Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill 10 people in Gaza and 2 in the West Bank

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

Despite increasing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, intensified Israeli attacks on the militant group Hezbollah are expanding beyond Lebanon’s border areas. Israel is also waging a seemingly endless war against Hamas in northern Gaza.

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

For more than a year, Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 people, Palestinian health officials say. They make no distinction between civilians and fighters, but say more than half of the dead were women and children. The war began after Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and kidnapping 250 others.