The Palestinian health ministry said two men were killed in an Israeli air strike on what the military described as a “terrorist cell” near the occupied West Bank city of Tubas, AFP reports.

“An Israeli airstrike on a car near the town of Aqaba” near Tubas in the northern West Bank killed two Palestinians and wounded one, the health ministry said.

All three Palestinians were transported to a hospital in Tubas, it added, but later said Israeli forces raided the same hospital, which the army denied in a statement to AFP.

The Israeli military told AFP that the air force, “acting on intelligence, struck a terror cell that was about to carry out an attack” in the Aqaba area, without specifying the number of casualties.

It said an army unit “was then dispatched to collect the bodies and operated in the area of the Turkish Hospital in Tubas”. However, it added, “they did not enter the hospital.”

The Palestinian health ministry said the Israeli army besieged the hospital, before breaking into it, shooting inside, “assaulting staff and patients, and arresting a number of them”.