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Middle East
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![Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/GettyImages-964322666.jpg?h=b2774bcf&itok=8LR2ZEhQ)
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![An Israeli armored vehicle near the Gaza border in Sderot, Israel, on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/GettyImages-1727738468.jpg?h=f2fcf546&itok=I4gXW5Mq)
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An Israeli armored vehicle near the Gaza border in Sderot, Israel, on October 16, 2023. (Photo by Saeed Qaq/Anadolu via Getty Images)
![Members of the Australian Jewish community participate in a gathering called 'Balloons of Hope', which represents Israeli hostages who are currently being held by the Palestinian group Hamas, in Sydney, on October 27, 2023. (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/GettyImages-1747605061%20%281%29.jpg?h=090eb322&itok=wwTuIwIh)
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Members of the Australian Jewish community participate in a gathering called 'Balloons of Hope', which represents Israeli hostages who are currently being held by the Palestinian group Hamas, in Sydney, on October 27, 2023. (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)
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![Coptic cave church in Egypt. (Amy Nelson via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/cave%20church%20.jpg?h=025addde&itok=-E6Nms55)
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Coptic cave church in Egypt. (Amy Nelson via Getty Images)
![Pro-Palestine protest in Philadelphia on October 21, 2023. (Joe Piette via flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/pro%20palestine%20protest%20.jpg?h=a1e1a043&itok=N9-koFdi)
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Pro-Palestine protest in Philadelphia on October 21, 2023. (Joe Piette via flickr)
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A man praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. (Jake Warga via Getty Images)
![Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Department of State via Flickr)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/53000113146_f25264db62_o.jpg?h=ac778ff2&itok=WDQFS9MN)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Department of State via Flickr)
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![An AFPTV cameraman films while smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/GettyImages-1719596802%20%281%29.jpg?h=790be497&itok=5woHwWY-)
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An AFPTV cameraman films while smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on October 12, 2023. (Photo by Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images)
![A Chinese Coast Guard vessel collides with a Philippine supply boat near the Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. (Screenshot of China Coast Guard video via Reuters)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/Screenshot%202023-10-24%20132035.jpg?h=68013438&itok=kgBb1iHX)
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A Chinese Coast Guard vessel collides with a Philippine supply boat near the Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, on October 23, 2023. (Screenshot of China Coast Guard video via Reuters)
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![An Israeli soldier displays military equipment and ammunition that Hamas and Palestinans militants used at the time of the attack on the Israeli south border with the Gaza Strip on October 20, 2023 in Kiryat Malakhi, Israel. As Israel prepares to invade the Gaza Strip in its campaign to vanquish Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that launched a deadly attack in southern Israel on October 7th, worries are growing of a wider war with multiple fronts, including at the country's northern border with Lebano](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-10/GettyImages-1734828251.jpg?h=aa6c0f32&itok=hS3kHyzc)
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An Israeli soldier displays military equipment and ammunition that Hamas and Palestinans militants used at the time of the attack on the Israeli south border with the Gaza Strip on October 20, 2023, in Kiryat Malakhi, Israel. (Amir Levy via Getty Images)