Israeli Strike Kills 3 in West Bank

A Palestinian woman watches an operation by the Israeli military in Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
A Palestinian woman watches an operation by the Israeli military in Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Israeli Strike Kills 3 in West Bank

A Palestinian woman watches an operation by the Israeli military in Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
A Palestinian woman watches an operation by the Israeli military in Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank, Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Thursday three people have been killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the occupied West Bank.
It said the apparent strike was carried out overnight into Thursday in the Tulkarem refugee camp. It did not say whether those killed were fighters or civilians.
The Israeli military said aircraft struck “several militants” in Tulkarem as ground forces searched for buried explosives in an operation that was still ongoing.

The West Bank has seen a surge of violence since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza ignited the war there. Israeli forces carry out near-daily raids in the West Bank that often ignite gunbattles with Palestinians.



Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill At Least 17

Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill At Least 17

Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israeli tank and drone strikes in Gaza on Wednesday killed at least 17 people, according to hospital staff and Associated Press journalists who counted the bodies.

In Khan Younis in the south, nine bodies, among them a woman and child, were rushed to Nasser Hospital. Meanwhile, the Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah received eight bodies.

The strikes in Deir al-Balah come as the Israeli military called for Palestinians in some parts of the central city to evacuate.

The UN humanitarian office has warned that mass evacuation orders by the Israeli military this month are pushing Palestinians into overcrowded and unsafe areas along the Gaza coast.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the latest orders issued Wednesday for part of Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis affect 115 sites with more than 150,000 displaced men, women and children, including UN and many informal and makeshift shelters.

The orders also impact offices, warehouses and residences of the United Nations and humanitarian organizations, and have made three water wells serving tens of thousands of people inaccessible, he said.