Israeli forces, Palestinian militants clash in occupied West Bank
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Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian militants in Tubas, escalating violence in West Bank amid Gaza conflict.
The Israeli military said it had carried out an airstrike on Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday (August 14) while Hamas said its fighters were engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli forces in the territory's Tubas city.
The official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that one man was killed in a raid in Tubas, while four others were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the nearby town of Tammun.
It did not give their identities, but Tubas residents said the man killed there was as a member of the Islamist Hamas.
The Israeli military said in a statement: "As part of counterterrorism activity...an aircraft struck a number of armed terrorists in Tammun."
It did not give a casualty figure.
The Al-Qassam Brigades - the armed wing of Hamas - said: "Our fighters have been engaged for hours in fierce clashes with the invading occupation forces on several fronts in the city of Tubas in the occupied West Bank."
Reuters journalists at the scene of a raid in Tubas saw a badly damaged house, with shattered glass and blood stains on the ground.
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