Nearly two dozen Americans have now been killed “as a result of continued violence” tied to the Israel-Hamas war, the US State Department said Monday. “We can confirm the deaths of 23 American citizens,” State Department rep Vedant Patel said at a regular press briefing. Of the US citizens slain since Oct. 7, 21 of them had been serving in the Israel Defense Forces, and one was with the Israeli National Police, Patel noted. The recent death of 17-year-old Palestinian-American, Tawfiq Ajjaq, is the latest addition to the mounting death toll, the rep added. “We are devastated about the killing...