JENIN (Reuters) -Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military offensive on the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. Israel’s military said in a statement its forces had encircled a building where militants had barricaded themselves in, and that an Israeli aircraft had struck targets in the area. (Reporting by […]
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Five Palestinians killed in Israeli offensive on West Bank’s Jenin, ministry says
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JENIN (Reuters) -Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli military offensive on the West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Israel’s military said in a statement its forces had encircled a building where militants had barricaded themselves in, and that an Israeli aircraft had struck targets in the area.
(Reporting by Ali Sawafta; Writing by Tala Ramadan and Christian Lowe; Editing by Andrew Heavens, William Maclean)