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Before Oct. 7 Attack, Netanyahu Was Warned, Report Says. He Denies It.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would sue the newspaper Haaretz after it reported that the Emirati president had warned him Hamas was planning a major operation against Israel.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at a news conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
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Israeli Allies Ban Trade With Settlements as U.K. Cites ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

Britain, Canada and France on Tuesday announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, with Britain saying Israel had “turned a blind eye” to violence against Palestinians.

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Palestinian villagers harvesting olives in the village of Turmus Aya, with Israeli settlements in the background, northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank in 2025.
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A Glitz-Free Place Named for Trump? Welcome to the Golan Heights.

The bare-bones village of prefab homes has none of the gilded Trump aesthetic, and the Israelis there are weary of being seen as a gauge of their country’s roller-coaster view of the president.

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A family at Trump Heights, a small settlement in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
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Israeli Military Kills Two Palestinian Youths in Village Raid, Residents Say

Al Mughayir, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has become a focal point for rising settler violence, with the latest deadly episode starting in a dispute over livestock.

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A funeral on Thursday for two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Al Mughayir.
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Israeli Authorities Charge 12 Guards in Beating Death of Palestinian Prisoner

The rare prosecution comes amid widespread reports from rights groups about mistreatment in Israeli detention centers, where, activists say, scores of Palestinians have died since October 2023.

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Ketziot detention center in Israel in 2007. Twelve Israeli prison guards were indicted on Tuesday in the beating death of a Palestinian man here in 2023.
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Israel Opens Criminal Investigation Into Killings of Hind Rajab and Gaza Medical Workers

Two high-profile cases that had spurred international condemnation of the country’s conduct in Gaza were transferred to the military police. Such investigations have rarely led to convictions.

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A car where the bodies of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl, and her family were found in Gaza City after an Israeli strike in 2024.
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