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  • Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, September 16, 2025. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
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    Live Updates Israel says Gaza City ground offensive has begun as UN commission says Israel is committing genocide
  • Palestinians struggle to get food at a community kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, July 26, 2025.
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    UN commission says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured on Monday, warned that Israel is facing a global "isolation" that could last for years.
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    Netanyahu admits Israel faces prolonged ‘isolation’ over war in Gaza
  • More than 1 in 10 Palestinians has been killed or injured since the war began, former chief of the Israeli military says. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    More than 10% of Gaza’s population has been killed or injured, former Israeli military chief says
  • 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
  • Smoke rises from an explosion, allegedly caused by an Israeli strike, in Doha, Qatar, on September 9, 2025.
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    Israel strikes Hamas leadership in Qatar in unprecedented attack. Here’s what to know
  • Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian expedition to Gaza, led by activists including Greta Thunberg, departs from the port of Barcelona, as container ships are seen in the background, Spain August 31, 2025.
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    Gaza aid flotilla says boat struck by drone at Tunisian port
  • Smoke rises after several blasts were heard in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.
    Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters
    Israel carries out strike targeting Hamas leadership in Qatar
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  • 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
  • Ramon International Airport, just outside the southern Red Sea resort city of Eilat, Israel on January 21, 2019.
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    Sirens fail as Houthi drone hits arrivals hall at Ramon Airport in southern Israel, authorities say
  • 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
  • There is a proposal being floated barring Iranian diplomats from shopping at big, members-only wholesale stores like Costco and Sam’s Club without first receiving the express permission of the State Department.
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    US considers banning Iranian diplomats from shopping at Costco during UN meeting
  • 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
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  • 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
  • Houthis storm UN buildings in Yemeni capital after Israel killed PM and other ministers
  • Israel to halt airdrops ahead of Gaza City offensive as hostage families lash out at Netanyahu
  • Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
  • Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair speaks during the 'Future Of Britain' conference at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge Hotel on July 09, 2024 in London, England.
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    Why was Tony Blair at the White House for Trump’s Gaza meeting?
  • Trump’s envoy tells Lebanese journalists not to be ‘animalistic,’ ties behavior to Middle East’s ‘problem’
  • New video reveals third strike in deadly ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital
  • Israel strikes Yemen after Houthis fire new type of missile
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