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Israel and the Israel-Hamas war

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  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks to President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in April 2025.
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    Trump administration offers rare muted response on new sanctions against Israel
  • Apart from a few residential block and an airbase, Perim Island is mostly barren sand rock. The Yemeni Island in Bab Al-Mandab Strait is the new geopolitical pinch-point in the Iran war.
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    Exclusive: This small island off Yemen is now a strategic prize in the widening Iran war
  • A man carries his child through a new settlement of Maale Arugot during an inauguration ceremony in Gush Etzion, in the occupied West Bank on September 2, 2026.
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    UK, France and Canada sanction Israeli settlements in West Bank as Britain accuses settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing’
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19.
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    Netanyahu faces backlash over report he was warned of Hamas attack days before October 7
  • Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries leaves a press conference in the US Capitol on August 31.
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    Democrats might win in the midterms — but a whole new set of problems await
  • Vice President JD Vance speaks during a rally on August 31, 2026 in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The event featured multiple speakers who represent Michigan's Republican ticket for the 2026 election. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)
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    JD Vance confronts Jewish GOP skeptics ahead of a potential 2028 run
  • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - AUGUST 24: Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, speaks during a press conference at the Etzel Museum following the discovery of the Altalena ship after 78 years at bottom of the Mediterranean sea on August 24, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The wreckage of the ship Altalena has been found fully intact at a depth of 503 metres off the coast of Israel. She was a decommissioned US Navy ship purchased by the Irgun paramilitary group that arrived during Israel's War of Independence carrying 930 Jewish immigrants and a large cargo of weapons. A dispute erupted when Irgun leader Menachem Begin demanded a portion of the arms be reserved for his units, which Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion refused, viewing it as a threat to a centralised state military. On Ben-Gurion's orders, the newly formed Israel Defense Forces shelled the ship off the Tel Aviv beach, causing an explosion that killed 16 Irgun fighters and 3 IDF soldiers before the ruined hull was later towed out and sunk. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
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    Israel’s far-right competes for votes with increasingly extreme visions
  • NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- AUGUST 29: Muslim, Sikh, and Christian faith groups, advocacy organisations, and unprivileged-caste organisations organised a demonstration to protest a prominent Hindu nationalist and chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohan Bhagwat, during his Madison Square Garden speech on Saturday, August 29, 2026, in New York City, U.S. Some activists at the protest confronted Brad Lander, the Democratic Party nominee for New York's 10th congressional district, who defeated incumbent representative Dan Goldman in the primary, by claiming he is a Zionist. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander faces anti-Israel hecklers at New York protest
  • Abdul El-Sayed speaks to reporters at the Michigan Democratic Party's 2026 convention in Lansing on August 29.
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    El-Sayed apologizes to Jewish Democrats as he seeks to bridge party divides
  • Former Israeli hostage Evyatar David pictured on October 26, 2025, days after his release from captivity in Gaza. REUTERS/Nir Elias
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    ‘I wake up with nightmares’: Ex-hostage who dug his own grave describes cruelty of Hamas captivity
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  • US Senate candidates from Michigan, Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, left, and Republican nominee Mike Rogers.
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    Abdul El-Sayed’s Republican opponent directly pitches Democrats, hoping to capitalize after divisive primary
    Aug 7, 2026
  • The brother of slain Palestinian activist Odeh Hathalin touches a poster calling for accountability following his killing in the occupied West Bank last year.
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    Israel charges settler over killing of Palestinian activist in West Bank in rare prosecution
    Aug 6, 2026
  • Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed arrives to a press conference in front of the Spirit of Detroit statue on Wednesday.
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    ‘We have 13 weeks’: A ruptured Democratic Party now tries to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed
    Aug 6, 2026
  • Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens
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    El-Sayed scores marquee victory for progressives, and other takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries
    Aug 5, 2026
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    Video ‘No doubt’ Netanyahu warned ahead of October 7th attacks, claims former Israeli PM 18:36
    Sep 10, 2026
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    Video The Odds: Israel’s Image 4:05
    Sep 9, 2026
  • US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee is greeted by members of the local municipality as he arrives to visit the home of an Palestinian-American resident who has previously been twice attacked and faces ongoing harassment from Israeli settlers, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, about 23 kilometers (14 miles) northeast of Ramallah, where a large proportion of the town's residents hold dual nationality on September 5, 2026. Attacks by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian village of Qusra drew unusually strong criticism from the US ambassador on September 3, 2026, while Britain's foreign secretary vowed a tough response to "appalling" violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians. (Photo by John Wessels / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Video US Ambassador to Israel meets Palestinian-Americans facing settler attacks 2:26
    Sep 5, 2026
  • A ceasefire has been in effect between Israel and Hezbollah, but Israeli strikes continue in southern Lebanon on a daily basis.
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    Video CNN gets rare look at Israeli-occupied south Lebanon 8:02
    Sep 3, 2026

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