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- Footage posted to social media on October 19, 2024 shows an IAF helicopter and a drone launched from Lebanon. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in a screenshot from a video statement he posted to social media after his home in Caesarea was targeted by a Hezbollah drone, October 19, 2024. (Screenshot via X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
- A screenshot of video released by the IDF on October 19, 2024, shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar carrying a flatscreen television while escaping into a tunnel with his family the night before the Gaza-ruling terror group's October 7, 2023, onslaught against Israel. (Screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
- A screenshot of video released by the IDF on October 19, 2024, shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's wife, holding a handbag, escaping into a tunnel with him and their children on the night before the Gaza-ruling terror group's October 7, 2023, onslaught against Israel. (Screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
- Staff Sgt. Ofir Berkovich (left) and Sgt. Elishai Young, killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, October 19, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
- A screenshot of video released by the IDF on October 19, 2024, shows an Israeli armored vehicle as Palestinians are evacuated from northern Gaza's Jabaliya camp. (Screenshot of IDF video, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
- Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yishai Netanel Greenbaum, whose death from injuries sustained fighting in Lebanon was announced by the IDF on October 19, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
- Security forces gather behind a cordoned-off area in front of a building damaged by a rocket fired from Lebanon in Kiryat Ata in the Haifa district on October 19, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)
- Security forces speak to residents inside a cordoned-off area near a house hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ein Hamifratz near Acre in northern Israel on October 19, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)
- Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)