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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with the media during a security tour of the Palmachim Air Force base, on October 27, 2019. (Marc iIrael Sellem/POOL)

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Yehiel Indore, who is suspected of shooting and killing 19-year-old Palestinian Qosai Jammal Mi'atan in the West Bank village of Burqa, arrives for a hearing at the Jerusalem District Court, August 15, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
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