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May 2024
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Netanyahu calls Rafah strike "tragic" mi...

The Economist
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that civilian deaths in an Israeli air strike on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah were a “tragic mishap”, and that Israel was investigating.

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