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Nearly two weeks have passed and no large-scale response has materialized, leaving Israel and the wider Middle East on edge. Iran, which backs Hamas, blamed Israel for the assassination, but Israeli leaders have not said their forces were responsible. What could an Iranian response look like? U.S. and Israeli diplomats and security officials had some advanced knowledge of its scope and intensity of Iran’s attack in April, which facilitated defensive preparations. The foreign minister of Jordan, an ally of the United States, has traveled to Tehran in recent days for meetings.

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☆ Israel-Hamas War and Gaza Cease-Fire Proposal: Latest Updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Isabel Kershner | Eric Schmitt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Image Smoke billowing after an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. In a statement on Sunday, the group said it objected to “more rounds of negotiations” and the introduction of any new proposals or conditions. Officials in Gaza said over the weekend that dozens of people had been killed in Israel’s strike on the school compound. The authorities in Gaza do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in reporting death tolls. Israel’s political and military leaders have argued that it is essential to keep up the military pressure on Hamas, to force it to come to terms on a cease-fire deal.

Persons: Biden, Khan Younis, Bashar Taleb, Abdel Fattah el, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu, Tisha B’Av Organizations: Lebanese Hezbollah, ., Agence France, Getty Locations: Beirut, Tehran, Israel, Iran, Gaza, Egypt, Qatar, Thani, Cairo, Doha, Jerusalem, Aqsa

As Hamas’s political leader, he was central to the group’s high-stakes negotiations and diplomacy, including the stalled cease-fire deal negotiations with Israel. Here is what we know:Leader of Hamas in GazaMr. Haniyeh was named the leader of Hamas in Gaza in 2006. Mr. Haniyeh led Hamas from Qatar and Turkey in recent years. He was arrested by the Israeli military and served several sentences in Israeli jails in the 1980s and 1990s. The two were targets of an attempted Israeli assassination attempt in 2003; the next year, Mr. Yassin was killed by the Israeli military.

Persons: Ismail Haniyeh, Haniyeh, Yemen —, Iran’s, Sheik Yassin, Yassin, Mr, Haniyeh’s, “, ” Mr, he’d Organizations: United Nations, UNRWA, Islamic, of Gaza, Mr, International Locations: Qatar, Iran, Gaza, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Yemen, Israel, Palestinian, Turkey, Egypt, United States, Gaza City, Ashkelon, Shifa

Tensions were running high on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border on Monday in anticipation of an escalation in hostilities, after Israel’s security cabinet authorized its leaders to decide on the nature and timing of an Israeli military response to a deadly rocket attack from Lebanon last weekend. The Israeli military said overnight that its aerial defense systems successfully intercepted an unmanned aircraft that crossed from Lebanon into northwestern Israel. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on those attacks. Hezbollah has denied responsibility for the rocket attack Saturday that struck a soccer field in Majdal Shams. But the Israeli military said the type of rocket used in the attack is Iranian-made and carries more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of explosives.

Persons: Majdal Shams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Antony J, Blinken, Isaac Herzog, “, Matthew Miller, Adrienne Watson, Gallant, ”, Mohamed Awada, Hwaida Saad, Edward Wong, Gabby Sobelman, Myra Noveck Organizations: Hezbollah, Israel’s, United, State Department, U.S . National Security Council, Lufthansa Group, East Airlines, Lebanon’s Locations: Lebanon, Majdal, Golan, Israel, Iran, United States, Gaza, Tokyo, Majdal Shams, Iranian, Beirut’s, Beirut, Jerusalem

☆ Netanyahu Vows ‘Severe’ Response to Deadly Rocket Attack Tied to Hezbollah
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Isabel Kershner | Euan Ward | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Tensions were high on both sides of the Israeli-Lebanese border on Monday as Israeli leaders vowed to deliver a significant military blow against the armed group Hezbollah in response to a deadly rocket attack over the weekend. The attack on Saturday killed 12 children and teenagers in the Druse Arab village of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia that dominates southern Lebanon and that has been firing rockets into Israel for months, denied responsibility for the strike. But Israel and the United States blamed the group, saying it was Hezbollah’s rocket that had been fired from territory it controls. Hezbollah began firing rockets, antitank missiles and drones into Israel in solidarity with Hamas after that group, which is also backed by Iran, led the deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.

