Three U.S. Army soldiers were onboard a BlackHawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

The war began on October 7, when Hamas-led militants launched a deadly incursion into southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and abducting 250 others. Currently, more than 90 hostages remain in captivity in Gaza, with a third feared dead.

The Israeli military blew up at least 20 buildings in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday, staging controlled demolitions that thundered across the region, where troops have been battling local militants in an operation dubbed Iron Wall.

Thick clouds were seen rising from the Palestinian city where Israeli forces have been conducting a massive operation for nearly two weeks that the Israeli military says is targeted at local militants,

The explosions tore through the city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, sending plumes of smoke into the sky.