An Israeli was shot and killed in a town in the northern occupied West Bank on Saturday morning, as deadly strikes rocked northern Gaza.
The army announced on Saturday that an Israeli man had been pronounced dead after being shot in the occupied West Bank town of Qalqilya, and that Israeli troops were currently operating in the area. Israeli forces shot dead two militants in the same town on Friday.
Since the start of the war, at least 549 Palestinians in the territory have been killed by Israeli fire, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. During the same period, Palestinians in the West Bank killed at least nine Israelis, including five soldiers, according to UN data.
New deadly strikes on Gaza
The Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency group active in Gaza, said it had removed 19 bodies from a building hit by an Israeli strike on Saturday in an eastern neighborhood of Gaza City.
The group said its rescuers were also searching for survivors at the site of another strike in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. The Associated Press was unable to verify the figures provided by the emergency group.
The Israeli military said its warplanes struck two Hamas military sites in the Gaza City area, but gave no further details.
A leader of an Islamist group close to Hamas killed in Lebanon
Another Israeli strike on Saturday in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon killed a member of the military wing of Jamaa Islamiya, a Sunni Muslim faction closely linked to Hamas.
