Locals said an Israeli military drone targeted the car with two missiles, killing all of the five young men and setting the vehicle on fire.

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing Director of the Thabet Thabet Government Hospital in Tulkarm Amin Khader, said the bodies of five people arrived at the medical facility on Saturday morning.He added they were burned and charred beyond recognition, except for one who was identified as 25-year-old Yaytham Nuriddin Bleidi, a resident of the Tulkarm refugee camp.

Palestinian media outlets reported that Haitham Balidi, the leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, in Tulkarm, has been killed following the Israeli drone strike on the vehicle he was traveling in.

Al Masirah report