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3 People Killed in Israeli Raid in West Bank

Israeli soldiers arrive to push away Palestinian farmers and foreign activists, preventing them from reaching their fields for olive harvest in Qusra village, near the Israeli settlement of Majdalim, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
Israeli soldiers arrive to push away Palestinian farmers and foreign activists, preventing them from reaching their fields for olive harvest in Qusra village, near the Israeli settlement of Majdalim, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
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3 People Killed in Israeli Raid in West Bank

Israeli soldiers arrive to push away Palestinian farmers and foreign activists, preventing them from reaching their fields for olive harvest in Qusra village, near the Israeli settlement of Majdalim, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
Israeli soldiers arrive to push away Palestinian farmers and foreign activists, preventing them from reaching their fields for olive harvest in Qusra village, near the Israeli settlement of Majdalim, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on October 29, 2024. (Photo by Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian officials said Thursday an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank killed at least three people.

The military said its forces were targeting militants in the area of the Nur Shams refugee camp, which has seen repeated battles in recent months.

The military said it eliminated a Hamas militant in the area who was involved in planning attacks on Israelis.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Thursday that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike and third by Israeli gunfire.

Israel said its forces were still in the area.

At least 763 Palestinians, including over 165 children, have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of the Gaza Strip triggered the war there, according to the Health Ministry.

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Israeli Military Says Tuesday’s Strike on Gaza Building Was Targeted

People search the rubble for missing persons at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier that hit the Al-Loh family home in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on October 30, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (AFP)
People search the rubble for missing persons at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier that hit the Al-Loh family home in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on October 30, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (AFP)
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Israeli Military Says Tuesday’s Strike on Gaza Building Was Targeted

People search the rubble for missing persons at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier that hit the Al-Loh family home in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on October 30, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (AFP)
People search the rubble for missing persons at the site of an Israeli strike a day earlier that hit the Al-Loh family home in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on October 30, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (AFP)

An Israeli military official says the target of Tuesday’s attack on a five-story building that Gaza health officials reported resulted in scores of deaths was a spotter with binoculars in the building, and that the intent was not to destroy the structure.

The military official agreed to provide details only on condition of anonymity, citing military protocol and the ongoing investigation into the incident.

The official said Wednesday the building was not known to be a shelter for civilians, and that it collapsed as a result of the strike on the spotter.

The Gaza Health Ministry said Tuesday that at least 70 people were killed in the first of two strikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia, and that more than half of the victims were women and children. The Israeli military had earlier said it was investigating the strike. The Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty tolls do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

The official said there were discrepancies between the numbers of victims reported by authorities in Gaza and what Israeli intelligence indicates, and that the victims included known fighters. The official did not provide detailed evidence to support that assertion.

The Israeli military has repeatedly struck shelters for displaced people in recent months. It says it carries out precise strikes targeting Palestinian fighters and tries to avoid harming civilians, but the strikes often kill women and children.