Five people have been killed in the West Bank as Israel carried out a strike on a mosque it says was used to organise attacks – as more than 50 Palestinians are reported to have died in strikes on Gaza overnight.

Israel also struck two airports in Syria as fears grow the two-week old war with Hamas will spiral into a broader conflict.

The Israeli military has said it carried out it airstrike on the Al-Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank because it was used as a “command centre to plan and execute terrorist attacks against civilians”.

The Palestinian health ministry said two people who are yet to be identified were killed in the strike on the mosque.

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The ministry added that Israeli forces also shot and killed two men in northern cities in the West Bank – a 19-year-old in Tubas and a 26-year-old in Nablus.

The health ministry later said Israeli forces killed a fifth person in the territory overnight.

The West Bank fatalities mean 90 Palestinians have died there since Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on 7 October, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

It come as more than 50 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight, medical sources in the territory said.

The Palestinian health ministry says 4,385 people been killed in strikes on Gaza since the conflict began.

Official Israeli sources say 1,400 people from Israel have died since the Hamas incursion.

Israel has been conducting airstrikes on Gaza following Hamas’s attack two weeks ago, saying it is trying to destroy the militant group.

Many of those killed in the West Bank are killed in clashes with Israeli forces rather than strikes.

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