Israel Launches Strikes in Lebanon and Gaza in Response to Attacks.

Two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother critically injured in a shooting attack in the West Bank, which Israel is investigating as a terrorist attack. This comes after Israel carried out airstrikes in Lebanon and Gaza in retaliation for rockets fired from southern Lebanon and Gaza toward Israel. Crowds of worshipers attended Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem amid high tensions. Palestinian militant group Hamas issued a statement celebrating the shooting on the West Bank and warned Israel against continuing its aggression against Palestinians and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The latest exchange of rocket fire is among the most serious flare-ups of violence in the region since the month-long war of 2006.