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Jul 2024
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An attack in Golan Heights; Antony Blink...

The Economist
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that Hizbullah would “pay a heavy price” after 11 people, all of them young, were killed when a rocket struck a football pitch in a town in the Golan Heights. 
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