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In shift, US labels Israeli settler violence a 'terror attack'

Mourners carry the body of 19-year-old Palestinian Qusai Jamal Maatan.

'You are in a safe place': Israel prepares to embrace hostages

Hostages seized by Palestinian militants will require extensive psychological support, experts say

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'Bring them home': marching for days, families of Gaza hostages reach Jerusalem

Relatives of hostages say release efforts should be an absolute priority of Israel's campaign in Gaza

Agence France-Presse

Friends and relatives fight to keep spotlight on Israeli hostages

Agence France-Presse

Israel braces for revenge after killing Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza

A fire breaks out at an apartment following an explosion in Gaza City, Palestinian Territories on May 9, 2023. - Nine people were killed May 9, 2023 before dawn in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry of this territory under the control of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli army on alert after arrest of Islamic Jihad senior official

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Blinken meets Netanyahu, pressures Hamas to agree to cease-fire deal

Blinken Bibi

Israeli leftist artists, the enemy within

Likud legislator Miri Regev, a former brigadier general and political hardliner of Moroccan origin, looks out a car window during a campaign stop in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv February 25, 2015. Israel's Sephardic community, Jews of Middle Eastern descent, have traditionally been the Likud party's backbone. But political analysts say Sephardim, disproportionately poorer than Israel's Ashkenazi Jews with roots in Europe, may throw their support elsewhere in the March 17 election, angry over the high cost of

Israeli artillery fires on Gaza every 30 seconds

An Israeli soldier stands on the turret of a tank near the city of Sderot across the border with as Israel vows to destroy Hamas militants in the coastal enclave

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Day 54 of Hamas-Israel war blog: Wednesday, Nov. 29

A US Navy Martin UAV drone hovers mid-air beneath a US Navy SH-60S Seahawk helicopter, while Bahraini Coast Guard ship Deraa 13 (L), US Coast Guard cutter Maui (C), and Royal Bahrain Naval Force (RBNF) Abdulrahman Al Fadhel (R) operate on Gulf waters during joint naval exercise between US 5th Fleet Command and Bahraini forces, on October 26, 2021. - The US and Bahrain navies conducted a joint exercise at sea, launching a series of drills integrating unmanned systems into regional maritime operations. (Photo