Five citizens were killed, at dawn on Wednesday, in an air strike carried out by Israeli occupation aircraft targeting a group of citizens near Al-Tawhid Mosque in the city of Tubas.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its crews were able to retrieve the bodies of five Palestinians from the bombing site, and they were transferred to the hospital, while the occupation forces prevented ambulances from reaching the targeted site.

This shelling comes as part of an escalation campaign launched by the occupation forces on the city of Tubas, which witnessed a wide-scale storming of its outskirts and neighborhoods in the early hours of dawn, as the occupation forces declared a curfew on the city, and deployed in its northern areas. This storming was accompanied by intensive flights of reconnaissance planes and helicopters at low altitudes over the governorate's skies.

In another escalation, the occupation forces besieged the Tubas Turkish Governmental Hospital on the northern outskirts of the city, closing the roads leading to it and preventing ambulances from reaching the hospital. They also reinforced their military presence around the city, which led to an escalation of tension among the residents.

The occupation operations were not limited to the city of Tubas only, as local sources reported that the occupation forces later stormed the town of Tamoun, southeast of Tubas, as part of what appears to be a large-scale aggression on the governorate.

This shelling and raid comes as part of a series of ongoing Israeli escalations in the West Bank, which have recently witnessed widespread raids and attacks in various Palestinian cities. Yesterday evening, the occupation forces stormed the city of Tulkarm and its two camps, resulting in the martyrdom of two citizens and the injury of ten others with varying degrees of injury.