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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2025.
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    Controversial death penalty and foreign media bills clear first reading in Israel’s parliament
  • Hannibal Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, attends the signing agreement ceremony between Libya's Shipping Corporation and STX Europe to build a cruise ship, in Tripoli June 30, 2010.
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  • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (not seen) and Syrian interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa (L) hold a press conference after their meeting at Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkiye on February 4, 2025.
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  • An image of Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier killed in 2014 whose body has been held in Gaza since then, is shown during a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025.
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    Israel confirms returned body belongs to soldier killed in Gaza in 2014 war
  • Red Cross convoy carrying the body of a person believed to be a deceased hostage handed over by Palestinians militants makes its way toward the border crossing with Israel, to be transferred to Israeli authorities, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Friday.
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  • Israel's Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, at the supreme court in Jerusalem Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Oren Ben Hakoon)
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  • A fire that broke out at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Bolu, Turkey, on January 21 left 78 people dead and 133 injured.
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    Turkish court sentences hotel owner and 10 others to life for deadly fire that killed 78
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  • Red Cross vehicles transport the bodies of two deceased hostages after they were handed over by Hamas militants, in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, on Thursday, October 30.
    Mahmoud Issa/Reuters
    Israel receives remains of two deceased hostages held in Gaza
  • Palestinians look out from a damaged building following an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, northern Gaza, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025.
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  • Israelis gather at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv to demand the return of the hostage bodies still held in Gaza on Sunday, October 26.
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  • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Knesset on the day Trump addresses it, in Jerusalem, on October 13.
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    Trump’s babysitting of Netanyahu puts the US in charge on Gaza
  • UN’s top court rebukes Israel over Gaza aid restrictions during war
  • Oldest hostage taken by Hamas among two deceased returned to Israel Tuesday
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  • GAZA CITY, GAZA - OCTOBER 16: El Ghussain family in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, Gaza, begins rebuilding their demolished home using stones and materials salvaged from the rubble, like many other Palestinian families trying to reconstruct their houses with limited means, following the Israeli army's withdrawal from Gaza City under the ceasefire agreement, on October 16, 2025. (Photo by Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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  • How Western sanctions on Iran have hurt the same middle class that drives reform
  • Israel identifies body of tenth hostage as a 75-year-old man as delicate truce enters second week
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