Violence has escalated in the occupied territory over the last year and a half, as Israel conducts raids targeting armed fighters with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Palestinian officials said two children were among three people killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank on Wednesday which the military said targeted militants.Israeli forces carry out frequent raids on Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank,

An Israeli air strike on a house in Jabalia al-Balad, northern Gaza, has left eight Palestinians dead and several others injured, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic. The Wafa news agency reports that Israel’s air strike on the Abu Kharouf family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp has claimed four lives.