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  • Flames erupt from a building following an Israeli military strike in Gaza City, Sunday, September 14, 2025.
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    Israel strikes high-rises in Gaza City, ahead of cabinet meeting to discuss risk of ground operation to hostages
  • The damaged building, left, in the compound housing members of Palestinian militant group Hamas' political bureau, pictured on September 10, 2025.
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    Gulf states unite to respond to Israel’s attack on Qatar, but find few options
  • Basel Adra speaks during an event in Madrid, Spain on June 23.
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    Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker says IDF searched his house after he was attacked by settlers
  • A damaged building, following an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders, according to an Israeli official, in Doha, Qatar, September 9, 2025.
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    Inside Israel’s operation to kill Hamas leaders in Qatar
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    Satellite images reveal wide destruction in Gaza City as Israel steps up assault
  • Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani addresses a press conference at the Diwan Annex in Doha on January 15, 2025. Sheikh Mohammed said that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza starting on January 19, 2025 and a hostage and prisoner exchange after 15 months of war.
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    Qatar presses Hamas to ‘respond positively’ to US ceasefire proposal, official says
  • Israeli police officers and emergency personnel work at the scene of a shooting attack in Jerusalem on Monday, September 8.
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    At least 6 killed in shooting at Jerusalem bus stop, Israeli officials say, in city’s deadliest attack in 2 years
  • Spain's' Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday called Israel's military action in Gaza an "extermination of a defenseless people."
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    Spain intensifies criticism of Israeli offensive in Gaza. Israel responds with travel bans
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  • President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he signs executive orders during a press availability in the Oval Office of the White House on September 5, 2025.
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    Trump says some hostages may have ‘recently died’ in Gaza, as Israel calls on Palestinians to evacuate enclave’s largest city
  • Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and members of the cabinet stand as they attend a cabinet session to discuss the army's plan to disarm Hezbollah, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Lebanon, September 5, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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    ‘Pivotal moment’ for Lebanon as cabinet backs army plan to disarm Hezbollah amid growing US pressure
  • Israeli troops walk during a weekly settlers' tour in Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 23, 2025. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma
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    UAE warns Israel’s West Bank annexation would cross ‘red line’ and end regional integration efforts
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    Here are the countries that have recognized a Palestinian state
  • Equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for Reuters, lies at the site where he was killed, along with other journalists and people, in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, in this still image taken from video, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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    Global media outlets unite to protest Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza
  • Mother of Khaled Al-Shinbari, a Palestinian teenager who was killed in Israeli fire on Wednesday while seeking aid in northern Gaza, according to medics, holds his shoes, while her sister and daughter (L) react during Khaled's funeral,at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, August 28, 2025.
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    Israel to halt airdrops ahead of Gaza City offensive as hostage families lash out at Netanyahu
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  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sabina Taasa in a video to remember October 7.
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    Israel releases clip of October 7 attack as it faces international condemnation over Gaza City assault
  • Israel declares Gaza City a ‘dangerous combat zone’ as it recovers remains of two hostages
  • France, Germany and UK begin process of reimposing UN sanctions on Iran over nuclear program
  • UN votes to end its peacekeeping force in Lebanon next year after nearly 5 decades
  • People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas and calling for the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025.
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    Israeli protesters push harder for hostage deal as divide with Netanyahu deepens
  • UN demands ‘accountability’ over Gaza hospital attack as Israel releases initial inquiry findings
  • Outrage after Israel kills five journalists in ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital
  • The hill where the idea of a Palestinian state may die
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