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EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A woman mourns the victims killed by Israeli bombardment in Jabalia, at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on April 18, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said on April 18 that 15 people, including 10 from the same family, had been killed in two overnight strikes as Israeli pressed its unrelenting military offensive in the Palestinian territory. Israel had resumed its intense military offensive in the Palestinian territory after a ceasefire deal that came into effect on January 19 fell apart two months later over differences regarding its next phase. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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