Six Palestinians were killed and 18 others injured by Israeli forces during a military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Qabatiya, the governor of Jenin told Reuters on Thursday. The governor, Kamal Abu al-Rub,

Four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, hospitals in the coastal territory said on Sunday. According to al-Awda hospital, three of them died in the shelling of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Israel says it only targets militants and accuses Hamas and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in residential areas.

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.

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.

The post At least 4 Palestinian gunmen said killed by IDF troops during raid in West Bank’s Qabatiya appeared first on The Times of Israel.