Persons: Majdal Shams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr, Netanyahu, Netanyahu’s, Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Organizations: Saturday Locations: Lebanese, Majdal, Golan, Iran, Lebanon, Israel, United States, ”

☆ A Village’s Anguish Over 12 Children Lost to a Rocket Strike
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The rocket struck on the sideline of the pint-size soccer field, just inside a chain-link fence, where the children of Majdal Shams, a picturesque Druse Arab village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, wait their turn to play, or just sit and watch. On Sunday, a day after the deadly strike launched from Lebanon, a small crater about halfway between the goals was ringed by singed turf. A fortified concrete bomb shelter sat just steps away, now pockmarked by shrapnel, its entrance speckled with blood. A siren warning of incoming rocket fire had sounded at about 6:18 p.m. on Saturday, but the strike arrived within seconds, local residents said, and there was no time to run.

Persons: Majdal Shams Locations: Golan, Lebanon

☆ Netanyahu Seeks Support in U.S. Visit, but Will Find a Nation Distracted
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With his visit to Washington this week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will step away from one political maelstrom and into another. This was not at all what Mr. Netanyahu had in mind when he planned his first visit to Washington in almost four years. He is supposed to meet face to face with Mr. Biden, though it is unclear when. He is also expected to meet Vice President Kamala Harris, who looks set to become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. And the Israeli leader is set to address Congress on Wednesday, hoping to shore up support in the face of increasing international censure over the war in Gaza.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Biden’s, Netanyahu, Biden, Kamala Harris Organizations: Democratic Locations: Washington, Gaza, U.S

☆ Israel-Hamas War and Gaza Latest News
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Riley Mellen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

The strike, which the Israeli military says targeted a Hamas leader, took place in an area designated as a humanitarian zone. Earlier assassination attempts against Mr. Deif are believed to have left him disabled, and he may be missing an eye and limbs. They became more confident that Mr. Deif might enter Mr. Salameh’s compound after a growing cache of evidence suggested that he placed unusual trust in his subordinate. The official, Khalil al-Hayya, who lives in exile, said in an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic that Mr. Deif was listening to Mr. Netanyahu’s words and “mocking” them. Mr. Netanyahu himself, in a televised news conference on Saturday night, said there was still no “absolute certainty” that Mr. Deif had been killed.

Persons: Israel, Muhammad Deif, Deif, Shin, Rafa Salameh, Khan Younis, Salameh’s, Salameh, Benjamin Netanyahu, Izzat, Rishq, Mkhaimar Abusada, ”, Scott Anderson, Anderson, Khalil al, Netanyahu, Bet, Isabel Kershner Organizations: Hamas, The New York Times, Israel Defense Forces, Analysts, Gaza’s Al, Azhar University, Fatah, Gaza Health Ministry, Al Locations: Gaza, Israel, U.S, Khan, Rafa Salameh ., Al Jazeera, Jerusalem

☆ Israel-Gaza News: Live Updates
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-14 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But it remained unclear on Sunday if the primary target, Muhammad Deif, the leader of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, was among the dead. A Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, who lives in exile, said in an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic television that Mr. Deif had not been killed and was listening to Mr. Netanyahu’s words and “mocking” them. Hamas has not offered evidence that Mr. Deif survived. Mr. Deif is the second most senior Hamas figure in Gaza, after its leader in the territory, Yahya Sinwar. But it made no mention of the fate of Mr. Deif and Mr. Salameh.

Persons: Israel, Muhammad Deif, Benjamin Netanyahu, Rafa Salameh, Khan Younis, Khalil al, Deif, Yahya Sinwar, Izzat Al, Salameh, Scott Anderson, ” “, Mr, Anderson, “, Netanyahu, ”, Tamir Hayman Organizations: Gaza Health Ministry, Qassam, Hamas, Al Jazeera, United Nations, Nasser, Institute for National Security, Tel Aviv University Locations: Gaza, Israel, Khan

☆ Rescued Hostage Describes Months of Uncertainty and Terror in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-12 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Idling away the hours in a darkened room in Gaza with two other hostages, Andrey Kozlov sometimes heard one of his captors on the other side of the door typing away on a laptop. The man was a constant presence in the apartment, while other guards worked shifts and went out to the market, Mr. Kozlov said in an interview, from a hotel room in a Tel Aviv suburb a month after his rescue from captivity. The guards were unmasked, but they were careful not to reveal their names, telling the hostages to call them all Muhammad. To differentiate between them, Mr. Kozlov said the hostages gave them nicknames like Big Muhammad and Little Muhammad. Their main jailer had a rounded face, so they called him “Muhammad H’dudim,” Hebrew slang for “Muhammad Chubby Cheeks.”

