Israel launched its largest airstrike targeting the West Bank since the start of the war, killing 18 Palestinians, including a local Hamas leader. While the Israel Defense Forces have been locked in conflict in Gaza and Lebanon,

Relatives say an Israeli airstrike on a West Bank cafe that the military said targeted Palestinian militants also killed a family of four, including two young children.

According to Israeli sources, at least 12 of the 18 people killed in an airstrike on the West Bank were said to have been Palestinian extremists. Ten of them belonged to Hamas and two to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ),