West Bank.
The Israeli military said one of its aircraft struck and killed “several armed individuals” during an operation in the city.
It said the operation aimed “to apprehend a wanted suspect and to thwart terrorist infrastructure sites” and that it had confiscated several weapons in a post-strike raid on the targeted area.
The strike came a week after the Palestinian Health Ministry said the Israeli army besieged the Tubas Hospital before breaking into it, shooting inside, “assaulting staff and patients and arresting a number of them.”
The army said its soldiers were deployed around the hospital to collect the bodies of militants struck earlier but that “they did not enter the hospital.”
