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News In Druze town where hundreds breached border with Syria, residents mourn one tragedy while fearing another
“They cried, they hugged, and then they went back to opposite sides of the fence, in enemy states,” recalled a soldier who witnessed family reunions during the brief breach
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Fast Forward Youth wing of the Democratic Party passes amendment opposing Israel’s ‘ongoing genocide in Gaza’
The amendment underscores growing fault lines between Israel and the Democratic party
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News Head of embattled Gaza aid program tells Jewish group starvation is ‘real’ — but blames the United Nations and Hamas
Rev. Johnnie Moore says Hamas and other aid groups are waging a disinformation campaign against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
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Fast Forward 25 countries call for ‘immediate’ end to Gaza war, citing mounting death toll at aid distribution sites
Daily shootings kill Gazans seeking aid under U.S.-Israel distribution system
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Fast Forward AOC faces backlash, vandalism after voting against cutting US aid from Israel’s Iron Dome
The representative’s headquarters in New York was also defaced with red paint following the vote
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Fast Forward Mike Huckabee to Israel: End hostile treatment of Christian allies
The U.S. ambassador threatened to warn American Christians against traveling to Israel in a leaked letter
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Opinion What exactly is going on between Israel and Syria — and is the prospect of peace dead?
Yesterday, Israeli airstrikes damaged the Syrian Ministry of Defense in the heart of Damascus
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Fast Forward Syrian detente hopes dim as president accuses Israel of sowing ‘chaos and destruction’ with strikes
Israel intervened in a situation involving the Druze, a religious minority whose members live in Syria and Israel
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