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.

Three Palestinians were killed, including two children, in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials said.

The Israeli military launched a wave of deadly raids across the occupied West Bank overnight and into Tuesday, killing at least three Palestinians who it said were militants. Hamas said in a statement that one of its veteran commanders,