Israeli strikes early Tuesday killed 10 people in the Gaza Strip, including four children and two women, Palestinian officials say. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces killed two people in an airstrike and shot a third person dead.

The Israeli military said, without giving details, that its forces had "eliminated terrorists" in the central Gaza Strip and Jabalia area.

The Israeli military killed Izz al-Din Kassab, one of the last senior Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip, it said on Friday. Kassab was a member of the Islamist terrorist organization's politburo and responsible for relations with other extremist groups in the coastal strip.

A senior Hamas official said on Tuesday the Palestinian militant group was studying new proposals from mediators to end the Gaza war but reiterated that these should entail a complete Israeli military withdrawal from the enclave.

The Israeli military announced on Friday that it has killed senior Hamas official Izz al-Din Kassab in an airstrike targeting his vehicle in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip. Kassab, reportedly one of the last remaining high-ranking Hamas members involved in coordinating regional alliances,

The Israeli military said Friday it had killed a senior Hamas official it described as one of the last surviving senior officials in the Gaza militant group. In a statement posted to social media,