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Israeli forces kill five gunmen during raid on refugee camp in occupied West Bank
Palestinian protesters burn tyres to block a road leading into Jericho in the occupied West Bank, on February 6, 2023, following a raid in town by Israeli forces. - Israeli forces on February 6 killed five alleged Palestinian gunmen in a raid in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli official said, after a days-long search for suspects in a shooting near Jericho. the raid came amid a spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence and after days of what Jericho authorities have described as a "siege" on the city since the shooting attack late last month. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel, Gaza militants exchange fire amid soaring tensions in region
Fire and smoke rise above buildings in Gaza City as Israel launched air strikes on the Palestinian enclave early on Febrauary 2, 2023 - Israel conducted air strikes on the central Gaza Strip hours after intercepting a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory, according to AFP journalists and witnesses on February 2, 2023. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iran blames Israel for Isfahan drone attack, vows revenge
Eyewitness footage shows what is said to be the moment of an explosion at a military industry factory in Isfahan, Iran, January 29, 2023, in this still image obtained from a video. Pool via WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IRAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN IRAN. NO USE VOA PERSIAN. NO USE BBC PERSIAN. NO USE MANOTO. NO USE IRAN INTERNATIONAL
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Blinken reaffirms need for two-state solution after talks with Netanyahu
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give a joint press conference, on January 30, 2023 in Jerusalem. (Photo by DEBBIE HILL / POOL / AFP) (Photo by DEBBIE HILL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israel prepares to demolish home of Palestinian gunman
Mourners attend the funeral of Israeli couple Eli Mizrahi and his wife, Natalie, victims of a shooting attack Friday in east Jerusalem, at the cemetery in Beit Shemesh, Israel, early Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. On Friday a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue, killing the couple and another five people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before he was shot and killed by police, officials say. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis since 2008 and raised the likelihood of more bloodshed. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Iran reports drone attack on defence facility
This is a locator map for Iran with its capital, Tehran. (AP Photo)
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Israel to ‘strengthen’ settlements after pair of shootings in Jerusalem
Israeli police secure the site of a shooting attack near a synagogue in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing seven people, including a 70-year-old woman, and wounding three others before police shot and killed him, officials said. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Gunman kills 7 near Jerusalem synagogue, Israeli medics say
People run as smoke rises behind amid clashes with Israeli troops, near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 26, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Israel, Gaza fighters trade fire after deadly West Bank raid
An ambulance drives past an Israeli military vehicle as smoke rises from objects set on fire by Palestinian demonstrators, in the ocupied-West Bank city of Jenin, on January 26, 2023. - An Israeli raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp today killed four Palestinians including an elderly woman, Palestinian officials said, also accusing the army of using tear gas inside a hospital.Israel's army declined to comment when asked by AFP about the health minister's tear gas allegation. (Photo by Zain Jaafar / AFP) (Photo by ZAIN JAAFAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli military kills Palestinian teacher, militant in raid
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Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank raid, medics say
Israeli soldiers keep guard at the scene of a security incident near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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Nighttime Israeli arrests haunt Palestinian children, families
Yousef Mesheh, 15, holds a portrait of his brother, Wael in the bedroom where they were sleeping when Israeli forces stormed into their home at 3.a.m., in the Balata Refugee Camp in the northern West Bank, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. They were both arrested, but Wael is still imprisoned. A report to be released next Monday by Israeli human rights organization HaMoked found that the Israeli military arrested and interrogated hundreds of Palestinian teenagers in 2022 in the occupied West Bank, without ever issuing a summons or notifying their families.(AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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Israel revokes Palestinian FM’s travel permit over UN move
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki speaks during a press conference at the International Criminal Court on Tuesday May 22, 2018. The Palestinian foreign minister asked the International Criminal Court on Tuesday to open an “immediate investigation” into alleged Israeli “crimes” committed against the Palestinian people. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)
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Israel frees one of longest-serving Palestinian prisoners after 40 years
Longest serving Palestinian prisoner, Karim Younis, is welcomed at his village, after he was freed from Israeli jail earlier today, in Ara, Israel January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Ammar Awad TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Israel demolishes homes in two West Bank villages set for eviction
Head of the European Unions mission to the West Bank and Gaza Sven von Burgsdorff poses for pictures with children as he visits with a delegation the site of a Palestinian school which was demolished by Israeli authorities in the village of Esfay, in the Masafer Yatta area in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on December 19, 2022. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP) (Photo by HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ultranationalist Israeli minister visits flashpoint Jerusalem holy site for first time since taking office
Israeli police secure the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Itamar Ben-Gvir, an ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister, visited the flashpoint Jerusalem holy site Tuesday for the first time since taking office in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new far-right government last week. The visit is seen by Palestinians as a provocation. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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Israeli army kills two Palestinians in West Bank confrontation
People inspect the rubble of a house that was demolished by Israeli soldiers, in the village of Kafr Dan in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on January 2, 2023. - The Israeli army killed two Palestinians in a West Bank raid on Monday as it demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of killing an Israeli soldier, Palestinian officials said. Israeli soldiers had entered the village of Kafr Dan "in order to demolish the residences of the assailants who were involved in the shooting adjacent to the Gilboa (Jalame) Crossing, in which Major Bar Falah was killed," Israel's military said. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli missile strikes put Damascus airport out of service
