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  • Palestinians carrying bags return from a food distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation near the Netsarim corridor in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2025.
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    Controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to close aid effort
  • People gather looking at a residential building following an Israeli military strike in Beirut's southern suburbs.
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    Israel says Hezbollah chief of staff killed in first strike on Beirut in months
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    At least one Israeli killed and three injured after attack at West Bank junction
  • Israeli settlers set fire to multiple cars in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
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    Israeli settlers torch scrapyard in West Bank arson attack as Netanyahu calls meeting on rising extremist violence
  • Israeli soldiers speak with a Palestinian woman as she leaves her home for safety during a raid by the army in the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on February 11, 2025. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP) (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Israel’s forced expulsion of Palestinians from West Bank refugee camps amounts to war crimes, HRW alleges
  • WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 18: U.S. President Donald Trump (R) welcomes Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia during an arrival ceremony at the White House on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is hosting the crown prince for meetings aimed at strengthening economic and defense ties, including the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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    Why Trump’s plan to sell F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia is so controversial
  • 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
  • A view of Sde Teiman military detention camp in Israel's Negev desert near the Gaza Strip, on January 10, 2025.
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    At least 98 Palestinians died in Israeli prisons in two years, Israeli human rights group finds
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  • Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh holds a press conference in Tehran on May 9, 2022.
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    Iran nuclear sites left ruined in US and Israeli strikes but program ‘intact,’ deputy foreign minister tells CNN
  • Thousands of Israelis gather Saturday in Tel Aviv, Israel, to demand an official investigation into the events of October 7, 2023.
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    The war in Gaza is over, but the fight in Israel for accountability has barely begun
  • 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
  • SOUTHERN ISRAEL, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 29: A view over the Gaza Strip as seen from a position on the Israeli side of the border on October 29, 2025 in Southern Israel, Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered "immediate, powerful" strikes on Gaza Tuesday, after his office accused Hamas of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement for returning remains that Israel says do not belong to any of the 13 unaccounted for hostages. The announcement of strikes followed reports of fighting in Rafah near the "yellow line" demarcating territory under IDF control in Gaza, according to the US-brokered ceasefire agreement that came into affect on October 10. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Weeks into the Gaza ceasefire, scores of Hamas fighters remain stuck in tunnels under Gaza
  • GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 13: Palestinian student Iman Lulu celebrates with her family in Gaza City, Gaza after passing the high school final exams, which were held for the first time in two years despite the ongoing Israeli attacks that destroyed schools and displaced thousands of families across the Gaza, on November 13, 2025. (Photo by Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Bittersweet moments of joy as Gaza celebrates high school graduations without schools
  • 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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  • Trump and Netanyahu pictured at the White House earlier this year.
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    Trump pens letter asking Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu in corruption trial
  • Syria’s jihadist-turned-president caps extraordinary transformation with White House visit
  • Turkish prosecutor seeks 2,000 years for jailed opposition mayor of Istanbul
  • Controversial death penalty and foreign media bills clear first reading in Israel’s parliament
  • 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
  • Israeli military launches strikes across southern Lebanon against what it says are Hezbollah targets
  • Israel says hostage body returned from Gaza belongs to Tanzanian student as it probes fate of longest-held captive
  • Newly freed Israeli hostage says he was sexually assaulted in captivity
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