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Israel and the Israel-Hamas war

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  • 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
  • An apartment is seen damaged after a Russian attack on residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025.
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    Trump administration rushes to emulate Gaza plan in new push for Ukraine Deal
  • 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 (L) 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 Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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    Jets, chips and a clean slate: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince got almost everything he wanted from Trump
  • Destroyed buildings in Gaza City on Wednesday.
    Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters
    Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 32 Palestinians, as Hamas warns of ‘dangerous escalation’
  • Released Israeli hostage Bar Kupershtein waves to supporters as he returns to his home in the city of Holon, Israel, after completing hospitalization and treatment following his release from captivity, on November 2.
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    ‘In your head, you count every day’: Ex-October 7 hostage describes 2 years in captivity
  • Kamran Hekmati is seen in this undated photo.
    Courtesy Hekmati family
    An American man went to Israel 13 years ago. He is now imprisoned in Iran
  • Kamal Kharrazi, foreign policy adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is interviewed by CNN's Fred Pleitgen on Tuesday.
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    Exclusive: Iran open to resuming nuclear talks with the US but won’t shift its conditions, supreme leader’s adviser says
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  • 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)
    Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Bittersweet moments of joy as Gaza celebrates high school graduations without schools
    Nov 15, 2025
  • 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)
    Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Heavy rainfall floods the camps of displaced Palestinians in Gaza
    Nov 14, 2025
  • 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
    Nov 14, 2025
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    Israel identifies deceased hostage returned by Hamas as Manny Godard
    Nov 14, 2025
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    Video Israel strikes Lebanon’s capital for first time in months 1:31
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    Video ‘An act of hope’: Israeli comedian uses laughter to bridge divide with Palestinians 11:02
    Nov 20, 2025
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    Video Video shows aftermath of deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza 2:12
    Nov 20, 2025
  • <p>Some of the newly freed Israeli hostages who were released from Gaza under the US-brokered ceasefire plan will meet President Donald Trump at the White House this week. Bar Kupershtein spent more than two years in Hamas captivity and says he endured beatings and starvation, but he never stopped believing he would return home. CNN's Oren Lieberman sat down with Kupershtein before his flight to Washington.</p>
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    Nov 19, 2025

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