A Cham Wings Airlines Airbus A320-211 is pictured at the Syria's Aleppo airport after flights were diverted from Damascus aiport following an Israeli strike last week, on June 15, 2022. - Flights were halted at Damascus International Airport after an Israeli strike last week caused "sizeable damage" to its only operational runway, authorities said. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN asks World Court to give opinion on Israel’s occupation
FILE PHOTO: General view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands December 11, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Israel indicts soldiers for trying to bomb Palestinian home
FILE - Members of the Israeli Druze minority mourn around the body of Tiran Fero, 17, during his funeral in Daliyat al-Carmel, Israel, on Nov. 24, 2022. Israel’s military says its prosecutor has filed indictments against two soldiers who allegedly hurled an explosive device at a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank last month. The indictment announced Thursday, Dec. 29, said the two soldiers acted out of revenge for the kidnapping of the body of an Israeli schoolboy in the flashpoint West Bank city of Jenin on Nov. 22. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
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Israeli military acknowledges troops fatally shot Palestinian girl during operation in West Bank
Mourners react as they attend the funeral of Palestinian Jana Zakarna in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
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Israeli army kills teen girl in West Bank raid, Palestinian hospital says
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Israeli aircraft hit Gaza after rocket fire
A rocket is fired from the Gaza Strip, December 4, 2022. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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Israeli far right’s Itamar Ben-Gvir to be police minister in coalition deal
Israeli designate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and right-wing Knesset member Itamar Ben Gvir during the swearing-in ceremony for the new Israeli parliament the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. Abir Sultan/Pool via REUTERS REFILE - CORRECTING INFORMATION
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Explosion near Syrian capital kills Iranian colonel: report
File - People walk under Palestinian flags in Yarmouk camp in Damascus Syria that has seen heavy fighting during the civil war, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. A trickle of residents has returned to Yarmouk, the large Palestinian refugee camp-turned-Damascus neighborhood that was devastated in the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
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Canadian-Israeli teen killed as twin blasts shake Jerusalem, wounding 18
Mourners carry the body of 16-year-old Aryeh Shechopek who was killed in a suspected Palestinian bomb attack, at his funeral in Jerusalem November 23, 2022. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
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Israeli air strikes on Syria kill four soldiers, injures one
File - Workers clean up destruction h Yarmouk camp in Damascus Syria that has seen heavy fighting during the civil war, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. A trickle of residents has returned to Yarmouk, the large Palestinian refugee camp-turned-Damascus neighborhood that was devastated in the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
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Israeli troops raid gunmen’s hideout; five Palestinians killed
A view shows the damaged house of Palestinian group Lions' Den member Wadee Al-Houh, which was targeted during a raid by Israeli security forces, in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Raneen Sawafta
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Russia’s Iranian drones complicate Israel’s balancing act
FILE - Firefighters work after a drone attack on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Oct. 17, 2022. The Iranian-made drones that Russia sent slamming into central Kyiv this week have produced hand-wringing and consternation in Israel, complicating the country’s balancing act between Russia and the West. (AP Photo/Roman Hrytsyna)
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Deadly clashes in West Bank, shooting attack in Jerusalem
An Israeli border police officer walks at the scene of a shooting attack near the Shuafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. Israeli police say armed assailants have opened fire at an Israeli military checkpoint in east Jerusalem, seriously wounding at least two people. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Al Jazeera journalist’s killing referred to ICC in complaint
FILE - Students carry a mock coffin as they hold a symbolic funeral for slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, at al-Azhar University in Mughraqa, central Gaza Strip, Monday, May 16, 2022. The family of a Palestinian-American reporter Abu Akleh, killed while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank lashed out at President Joe Biden in a letter released Friday, July 8, 2022 over his administration's response to her death. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
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Israeli air raids on airport amount to a ‘war crime,’ Syria’s foreign ministry says
This satellite photo released by Planet Labs PBC shows the damage after an Israeli strike targeted the Aleppo International Airport, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. An Israeli attack targeting a Syrian airport tore a hole in the runway and also damaged a nearby piece of tarmac and structure on the military side of the airfield, satellite photos analyzed Friday by The Associated Press showed. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
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Israeli air attack damages Syria’s Aleppo airport runway, takes it out of service
A Cham Wings Airlines Airbus A320-211 is pictured at the Syria's Aleppo airport after flights were diverted from Damascus aiport following an Israeli strike last week, on June 15, 2022. - Flights were halted at Damascus International Airport after an Israeli strike last week caused "sizeable damage" to its only operational runway, authorities said. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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‘High probability’ soldier killed reporter, Israeli army says
FILE PHOTO: Palestinians sit in front of a mural depicting the slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ahead of the visit of U.S. President Joe Biden at Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank July 13, 2022. REUTERS\Mussa Qawasma
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Hamas authorities execute five Palestinians in first since 2017
FILE PHOTO: General view of Gaza city May 29, 2022. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File Photo
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Israel’s premier urges West to reject Iran nuclear deal
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks about Iran at a security briefing for the foreign press at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. Lapid on Wednesday called on U.S. President Joe Biden and Western powers to call off an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, saying that they are letting Tehran manipulate the terms and that an agreement would reward Israel's enemies. He called the emerging agreement a “bad deal” and suggested that Biden has failed to honor red lines he had previously promised to set. (Debbie Hill/Pool via AP)