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  • Palestinians live in makeshift tents amid harsh conditions in Nuseirat, Gaza on December 28, 2025. Palestinians living in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip are struggling to carry on with their daily lives under harsh conditions amid the rubble left behind by Israeli attacks. Many displaced families, deprived of basic necessities, are trying to survive in makeshift tents and heavily damaged buildings amid cold weather conditions.
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  • Members of the Alawite community gather to protest violence against Alawites following the Homs mosque bombing, in the city of Latakia, Syria, 28 December 2025. The protesters gathered against attacks targeting the Alawite community after a bombing at the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in an Alawite neighborhood of Homs province on 26 December, in which at least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured. Syrian Alawites protest in Latakia after mosque bombing, Syria - 28 Dec 2025
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  • Israeli security forces inspect the scene where a vehicle was used by assailant in a suspected ramming and stabbing attack that killed two people in northern Israel according to Israeli authorities, in Afula, Israel December 26, 2025.
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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Defense Minister Israel Katz and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attend a discussion at the plenum in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, July 23, 2025.
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