Israeli strikes early Tuesday killed 10 people in the Gaza Strip, including four children and two women, Palestinian officials say. in the busy West BankIsraeli forces killed two people in an airstrike and shot dead a third.

Although Growing pressure from the United States and other countries In the international community for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, intensified Israeli attacks against the militant group Hezbollah are expanding. beyond the border areas of Lebanon. Israel is also fighting a seemingly endless war against Hamas in northern Gaza.

Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah broke out in 2023, at least 3,000 people have been killed and some 13,500 injured in Lebanon, the Ministry of Health reports.

More than a year of Israel’s war against Hamas In Gaza it has killed more than 43,000 people, Palestinian health officials say. They do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but say that more than half of the dead were women and children. The war started later Palestinian militants storm Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnap another 250 people.

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip – Palestinian officials say Israeli strikes early Tuesday killed 10 people in the Gaza Strip, including four children and two women.

An attack hit a house in the Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City, killing two children and their parents, according to the Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service. Two other children were injured, he added.

In the central city of Zuweida, an Israeli airstrike hit a tent where a displaced family was sheltering, killing four people, including a mother and her two children, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in nearby city ​​of Deir al-Balah.

Another attack hit a house in Deir al-Balah and killed two people, the hospital said.

An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies in the hospital morgue.

The Israeli army says it only attacks militants and accuses them of hiding among civilians. He rarely comments on individual strikes, which often kill women and children.

The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking another 250 hostage. Around 100 hostages remain inside Gaza, and a third of them are believed to be dead.

Israel’s offensive has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which says more than half were women and children. It does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces have killed three people in the occupied territories. West Bank.

Two people were killed in an airstrike early Tuesday near the northern city of Jenin, a flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian violence in recent years. A third person was shot in the village of Tamoun, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The Israeli military said it had called in an airstrike against a militant cell near Jenin. There was no immediate comment on the shooting.

Israeli forces have carried out almost daily military incursions into the West Bank since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack from the Gaza Strip sparked the war between Israel and Hamas. The Health Ministry says at least 767 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since then. Most appear to have been militants killed in battles with Israeli forces, but the dead also include Civilian bystanders and people killed during protests..

Israel says the raids are aimed at dismantling Hamas in the West Bank and preventing attacks. Palestinians have carried out dozens of stabbings, shootings and car attacks against Israelis since the start of the war.

Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, and the Palestinians want it to form the main part of their future state.