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,

The families of Palestinians killed in an air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tubas held funerals on Friday after Israeli forces withdrew following their latest raid in the territory.

Palestinian journalists say that they were fired on by the Israeli military during a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Kafr Dan.

Israeli strikes Wednesday killed five Palestinians in an area of the occupied West Bank targeted in a major army operation last month, the Palestinian Red Crescent and the Israeli military said.The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said five people were killed "as a result of Israeli air strikes" in Tubas,

At least 5 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on Tubas in the West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported on Wednesday.

The Israeli army stated that a gas truck, driven by a Palestinian man, ran over people near the Givat Asaf junction at a bus stop.

Five Palestinian men have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Two others were injured when a car was hit in Tubas early on Thursday. Israel's military said it struck an “armed terrorist cell” and armed groups claimed the dead as fighters.

Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank during extended operations against militant groups. The military targeted armed fighters and destroyed weapons facilities. Clashes were reported in Tubas,