Pregnant Israeli woman killed on way to give birth in West Bank shooting attack

Violence in the West Bank escalated when the war in Gaza erupted with Hamas’s October 7 2023 attack on southern Israel (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

A pregnant Israeli woman was fatally shot as she was being driven to hospital in the occupied West Bank to give birth.

Tzeela Gez, who was nine months pregnant, was in a car driven by her husband when they were targeted by a Palestinian attacker late on Wednesday.