To spend a rush hour these days at any of the traffic-snarled checkpoints outside Palestinian cities in the West Bank is to hear of the endless problems they have brought — families divided, money lost,

As Israel presses ahead with a massive military operation targeting militants in the West Bank, it’s relying on tactics used in the war in Gaza. The result for Palestinians is a rising level of destruction and displacement.

Israeli forces in Nur Shams shot a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant and whose unborn child did not survive, the Palestinian health ministry said.