Israeli strikes kill four in operation to seize Hamas figure in Gaza: officials

Heavy Israeli bombardment killed four people in Gaza City on Tuesday, Palestinian health officials said, in what both sides described as an Israeli-backed ground operation to seize a senior Hamas figure. Eyewitnesses reported around a dozen strikes on Tuesday morning in western Gaza City, where the territory's civil defence agency said four people were killed: three children and a woman. Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed the toll given by the civil defence,…