Palestinians Killed in West Bank as World Leaders Try to Avoid Regional War

Internally displaced Palestinians at a makeshift camp built among the rubble in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, 03 August 2024. (EPA)

Four Palestinians were killed, including three teenagers, and another seven were wounded by Israeli fire during a military raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, as world leaders tried to stop tensions in the Middle East from boiling over into a regional war.
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops. The violence came amid fears of an all-out regional war following the previous week's killings of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran.
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily strikes for the past 10 months during the war in Gaza, The Associated Press said.
Leaders in Egypt and Tüukiye say they are exhausting all avenues possible to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from becoming a wider regional conflict. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet over the weekend that Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies.
The head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Israel on Monday over the assassination of Haniyeh, warning that Israel was “digging its own grave” with its actions against Hamas. Israel's defense minister says the military is ready for a “swift transition to offense.”