Five people killed in Israeli strikes in the West Bank city of Jenin as people and emergency services attended the aftermath on Friday,Palestinian authorities said.
The Israeli military said it was conducting counterterrorism activity that included an airstrike in Jenin.
The military said Israeli soldiers had “encircled a building where terrorists have barricaded themselves in” and the soldiers were exchanging fire, while an airstrike had “struck several armed terrorists” in the area.
There was no much information immediately available from either side.
The Popular Resistance Committees, a grouping of armed groups in Gaza issued a statement mourning the five men, and vowed revenge.
It called the attack ‘a cowardly assassination’.
Violence has spiraled in the West Bank since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
The war has so far killed more than 38,000 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry says.
