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  • SALFIT, WEST BANK - NOVEMBER 13: Israeli forces surround the area around the al-Hajj Hamid Mosque, which had been set on fire by settler Israelis in the city of Selfit in the West Bank on November 13, 2025. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Israeli settlers torch mosque and spray graffiti in latest West Bank attack
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  • Palestinians inspect parts of a burnt house after an Israeli settlers attack in the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on November 11, 2025. Violence in the West Bank has soared since the war in Gaza broke out in October 2023. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Dozens of Israeli settlers launch arson attack in West Bank as attacks against Palestinians surge
  • Yamen's dream is to become an artist. While living in his hospital room in Jerusalem for the past two years, he's been painting colorful illustrations that remind him of his home in Gaza.
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    ‘A death sentence for my son’: Israel plans to deport sick Palestinians back to Gaza, patients and doctors say
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    Trump pens letter asking Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu in corruption trial
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a joint news conference with U.S. President Donald Trump in the State Dining Room at the White House on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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    Turkey issues ‘genocide’ arrest warrants against Netanyahu and other Israeli officials
  • Umm Shukry has tended to her olive trees for ten years. This olive harvest, she was prevented from accessing her land due to settler attacks.
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    Savage beatings and dying trees: How West Bank settler violence is impacting Palestinians’ olive harvest
  • Lebanese soldiers and local residents stand at the site of an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Toura on Thursday, November 6.
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    Israeli military launches strikes across southern Lebanon against what it says are Hezbollah targets
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  • U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney talks with members of the army's 3rd Armored Division in Southern Iraq on Tuesday afternoon, May 7, 1991. Cheney said the troops would be on the move to a different location and he hopes to have them home soon.  (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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  • GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 4: An aerial view of the Gaza Port, where many displaced families continue to live in tents they set up along, following Israel's two-year-long attacks on the Gaza Strip on November 4, 2025. Once a popular tourist spot, Gaza Port and its coastline have now become shelters for Palestinians whose homes were destroyed. (Photo by Mohammed Eslayeh/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Trump administration advancing UN resolution for Gaza security force, source says
  • 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 leaked video, a frantic search, and the top military lawyer: What to know about the scandal rocking Israel
  • Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies of three people believed to be deceased hostages handed over by Hamas make their way toward the border crossing with Israel, to be transferred to Israeli authorities, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.
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    Israel receives remains of 3 more deceased hostages held in Gaza
  • 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
  • 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.
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    Israel receives remains of two deceased hostages held in Gaza
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  • 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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    Gaza’s new normal is a truce without peace
  • Deadliest day in Gaza since ceasefire as Israel launches wave of strikes, accusing Hamas of breaching truce
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  • The remains of Arye Zalmanovich, an Israeli hostage kidnapped in the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, were returned to Israel on Tuesday.
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    Oldest hostage taken by Hamas among two deceased returned to Israel Tuesday
  • Israel identifies body of deceased hostage as Sergeant Major Tal Haimi
  • Twelfth deceased hostage identified after 2 returned to Israel overnight, kibbutz says
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