The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops. The violence came amid fears of an all-out regional war following the previous week's killings of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas' top political leader in Iran.
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily strikes for the past 10 months during the war in Gaza.
Leaders in Egypt and Turkey say they are exhausting all avenues possible to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from becoming a wider regional conflict. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet over the weekend that Israel is already in a "multi-front war" with Iran and its proxies.
The head of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Israel on Monday over the assassination of Haniyeh, warning that Israel was "digging its own grave" with its actions against Hamas. Israel's defense minister says the military is ready for a "swift transition to offense."
Palestinian officials say five Palestinians were killed, including four teenagers, and another seven were wounded by Israeli fire during military raids in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday that four people, including two 19-year-olds and a 14-year-old, were killed in an overnight raid in the village of Aqaaba in the northern West Bank. It said an 18-year-old was killed in a separate raid in Jenin — a frequent flashpoint — where the Islamic Jihad militant group reported heavy fighting with the army.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Israel has carried out near-daily military raids across the West Bank since Hamas' Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza triggered the ongoing war there. Palestinians from the West Bank have also carried out a number of attacks on Israelis.
The Health Ministry says over 600 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since the start of the war. Most were killed during military arrest raids and violent protests.