According to the report from Reuters, the protracted conflict, spanning over three months, has not only intensified violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank but has also sent shockwaves through the broader Middle East.
In a disturbing development on Monday, the conflict reached deeper into Israel as Palestinians executed coordinated car-ramming attacks in the central town of Raanana.
The assailants, hailing from the same family in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, left one woman dead and 12 others injured. Among the injured were two French nationals, as confirmed by authorities.
Israeli police disclosed that at least one of the vehicles used in the attacks had been stolen. Sami Abu Zuhri, head of Hamas' political unit in exile, connected these incidents to what he termed Israeli "crimes," presenting them as evidence of the conflict's expansion.
Simultaneously, violence surged in the West Bank, governed by the internationally-recognized Palestinian Authority. The health ministry reported 351 casualties as Israel conducted raids aimed at rooting out militants.
On Monday, clashes in Dora near Hebron resulted in the deaths of a man and a woman due to Israeli gunfire, triggered by stone-throwing confrontations following Israeli forces' town raid.
Additionally, a Palestinian security officer, Mahmoud Abdullah Khalifa, lost his life near the West Bank town of Tulkarm.
Expanding the geographical scope of the conflict, Houthi fighters, who exert control over much of Yemen, intensified attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
Claiming links to Israel, they asserted solidarity with Gaza. On Monday, a U.S.-owned vessel carrying steel products was damaged by an anti-ship ballistic missile south of the Yemeni port of Aden.
Finally, the Houthis cited this action as an expansion of their targets in response to U.S. and British airstrikes on their positions in Yemen.
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