Persons: Andrey Kozlov, Kozlov, Big Muhammad, Little Muhammad, Muhammad H’dudim, Muhammad Chubby Cheeks, ” Locations: Gaza, Tel Aviv

☆ ‘Crown Jewels of the Jewish People’: Preserving Memories of the Holocaust
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The pictures are haunting: black-and-white prints of a snow-covered barracks and paintings bordered by wire fences and skeletal trees, grim depictions of a World War II camp in France where Jews were interned before being transported to concentration camps. The artist, Jacques Gotko, created one picture using a background of crushed eggshells glued to a wooden board; for others he used a piece of old tire as a printing block. Those were just some of the few materials available to him at the camp where he was held before being transported to Drancy, another camp in France, then Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland, in 1943. Most of the artifacts had been scattered around Yad Vashem’s vast campus, but they will now be housed in a new center that will allow easier access for researchers and provide the most advanced technological conditions to safeguard them for future generations. The center was recently completed and was inaugurated Monday.

Persons: Jacques Gotko, Yad Vashem Locations: France, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Poland, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem’s

☆ After 9 Months of War, Israelis Call for a Cease-Fire Deal and Elections
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Israelis on Sunday marked nine months since the devastating Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7 and the start of the ensuing war in Gaza with a nationwide day of anti-government protests at a time that many here view as a pivotal juncture in the conflict. Primarily calling for a cease-fire deal with Hamas that would see hostages return from captivity and for new elections in Israel, protesters brought morning traffic to a standstill at several major intersections in cities and on highways across the country. By lunchtime, much of central Tel Aviv was blocked in one of the biggest protests in months. Some progress has been made in recent days for a resumption of negotiations toward a tentative deal after weeks of an impasse, even as the fighting continues in Gaza, where an Israeli strike hit in the area of a U.N. school on Saturday, and across Israel’s northern border with Lebanon. But many Israelis, among them the families of some of the hostages, fear that the cease-fire efforts could be torpedoed not only by Hamas, but also by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel who, they say, might prioritize the survival of his government over a deal that could topple it.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel’s, Lebanon

☆ What the Court’s Ruling on Drafting the Ultra-Orthodox Means for Israel
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Israeli Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday that ended a decades-old exemption for ultra-Orthodox Jews from serving in the country’s military could herald a seismic change in the trajectory of the country, with social, political and security implications. The ruling is likely to further strain Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s brittle governing coalition, which depends on the support of two ultra-Orthodox parties that support the exemption, even as Israel is at war in Gaza. The issue of ultra-Orthodox exemption has long polarized a country where most Jewish 18-year-olds, both men and women, are conscripted for years of obligatory service. Mainstream Israelis have long bristled over a lack of equality. More recently, the monthslong war in Gaza and looming conflicts on other fronts have underscored the military’s need for more soldiers.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Blaming Hamas for Gazans’ Suffering, Many Israelis Feel Little Sympathy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The southern Israeli city of Netivot, a working-class hub for mystical rabbis about 10 miles from the Gaza border, escaped the worst of the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, a fluke many residents ascribe to miraculous intervention by the Jewish sages buried here. Nevertheless, many here seem to show little concern about the suffering now of the Palestinian civilians — practically neighbors — across the fence in Gaza. Michael Zigdon, who operates a small food shack in Netivot’s rundown market and had employed two men from Gaza until the attack, expressed little sympathy for Gazans, who have endured a ferocious Israeli military onslaught for the past eight months.

