At least 39 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to Palestinian officials and medical personnel.

Fadel Naeem, director of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, told the Associated Press that more than thirty bodies had arrived at the hospital. The Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency group active in Gaza, stated that it retrieved nearly the same number of bodies from a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in one of the eastern neighborhoods of Gaza City.

The group said its emergency workers are also digging for survivors at another airstrike site in the Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City.

Israel stated on Saturday that its fighter jets bombed two military sites of Hamas in the Gaza City area, but did not provide further details.

These fatalities come a day after at least 25 people were killed in strikes on camps and 50 others injured near the southern city of Rafah.

A separate Israeli airstrike on Saturday in the eastern Bekaa Valley in Lebanon killed a member of the military wing of the Islamic Group, a Sunni faction closely allied with Hamas, according to the group. This member is the seventh killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon since the war began.

The war between Israel and Hamas erupted on October 7 when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing around 1200 people and taking around 250 others hostage. Israel responded with bombing and a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of more than 37,400 Palestinians there, according to Gaza's health ministry, which does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in its tally.

On Saturday, the Israeli army also reported that an Israeli man was shot dead in the town of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank, where Israeli forces shot two activists on Friday, marking the latest escalation of violence in the region since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas.

Since the beginning of the war, at least 549 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli fire, according to the Palestinian health ministry, which monitors killings. During the same period, Palestinians in the West Bank killed at least nine Israelis, including five soldiers, according to United Nations data.

Israeli citizens are prohibited from entering Qalqilya and other areas in the West Bank under the control of the Palestinian Authority.

In April, the killing of a 14-year-old Israeli settler triggered a wave of settler attacks on Palestinian towns in the area. The army stated that a Palestinian was later arrested in connection with the killing.

In 2014, the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank escalated tensions and ultimately ignited a 50-day war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, at that time the deadliest round of fighting between the two sides.

In recent years, the influence of the Palestinian Authority in the northern West Bank has diminished as the power of armed groups has increased.

The Palestinian health ministry stated on Saturday that a 12-year-old Palestinian boy died from his injuries after being shot by Israeli forces in Ramallah last week. Commenting on the shooting, the Israeli army said that its forces raided the Al-Am'ari refugee camp near Ramallah to arrest a suspect on Friday and then fired on a group of Palestinians who threw stones at them.

Israel stated on Saturday that it is investigating a separate incident involving the conduct of its soldiers after a video surfaced online showing an injured Palestinian being transported on the hood of an Israeli armored vehicle in the northern West Bank. The army said that the man shown in the video is a wanted suspect and was injured during an exchange of fire between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces near the city of Jenin. It added that the man was taken to a nearby Red Crescent ambulance. The army stated that the behavior in the video does not "accord with the values" of the army.

Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem in the 1967 war. Palestinians seek to claim those territories as part of their hoped-for independent state.