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  • 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
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    Iran confirms seizure of tanker carrying petrochemical cargo
  • 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
  • GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 14: Palestinians, whose homes were destroyed during Israel's two-year attacks, have hard times after their makeshift tents were flooded with the intense rain in Gaza City, Gaza on November 14, 2025. The onset of cold weather and rainfall has made living conditions even more difficult for residents living in makeshift tents. (Photo by Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza
  • 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
  • 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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    Hannibal Gadhafi, son of late Libyan leader Moammar, released by Lebanon after 10 years in detention
  • 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
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  • 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
  • A Hamas militant guards an area where they search for the bodies of hostages with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza City, on Wednesday.
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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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  • 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
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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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