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By Michael Bachner
and ToI Staff 6 August 2024, 5:58 am Edit
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and ToI Staff 6 August 2024, 5:58 am Edit
- Smoke billows over hills in the Golan Heights after rockets were fired from southern Lebanon on August 6, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
- Bilha and Yakov Inon (Courtesy)
- A gunman fires shots in the air during the funeral of five Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike in Jenin in the West Bank on August 6, 2024. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)
- An ultra-Orthodox protester runs away from a policeman during a demonstration decrying the drafting of Haredi men to the army, outside the IDF recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, central Israel, August 6, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
- From left: US Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Democratic presidential candidate, US Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his wife Gwen Walz greet supporters during a campaign rally at Girard College on August 6, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)
- Police work at the site of a Hezbollah drone strike near Nahariya, August 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
- Footage taken by an onlooker in northern Israel appears to show a Hezbollah attack drone that crossed from Lebanon, on August 6, 2024. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, standing with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, speaks during a news conference at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP/Susan Walsh)
- Police and medical personnel at the scene of a stabbing attack at the Tunnels Checkpoint in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem, on August 6, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
- Demonstrators block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas terrorists, August 6, 2024. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
- Smoke from an Israeli bombardment billows from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 5, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)