Fighting between Israel and Hamas intensifies, with dozens dead

The fighting between Israel and Hamas escalated on Tuesday to levels not seen since the 50-day war in the summer of 2014. An Israeli airstrike targeting an apartment building in Gaza City left three senior members of the Islamic Jihad militant group dead, as well as 10 children and a woman, The Associated Press reports. Another airstrike destroyed a 12-story building that housed Hamas offices; because warning shots were fired, civilians were able to flee, and no casualties have been reported. AP...