Israeli strikes kill 10 people in Gaza and 2 in the West Bank

Israeli strikes early Tuesday killed 10 people in the Gaza Strip, including four children and two women, Palestinian officials say.In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed two people in an airstrike and shot a third person dead.Despite growing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon, intensified Israeli strikes against the Hezbollah terrorist group are expanding beyond Lebanon’s border areas.

Israel is also fighting a seemingly endless war against Hamas in northern Gaza.Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah erupted in 2023, at least 3,000 people have been killed and some 13,500 wounded 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, Palestinian health officials say.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 into Israel on Oct.7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducting 250 others.Here’s the latest: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.One strike hit a house in the Tufah neighborhood in Gaza City, killing two children and their parents, according to the Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service.

Two other children were wounded, it said.In the central town 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 the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the nearby city of Deir al-Balah.Another strike hit a house in Deir al-Balah, killing two people, the hospital said.An Associated Press journalist counted the bodies at the hospital morgue.The Israeli military says it only targets terrorists and accuses them of h...