Israel awaiting remains from Gaza as soldiers kill 4 Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank

DEIR AL-BALAH Gaza Strip AP Israeli fire killed two Palestinians in Gaza and two suspected Palestinian attackers in the West Bank on Tuesday as Israel s establishment prepared to receive certain of the last hostage remains from militants in Gaza The return is a key part of a ceasefire between the militant group and Israel s regime In a announcement Tuesday Israel s Prime Minister s Office revealed it was expecting to receive the remains from the Red Cross which later would be taken to forensics testing to confirm that they were the remains of hostages It was not straightaway clear if they had already been transferred to the Red Cross The remains are expected to be of the final two hostages taken by Palestinian militants in their Oct attack that triggered the war The Tuesday killings were the latest burst of violence in the Palestinian territories which has fueled concerns that unrest could spill over and undermine the fragile truce in Gaza Palestinians killed in Gaza An Israeli drone strike killed a videographer in southern Gaza on Tuesday executives at Nasser Hospital which received the body disclosed Momahed Wadi was killed in the southern city of Khan Younis the hospital revealed Wadi owned a drone photography company that once specialized on filming happy occasions like weddings The studio was destroyed by the Israeli military in April it announced on its Facebook page Wadi used to post on social media drone footage that showcased the destruction of Gaza as well as tent shelters housing displaced Palestinians The conflict in Gaza has had a heavy toll on Palestinian journalists working on the front lines Also Tuesday a man in Gaza was fatally shot near the eastern side of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza according to Al-Awda Hospital The Gaza Strength Ministry noted that more than Palestinians have been killed across the territory since a ceasefire on Oct stopped the Israel-Hamas war Israel s military did not instantly comment on either deaths but has commented that killings have often been in response to firing at their forces by militants Both Hamas and Israel have accused the other of emerging the terms of the ceasefire The war began with the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel in which around people were killed and more than others were taken hostage Almost all of the hostages or their remains have been returned in ceasefires or other deals Gaza s Soundness Ministry says the Palestinian toll has topped The ministry operates under the Hamas-run cabinet It is staffed by therapeutic professionals and maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by the international locality Violence flares in the West Bank At the same time Israel s military has pushed forward its operations in the occupied West Bank On Tuesday morning the military revealed troops shot and killed a suspect who stabbed two soldiers as they were confronting him near Ateret an Israeli settlement north of Ramallah in central West Bank It reported the affair was under review The Palestinian Soundness Ministry commented Israeli forces killed an -year-old Palestinian north of Ramallah but it wasn t right away clear if it was the same development Israel s Mada rescue facility declared two soldiers were lightly wounded In the southern West Bank the army announced it fatally shot a Palestinian who had earlier carried out a car-ramming attack that wounded a soldier The army declared the man attempted to flee as they tried to arrest him near the city of Hebron while endangering the soldiers and he was shot dead The Palestinian Fitness Ministry identified the suspect as a -year-old resident of Hebron In a comment late Monday Hamas celebrated the ramming attack near Hebron saying that it came in the context of the legitimate response of our people to Israel s ongoing raids in the West Bank The militant group didn t claim the attack The Israeli army has stepped up its sessions in the West Bank since Hamas attack triggered the war in Gaza Israel says the offensive is aimed at rooting out militants But Palestinians say scores of stone throwers protesters and uninvolved civilians have been killed In modern weeks Israeli settlers have stepped up attacks on Palestinian civilians Palestinian assailants killed an Israeli man in a stabbing and car ramming attack last month Also Tuesday Israel s military launched another round of strikes on southern Lebanon which has become an almost daily occurrence as Israel accuses the militant group Hezbollah of failing to disarm following a U S -brokered ceasefire last year that halted two months of war Israel demolishes family homes of accused assailants in West Bank On Tuesday Israeli forces demolished the family home of Abdul Karim Sanoubar a suspected Palestinian militant right now in detention who has been accused by Israel of planting bombs on buses in central Israel last February Troops evacuated homes around the building in the city of Nablus and a plume of smoke billowed out after the home was destroyed Israel says home demolitions are meant to deter future attackers but critics say they amount to collective punishment against the families of assailants and only exacerbate tensions with Palestinians The military reported it demolished Karim Sanoubar s family s home due to the irregular nature of the planned attack and with the backing of the legal personnel No one was killed by the explosives which were never detonated according to the military After they demolished the building in Nablus Israeli troops traveled to the town of Aqabah in the West Bank to demolish another house of a man accused of carrying out a shooting attack in which one person was killed the military declared Magdy released from Cairo and Janetsky from Jerusalem Find more of AP s Israel-Hamas coverage at https apnews com hub israel-hamas-war Source