[IsraelTimes] Attack comes a day after another 6 Palestinians, including at least 4 Hamas gunmen, were killed in strike on the city; overnight, three troops hurt by roadside bomb
Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday evening, Palestinian medical officials said.
The strike came a day after another strike in Jenin left six other Palestinians dead.
The Israel Defense Forces said it had carried out the strike on Wednesday in a joint operation with the Shin Bet security agency. It said further details would be provided later.
The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry named the six Palestinians killed on Wednesday as Muhammad Araarawi, 33, Ahmad Araarawi, 37, Mahmoud Fayyad, 22, Osama Abu Droubi, 26, Mustafa Fayyad, 26, and Awad Abu Zaid, 27.
Images posted to social media appeared to show Mustafa Fayyad brandishing firearms, indicating he was a member of a terror group in Jenin.
There was no immediate comment from Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Both terror groups have a significant presence in Jenin.
On Tuesday evening, the IDF carried out a drone strike in Jenin that killed another six Palestinians, four of whom were later claimed by Hamas as members of the terror group.
The strikes come amid a campaign by the PA to clamp down on terror factions in the northern West Bank city.
In a separate incident overnight, three IDF soldiers were injured, two seriously and one lightly, by a roadside bomb in the West Bank city of Qabatiya, close to Jenin, the military said on Wednesday morning. The soldiers were in a light armored vehicle when it was hit by a bomb planted in the area by Palestinian gunmen. The soldiers, of the Kfir Brigade and Menashe Regional Brigade, were taken to a hospital for treatment. 
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