Gaza City, Palestinian territories. An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed three Palestinians, including two 17-year-olds, Palestinian medics said on Friday. Violence continued in Gaza and the West Bank as Israel expanded its offensive across the region.
Strike in Gaza and military response
The Israeli military told Reuters it was not aware of the strike in Gaza.
Regional escalation and reported casualties
Israel has used lethal force in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza and the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours.
Israeli forces killed two people in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, according to Palestinian officials. In Lebanon, the death toll reached 773, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
After nearly two weeks of war, 2,000 people have been killed, most of them in Iran, with several million people displaced from their homes.
West Bank incident and request for evidence
The Israeli military said in a statement on Thursday that it had killed two individuals after they attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack on soldiers. It did not immediately respond to a request for evidence of the attempted ramming.
Gaza violence and ceasefire
While Israeli attacks on Gaza declined at the beginning of the war with Iran, they have since begun to rise. Israel has killed 23 people in Gaza since the US and Israel jointly struck Iran on February 28.
A ceasefire went into effect in Gaza in October, but there have been regular outbreaks of violence since then.
US peace plan and continued West Bank violence
Reuters has reported that US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza has been on hold since the start of the Iran war.
Israeli settlers and military forces have killed at least eight Palestinians across the West Bank since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran began.
How do you think the reported escalation across Gaza, the West Bank, Iran and Lebanon could affect ceasefire efforts?
