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Tents occupied by displaced Palestinians are seen at the beach in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Tents occupied by displaced Palestinians are seen at the beach in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire quiets one front but Gaza sees no end to war

NOV. 27, 2024

Mohammad Mousawi, 8, a displaced boy from the southern suburb of Beirut who suffers from leukaemia, steps out the entrance of the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Mohammad Mousawi, 8, a displaced boy from the southern suburb of Beirut who suffers from leukaemia, steps out the entrance of the Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Childhood cancer patients in Lebanon must battle disease while under fire

NOV. 26, 2024

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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What’s blocking a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah?

NOV. 25, 2024

FILE - Rescue workers and people gather on the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli airstrike in Baalchmay village east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
FILE - Rescue workers and people gather on the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli airstrike in Baalchmay village east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

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Lebanon’s Shiite Muslims pay high price in war between Israel and Hezbollah

NOV. 25, 2024

FILE - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. Monday Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)
FILE - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. Monday Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

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Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in Israel-Hamas fighting

NOV. 21, 2024

Security officers and rescuers gather at a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
Security officers and rescuers gather at a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

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Israeli strikes kill at least 12 Lebanese rescuers and 15 people in Syria

NOV. 14, 2024

Palestinian girl Halima Abou Yassine, 7, who was brought to Lebanon from Gaza Strip for treatment after an Israeli strike left her near death with a gaping wound in her skull, plays with a toy car at a summer camp in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Palestinian girl Halima Abou Yassine, 7, who was brought to Lebanon from Gaza Strip for treatment after an Israeli strike left her near death with a gaping wound in her skull, plays with a toy car at a summer camp in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Children brought from Gaza to heal from war wounds become caught in another war, in Lebanon

NOV. 13, 2024

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A woman sits on a bed in a room of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Aug. 25, 2024. AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File

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Still wrecked from past Israeli raids, hospitals in northern Gaza come under attack again

NOV. 8, 2024

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CAPTION CORRECTS TYPE OF MUNITION A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building in Ghobeiri, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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AP photographer Bilal Hussein captures moment bomb launched from an Israeli jet hit a building in Beirut

NOV. 1, 2024

Israeli police and rescue services inspect the site where a truck driver rammed into a bus stop near an army base, wounding dozens of people, according to Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israeli police and rescue services inspect the site where a truck driver rammed into a bus stop near an army base, wounding dozens of people, according to Israel's Magen David Adom rescue service in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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AP-NORC poll finds Democrats and Republicans split on Israel’s responsibility for war’s escalation

OCT. 30, 2024

FILE - Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)
FILE - Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

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Banning UNRWA will lead to a vacuum and more suffering for Palestinians, the agency’s chief says

OCT. 30, 2024

Rescuers look for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit on Sept. 29 during the deadliest Israeli airstrike on the first week of escalation between Israel and Hezbollah where more than 70 people were killed, in Ain el Delb neighbourhood outside the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Rescuers look for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed building that was hit on Sept. 29 during the deadliest Israeli airstrike on the first week of escalation between Israel and Hezbollah where more than 70 people were killed, in Ain el Delb neighbourhood outside the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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A Lebanese family was holding a Sunday gathering when an Israeli strike toppled their building

OCT. 27, 2024

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