The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that military, police and intelligence forces searched more than 220 sites in the occupied West Bank in the previous 24 hours, as Israel launched what it called a major "counterterrorism operation" in the Palestinian territory.

Israeli strike kills Hezbollah chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabatabai in Beirut as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls him a "mass murderer" with $5 million bounty on his head.

Israeli forces on Thursday killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed "in cold blood."

Israeli authorities are reviewing an incident in which soldiers shot and killed two people who appeared to be surrendering in the occupied West Bank, an act described by the Palestinian Authority as a “fully-fledged war crime.

In two years, Katz learned to lead others in uniform. She patrolled the West Bank, deterred attacks on Israelis and engaged in search and rescue operations. She deepened both her love for Israel and her wish that the country be an example to others.

The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday, while a hospital said that Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children in the territory's south.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday, while a hospital said that Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children in the territory’s south.

The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food,