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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses media during a joint press conference with French President in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. CHRISTOPHE ENA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Israel's lack of a strategy is the strategy

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Palestinian medics care for premature babies evacuated from Al-Shifa hospital to the Emirates hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Street vendors sell bottled water to Taylor Swift fans amid a heat wave before her Eras Tour concert outside the Nilton Santos Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. Silvia Izquierdo/AP hide caption

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Against a backdrop of an Argentine flag, supporters of presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza Alliance, Javier Milei, record with their mobile phones as he speaks during a campaign appearance. Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A truck carrying a limited delivery of fuel crosses into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Israel has agreed to allow in a greater amount of fuel for humanitarian use. Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Up First briefing: Netanyahu talks Gaza's future; Sean 'Diddy' Combs accused of rape

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Rescued from her studio in Kibbutz Be'eri near Israel's border with Gaza, artist Ziva Jelin's damaged painting Curving Road is currently on special display in the Israeli Art gallery of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Zohar Shemesh/The Israel Museum, Jerusalem hide caption

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel's actions and goals in Gaza in an interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep on Friday. Abir Sultan//AP hide caption

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Netanyahu says Gaza needs a new 'civilian government,' but won't say who

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Hundreds of mourners gather for the funeral service of Canadian Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver on Thursday in Kibbutz Gezer, Israel. Maya Levin for NPR hide caption

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Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo leaves at the end of a press conference in the Plaza of Human Rights in Guatemala City after Guatemalan prosecutors announced they would seek to strip Arévalo and several members of his party of their immunity from prosecution. Santiago Billy/AP hide caption

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Guatemalan prosecutors pursue plans to press charges against the president-elect

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An internally displaced woman feeds her daughter at their room in a school reconverted as a temporary center for internally displaced people on Oct. 25, in Tyre, Lebanon. The International Organization for Migration reported 19,646 people had been displaced inside Lebanon since Oct. 8, the day after an assault on Israel by Hamas militants. Manu Brabo/Getty Images hide caption

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Israel-Hezbollah fighting forces people in southern Lebanon to flee violence — again

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A satellite view shows smoke along the Gaza-Israel border on Oct. 7 in an image combining natural with shortwave-infrared highlights. The image came from a Copernicus Sentinel satellite run, by the EU space program. Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2023/Getty Images hide caption

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Silvana Estrada performs onstage at 2022 Best New Artist Showcase during the 23rd annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas. David Becker/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy hide caption

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Silvana Estrada moves from fear to defiance in Latin Grammy-nominated 'Si Me Matan'

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U.S. President Joe Biden greets China's President President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Wednesday, Nov, 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. Doug Mills/AP hide caption

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A wounded Palestinian boy arrives to the emergency room of the Al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 17. Israel claims Hamas uses the facility for military purposes and has built a vast underground command center below the hospital. As Israeli forces move in on the facility, hundreds of doctors and patients remain inside. Abed Khaled/AP hide caption

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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip walk in a United Nations Development Programme-provided tent camp in Khan Younis,Nov.15, 2023. Fatima Shbair/AP hide caption

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GAZA CITY, GAZA- Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during a military show in the Bani Suheila district on July 20, 2017 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption

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Protesters marching in support of Palestinians fill an intersection near where President Biden was holding a fundraiser while in town for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, on Tuesday. JASON HENRY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Biden's Support of Israel Could Cost Him Votes in 2024

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