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  • 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
  • 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 says hostage body returned from Gaza belongs to Tanzanian student as it probes fate of longest-held captive
  • Israeli soldiers accompany Rom Braslavski, formerly held hostage in Gaza since October 2023 by Palestinian militants, upon his arrival at the Sheba Tel-HaShomer Medical Centre in Ramat Gan on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Newly freed Israeli hostage says he was sexually assaulted in captivity
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    Hostage remains handed over Tuesday are those of dual US-Israeli citizen Itay Chen, Israel says
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    Turkish court sentences hotel owner and 10 others to life for deadly fire that killed 78
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    Western intelligence says Iran is rearming despite UN sanctions, with China’s help
  • 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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  • 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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    Netanyahu says Hamas violated Gaza ceasefire by returning remains not linked to missing hostages
  • 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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  • 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
  • Hostage families and supporters gather in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square on Saturday to demand the immediate release of the bodies of the deceased hostages.
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    Twelfth deceased hostage identified after 2 returned to Israel overnight, kibbutz says
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  • Houthi fighters march outside Sanaa, Yemen on Jan. 22, 2024.
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    Yemen’s Houthi rebels detain 20 UN employees and confiscate equipment
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  • Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, speaks at the weekly 'Bring Them Home' rally in Hostage Square Hostages Square on October 11, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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    Fury grows in Israel over delayed release of deceased hostages
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