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Sep 2024
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Israel rejects ceasefire proposal; New Y...

The Economist
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, appeared to reject an American-backed proposal for a ceasefire with Hizbullah, saying that rumours of a truce were “not true”. 
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