Persons: Michael Zigdon, Gazans Locations: Netivot, Gaza

☆ Israel’s Defense Minister Heads to Washington Amid Tensions
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

We did that time after time,” Mr. Netanyahu said, adding that he had also tried working behind closed doors. U.S. officials said at the time that they found the video “perplexing” and did not know what Mr. Netanyahu was talking about. Mr. Gallant was invited to Washington by his counterpart, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, according to Mr. Gallant’s office. “The United States is our most important and central ally,” Mr. Gallant said shortly before his departure. Mr. Gallant and Mr. Netanyahu are themselves rivals who have openly clashed in recent months, even as they jointly oversee Israel’s military operations.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, Mr, Biden, Netanyahu, ” Mr, ”, excoriating, Gallant, Lloyd J, Austin III, Antony J, Gabby Sobelman Organizations: Israel, Biden, U.S, United, Hezbollah, Lebanese, Defense, White Locations: Gaza, Washington, United States, Jerusalem, Israel, Iran, Lebanon

Northeast Braces for First Severe Heat of the Year , by Johnny DiazNetanyahu Says He Didn’t Know About Plans to Pause Fighting, but Analysts Say He Probably Approved Them, by Isabel Kershner

Persons: Johnny Diaz Netanyahu, Isabel Kershner

☆ Middle East Crisis Israel Announces Daytime Pause in Fighting in Part of Southern Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Vivek Shankar | Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Kerem Shalom sits at the intersection of Gaza, Egypt and Israel, which controls the gateway. The Israeli military later clarified that the pause would be limited and that there would be “no cessation of fighting in the southern Gaza Strip.”“The fighting in Rafah is continuing,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesman, said on social media. Distributing that aid, Israeli officials said, would be contingent on relief agencies, on whom they called to pick up the supplies. Aid groups have said that the Israeli military’s activity in southern Gaza has made distributing aid nearly impossible. Data compiled by the U.N. show that the number of aid trucks entering southern Gaza remains well below the levels before the incursion in Rafah.

Persons: Salah al, Kerem Shalom, Daniel Hagari, Israel Organizations: Hamas, United Nations Locations: Gaza, Israel, Kerem, Egypt, Rafah, Kerem Shalom, United States, Qatar

☆ Why a Gaza Cease-Fire Is So Elusive
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called Hamas’s response to the latest peace proposal for Gaza “negative.” Hamas insisted it was dealing with it “positively.”Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, speaking in Qatar, said Hamas had demanded changes, some of which were “workable” and some not. A Hamas official told an Arabic television channel that the group had not raised any new ideas, and that Mr. Blinken saw things through an Israeli lens and “speaks Hebrew.”The Biden administration has pledged to keep working with the Qatari and Egyptian mediators to bridge the gaps. But after days of intensive diplomacy in the region, a monthslong effort to end the war in Gaza seems as stuck as ever, as each side clings stubbornly to maximalist demands unacceptable to the other. Asked at the Group of 7 summit meeting in Italy if he still thought a deal could be reached, President Biden said, “I haven’t lost hope, but it’s going to be tough.”

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Antony J, Blinken, ”, Biden, “ Organizations: Qatari, Group Locations: Gaza, Qatar, Italy

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☆ As His Political Alliance Breaks Up, Netanyahu Faces a Battle at Home
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Still fighting Israel’s outside enemies on multiple fronts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu woke up on Monday to a new political battlefield at home. The departure this weekend of Benny Gantz and his centrist National Unity party from Israel’s emergency wartime government is unlikely to immediately sever Mr. Netanyahu’s grip on power. Mr. Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, another powerful member of National Unity, also left Mr. Netanyahu’s small war cabinet. Mr. Gantz accused Mr. Netanyahu of “political procrastination,” suggesting that he had been putting off critical strategic decisions to ensure his political survival. His decision to quit the wartime government ushers in a new period of political instability and left many Israelis wondering where the country goes from here.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, Gantz’s, Netanyahu, Gantz, Gadi Eisenkot, Israel, Mr Organizations: National Unity Locations: Gaza, Israel, Iran, Israel’s, Lebanon

☆ Israel’s Euphoria Over Hostage Rescue May Be Fleeting
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Other video footage showed people running for cover as a powerful airstrike exploded near them. Many of those killed were women and children, the hospital officials said. Israel’s military spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, estimated the number of casualties to be under 100, without specifying whether these were dead or wounded or both. Hours later some of the dead had already been buried by their families while others had yet to be claimed, according to Dr. Daqran. “The Apache started to bomb and fire directly at people,” he said, according to Reuters, adding that there were many dead and injured.

