As the Gaza war keeps escalating, five people were killed and two more got injured after an Israeli airstrike hit a building in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent said early on Saturday.The attack took place in the West Banks Balata refugee camp, while the Palestinian Red Crescent medics earlier said that their medics were dealing with the five serious injuries from the blast, all of them men ranging from 19 to 25 years in age. West Bank Violence West Bank is an occupied territory of Israel that the latter had captured in the 1967 Middle East War. This region has seen a sudden increase in violence after the Hamas attack on October 7. In the Israel-Hamas conflict, Israeli security forces in West Bank have claimed the lives of 186 Palestinians including 51 children since the deadly surprise attack of Hamas on Israel last month, as per UN reports. The Israeli settlers of the occupied region have also killed an additional 8, while, four Israelis have also been killed in attacks by the Palestinians, as per media reports.
