West Bank: 18 reported killed in Israeli strike targeting Hamas figure

Palestinian security services say attack on Tulkarm refugee camp is deadliest in the territory for 24 years

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At least 18 people have been killed in the occupied West Bank in an airstrike on a refugee camp in Tulkarm that the Israeli military has claimed killed a local Hamas leader.

Among the dead, according to Palestinan reports, was a family of four including two children, named as Mohammed Abu Zahra, his wife Sajaa, and their two children, Karam and Sham.