Persons: Israel, Khalil Daqran, Marwan Abu Nasser, Daniel Hagari, Daqran, “, ”, Khaled al, Khitam Awad, Ms, Awad, Al Awda, “ Al, Abu Nasser, Bilal Shbair Organizations: Al, Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, New York Times, Hamas, Reuters, “, Gaza Health Ministry Locations: Nuseirat, Gaza, Aqsa, Deir al, Rafah, Israel, Al Aqsa, “ Al Awda

☆ Israel’s Offensive in Southern Gaza Strains Ties With Egypt
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Vivian Yee | Emad Mekay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

That would deal a further blow to a relationship that Israel’s military offensive in southern Gaza had already brought to its lowest point in decades. For Israel, too, more than four decades of a so-called “cold peace” with Egypt has proved to be an essential pillar of national security. Egypt’s patience with Israel’s military moves is wearing dangerously thin, as it has repeatedly made clear. That border point, the main conduit for aid and other supplies during the war, lies between Egypt and Gaza but was recently occupied by Israel, drawing public outrage in Egypt. Egypt has refrained from taking more serious steps to respond to Israel’s moves, such as withdrawing its ambassador from Tel Aviv.

Persons: mouthpieces, Israel, Egypt’s, Gazans, Camp David, ” Ahmed Moussa, Moussa, ”, Mr, ” Isabel Kershner Organizations: Egyptian, International Court, Camp, Camp David Accords, Al, Egypt’s, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas Locations: Egypt, Gaza, Cairo, Israel, Rafah, Tel Aviv, ”

☆ Netanyahu May Face a Choice Between a Truce and His Government’s Survival
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has refused to offer a timeline for ending the war against Hamas in Gaza, a stance his critics see as a political tactic. But he has been put on the spot by President Biden’s announcement outlining a proposal for a truce. Mr. Netanyahu, a conservative, has long juggled competing personal, political and national interests. One, they say, functions pragmatically in the small war cabinet he formed with some centrist rivals, to give it public legitimacy. Israeli officials confirmed that the terms matched a cease-fire proposal that had been approved by Israel’s war cabinet but not yet presented to the Israeli public.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Biden’s, Mr, Netanyahu, Biden Organizations: American, Qatari Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Facing Global Outrage, Netanyahu Calls Civilian Deaths in Rafah Strike ‘Tragic Accident’
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

With international condemnation mounting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Monday that the killing of dozens of people a day earlier at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah was “a tragic accident,” but gave no sign of curbing the Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza city. The deadly fire that tore through the encampment on Sunday after an airstrike came at a particularly delicate time for Israel, just days after the International Court of Justice appeared to order the country’s military to halt its offensive in Rafah and as diplomats were aiming to restart negotiations for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. The Israel military said that the target of the strike in Rafah on Sunday was a Hamas compound, and that “precise munitions” had been used to target a commander and another senior militant official there. But at least 45 people, including children, were killed by the blast and by the fires it set off, according to the Gaza health ministry. The ministry said that 249 people were wounded.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Organizations: International Court of, Hamas, Israel Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Israel, Hamas

☆ I.C.C. Warrant Request Appears to Shore Up Domestic Support for Netanyahu
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Isabel Kershner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If the headlines in Israel were anything to go by, the request by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor for an arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to have granted the Israeli leader one of the most fortuitous turnarounds in his long and turbulent political career. “The Hypocrisy of The Hague,” blared Tuesday’s front page of Yediot Ahronot, a popular mainstream daily that has often been critical of Mr. Netanyahu. Political rivals in Israel offered support. American officials, who had been critical of his plan to invade Rafah, roundly condemned the I.C.C. In the hours and days before, Mr. Netanyahu had appeared embattled, both domestically and internationally.

Persons: Court’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, Netanyahu, Karim Khan, Yoav Gallant Organizations: Mr, Israel Locations: Israel, Hague, Gaza, Rafah

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