Deaths in Tulkarm bring toll to 16 during Israel’s deadliest operation in occupied territory since 7 October
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The Israeli military said it had killed five Palestinian fighters inside a mosque in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, in the midst of one of the largest assaults on the occupied territory for months.
The overall toll of 16 Palestinians killed in less than two days would make it the deadliest Israeli operation in the West Bank since 7 October and the attack in Israel by Hamas which ignited the Gaza war.