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An Emirati F-16E fighter jet; illustrative.
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INSIDE THE remains of a small clothing store, where some articles of clothing still hung on racks, the ‘Post’ was shown a 25-meter shaft leading to an underground Hezbollah command center beneath the floorboards, where communications equipment, weapons, and uniforms were found.

The Rubble Doctrine: Inside Israel's new security policy in southern Lebanon

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IDF would withdraw from Lebanon if Hezbollah disarmed as CIA plans to remove terror weapons

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Haifa Port opens new cruise terminal as Israel’s tourism sector eyes recovery

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Adolf Eichmann, pictured in 1941/1942, in his SS uniform. Eichmann fled to Argentina in 1950 before being captured by the Mossad in 1960.

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