TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — As Israeli strikes in far-off Qatar and Yemen sparked regional tensions this week, violence surged in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem.

A shooting attack at a Jerusalem bus stop killed six Israelis, and another two were stabbed and wounded in a separate incident. Israeli forces in the West Bank shot three 14-year-old Palestinians, killing two of them, and detained hundreds in a separate raid after an explosive device struck an armored vehicle, lightly wounding two soldiers.

They were the latest violent ripples from the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip — where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed — and the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict that began decades earlier.

Israel captured east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza in

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