Israeli occupation airstrike kills five Palestinians in W. Bank

Five Palestinian citizens were martyred early Wednesday in an airstrike carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft targeting a group of citizens in the city of Tubas in the West Bank, the Health Ministry said. "Five martyrs were killed in an occupation airstrike on Tubas," the ministry said in a press release. The latest martyrs were idenfitied as Mohammad Sawafta, 19, Majd Sawafta, 23, Qais Sawafta, 24, Yassin Sawafta, 22, and Talaba Basharat, 18, according to local sources. Israeli occuping forces have been targeting Tubas since Tuesday as part of their onoging escalations in the West Bank. Source: Kuwait News Agency