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Civil Defense workers inspect the wreckage of a vehicle, targeted on Al-Nasr Street, with an open plastic bag containing severed limbs sitting on the car seat, while a crowd gathers around the vehicle in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on May 16, 2026.
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Gaza health officials said five Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire despite a fragile ceasefire, as violence continues across the territory.

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 May, 2026
Israel launches heavy strikes on southern Lebanon despite truce extension, fuelling displacement and ceasefire doubts.
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US President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony at the inaugural meeting of the "Board of Peace" at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026.
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 A woman herds her cattle among damaged houses at the villages of Biracem and Biraka, where Syrian Circassians live and whose populations have decreased due to intense Israeli patrols and military bases deployed in the region in Quneitra, Syria on October 12, 2025.
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Israeli settlers take part in the Jerusalem Day parade at the Damascus Gate in the old city of Jerusalem on May 14, 2026. Every year, thousands of Israeli nationalists, many of them religious Jews, march through Jerusalem and its annexed Old City, including in predominantly Palestinian neighbourhoods, waving Israeli flags, dancing and sometimes shouting inflammatory slogans
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