Batoul Bsharat was playing with her eight-year-old brother Reda in their village in the occupied West Bank.It meant so much to me," the 10-year-old said as she sat on the concrete ledge outside the family home in the northern village of Tammun where they had been playing on Wednesday.

Violence has escalated in the occupied territory over the last year and a half, as Israel conducts raids targeting armed fighters with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Palestinian officials said two children were among three people killed in an Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank on Wednesday which the military said targeted militants.Israeli forces carry out frequent raids on Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank,

Israel has killed three Palestinians, including two children, in an air strike in the occupied West Bank town of Tammun on Wednesday. Palestinian sources said the three victims of the attack near the city of Tubas in the north of the occupied territory were cousins.