An Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza has killed five people, according to a senior Palestinian health official. An aid worker says three of the people killed were employees

Israel was pressing forward with an operation in Gaza to combat what it described as a Hamas resurgence. In Lebanon, an uneasy cease-fire appeared to be largely holding.

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Hussam al-Masri CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 26 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said, as forces stepped up their bombardment of central areas and tanks pushed deeper into the north and south of the enclave.

The bodies of two girls and a 50-year-old woman were taken to a hospital where a doctor confirmed that they died from suffocation.

Three Palestinians were crushed to death in a crowd at a Gaza Strip bakery amid a worsening food crisis. Israel strikes in Lebanon amid cease-fire.

Two children and a woman have been crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory