Israeli strikes kill four Palestinians in the West Bank

Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed four Palestinians in air strikes during two operations in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, in the latest violence to rock the territory.

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. Videos of the man were shared on social media.

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.

Two other Palestinian men were killed in another Israeli air strike 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 Israeli military said it was checking the reports from Tammun, while it did not offer an immediate comment on Qabatiyah operation.

Another 15 Palestinians were also arrested in different parts of the West Bank by Israeli forces, including one injured person and a minor.

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 754 Palestinians in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, including children, according to the Ramallah-based health ministry. More than 11,600 others have been detained.

Palestinian retaliatory attacks on Israelis have killed at least 24 people in the same period in the West Bank, according to official Israeli figures.