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Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation army fire in the West Bank today amid rising escalation in the occupied territory, security sources said.

The four lost their lives when Israeli occupation forces besieged and opened fire on a house in the town of Tammun, south of Tubas in northwestern West Bank, the sources told the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Israeli forces seized the bodies of the four Palestinians, the sources said.

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Israeli troops killed five Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Tammun Thursday, in a raid the military described as targeting buildings suspected of being used to plan terror attacks.

“The occupation forces killed five young men after besieging a house in the centre of the village,” Tammun mayor Samir Qteishat told AFP.

“The (Israeli) army took four bodies, and we found a fifth martyr, the charred body, after the (Israeli) forces left,” he added.

The Israeli military meanwhile…

Another Palestinian journalist was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza today, bringing to 216 the number of media personnel killed since October 2023, local authorities said.

Hassan Sammour, an anchor for Al-Aqsa Voice Radio, and his family were killed in the pre-dawn strike that hit eastern Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, the government media office said in a statement.

The media office denounced Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists and called on…

Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed on Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.

Aid to Gaza has been cut off since March 2, a tactic Israel has said is intended to force concessions from Hamas, but the group insisted on Thursday that the restoration of humanitarian assistance to the war-ravaged territory was “the minimum requirement” for talks.

It also warned that Gaza…