Israeli attacks kill ten people in Gaza and two people in the West Bank

Israeli strikes early Tuesday in the Gaza Strip killed 10 people, including four children and two women, according to Palestinian officials.

Israeli forces killed two people and shot a third person in an airstrike in the occupied West Bank.

Despite growing pressure from the United States and other members of the international community for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, increased Israeli attacks against the terrorist group Hezbollah are expanding beyond Lebanon's border areas.

Israel is also waging a seemingly endless war against Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip.

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

More than a year of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 people, according to Palestinian health authorities.

They do not distinguish between civilians and combatants but say more than half of those killed were women and children.

The war began after Palestinian terrorists stormed Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and kidnapping 250 others.

Here's the latest:

Ten people die in Gaza in Israeli attacks

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

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health Emergency Services, an attack hit a house in the Tufah district of Gaza City, killing two children and their parents.

Two other children were injured, it was said.

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

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

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

The Israeli military says it only targets terrorists and accuses them of hiding among civilians. Individual attacks, in which women and children are often killed, are rarely commented on.

The war began when Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking another 250 hostage. There are still around 100 hostages in the Gaza Strip, a third of whom are believed to be dead.

According to Gaza's Health Ministry, over 43,000 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli offensive, more than half of whom were women and children.

No distinction is made between civilians and combatants.

Israeli forces kill three people in the occupied West Bank

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

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, a third person was shot dead in the village of Tamoun.

The Israeli military said it had ordered an airstrike on a terrorist cell near Jenin.

There was no immediate comment on the shooting.

Since Hamas' attack from the Gaza Strip on October 7 sparked the war between Israel and Hamas, Israeli forces have carried out almost daily military raids in the West Bank.

According to the Health Ministry, at least 767 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since then.

Most appear to be terrorists killed in fighting with Israeli forces, but the dead also include innocent civilians and people killed during protests.

Israel says the raids are aimed at crushing Hamas in the West Bank and preventing attacks.

Since the war began, Palestinians have carried out dozens of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks against Israelis.

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.