Six children waiting for water are among those killed in an Israeli air strike, emergency service officials say.

Two Palestinians have been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old dual U.

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed at least 17 people, including six children at a water collection point, according to local health officials.

Florida-born Sayfollah Musallet, 20, was beaten to death while visiting family in the West Bank. A second man was found dead with a gunshot wound.

Verified video footage from the strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip showed the bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming.

Israeli settlers killed a 20-year-old Palestinian-American man in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and an eyewitness, as settler violence against Palestinians ramps up in the occupied territory.

Palestinian authorities and family members said Israeli settlers beat and killed a Palestinian-American man. Israel said the violence began when Palestinians threw stones at Israeli civilians.

A US citizen was beaten to death and a Palestinian shot and killed when Israeli settlers attacked Sinjil, the Palestinian health ministry says.

The head of UNRWA said Friday that Gaza has "become the graveyard of children" and "starving people" amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

The decision followed discussions with the European Union, which has pressed Israel to ease the dire humanitarian conditions for Palestinians in the territory.