UN Palestinian relief agency says employee was first to be killed in the territory in more than a decade, but Israeli military says he was a ‘terrorist’

As an Israeli offensive against Palestinian militant groups stretched to a 10th day, residents said many people were trapped in their homes out of fear.

STORY: Israeli forces conducted fresh raids in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday (September 11), and Palestinian emergency services said an airstrike in the city of Tubas killed five people. The Israeli military confirmed the strike,

Five people were killed in an Israeli airstrike early Sept. 11 on Tubas, a village in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank killed six people, including the son of a prominent jailed militant.

Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and civilians, says over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Five Palestinian men have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Two others were injured when a car was hit in Tubas early on Thursday. Israel's military said it struck an “armed terrorist cell” and armed groups claimed the dead as fighters.

Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade; missile hit unpopulated area, Israel military says

Israel’s military accused Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad of “hurling explosive devices,” while UNRWA said he was shot “on the roof of his house having a coffee.”

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday one of its employees was killed this week during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank, the first such death in more than a decade. UNRWA said th