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.

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,

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

The Israeli army on early Wednesday killed five Palestinians in an airstrike in the city of Tubas, the occupied northern West Bank, as the army started an incursion into the city.

In our news wrap Tuesday, Palestinians say an Israeli airstrike on a tent camp killed at least 19 people and injured 60 more, Israel's military said the American activist killed in the West Bank last week was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by IDF fire,

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.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a group of Palestinians near the Al-Tawhid Mosque in the city of Tubas claiming the lives of five young men.

The Israeli military said on Thursday that an air strike killed four militants in the Jenin area of the occupied West Bank. Jenin is a bastion of Palestinian militant groups fighting Israel, and has been a focus of large-scale Israeli military raids launched in late August that the Palestinian health ministry says have killed dozens.

Rub, said four of the injured are in critical condition, and that Israeli forces withdrew from Qabatiya after destroying infrastructure in the area. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

An AP journalist in the town of Qabatiya witnessed three soldiers push the bodies off the roofs of adjacent multi-story buildings, sending them falling out of view.