The high toll and Israel’s use of a warplane were unusual for the Israeli military’s operations in the West Bank, which have escalated during the war in Gaza.

At least 18 people have been killed by an Israeli strike on the Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said on its Telegram account.

At least 18 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian health ministry said late on Thursday. The Palestinian Authority-run news agency Wafa said the air strike had hit a cafe in the Tulkarm refugee camp where many civilians had been present.

The United States sanctioned one informal organization and two people as it continues to tighten its financial grip on those it accuses of perpetrating violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israel has killed Abdel-Aziz Salha, a West Bank Hamas militant who had been jailed for life for taking part in the lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in 2000 but later deported to Gaza in a prisoner swap,

The Israeli military said early on Friday it killed the head of the Hamas network in a strike on West Bank's Tulkarm.

Fourteen people have been killed in an Israeli strike in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Israel says it has killed a Hezbollah commander responsible for July's deadly strike on a Golan Heights football pitch.