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Latest developments in the Middle East: 10 people died in Gaza and 2 in the West Bank in Israeli attacks
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Latest developments in the Middle East: 10 people died in Gaza and 2 in the West Bank in Israeli attacks

10 people, including four children and two women, died in the Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks early on Tuesday.

Palestinian officials said 10 people, including four children and two women, were killed in the Gaza Strip in an Israeli attack early Tuesday. occupied West BankIsraeli forces killed two people in the airstrike and shot a third person dead.

On the contrary Increasing pressure from the US and others Israel’s attacks on the Hezbollah militant group are expanding as the international community intensifies for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon Beyond Lebanon’s border areas. Israel is also fighting seemingly endless war Against Hamas in northern Gaza.

According to the Ministry of Health report, at least 3 thousand people have died and 13 thousand 500 people have been injured in Lebanon since 2023, when the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah broke out.

more than a year Israel’s war against Hamas Palestinian health officials say more than 43,000 people have died in Gaza. They do not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but say more than half of those killed were women and children. The war started after this Palestinian militants attacked Israel The killing of approximately 1,200 people, mostly civilians, on October 7, 2023, and He kidnapped 250 more people.

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Here is the latest situation:

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

According to the emergency service of the Gaza Ministry of Health, an attack hit a house in the Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City, killing two children and their parents. It was stated that two other children were also injured.

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

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

A journalist from the Associated Press counted the bodies in the hospital morgue.

The Israeli military says it is targeting only militants and accuses them of hiding among civilians. Individual strikes that kill mostly women and children are rarely commented on.

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

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 43,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks; More than half were women and children. It does not discriminate between civilians and combatants.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials say Israeli forces killed three people in occupied territory 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 army said it launched an airstrike on a militant cell near Jenin. There was no immediate comment on the shooting.

Israeli forces have been carrying out almost daily military raids in the West Bank since a Hamas attack on the Gaza Strip on October 7 triggered an Israel-Hamas war. The Ministry of Health announced that at least 767 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since then. Most appear to be militants killed in clashes with Israeli forces, but the dead also include: civilians and people dying during the protests.

Israel says the raids are aimed at dispersing Hamas in the West Bank and preventing attacks. Palestinians have carried out dozens of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming 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.