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A Palestinian man feeds a monkey at a zoo, amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 31. — Reuters

Palestinians feed a monkey at a zoo, amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 31. — Reuters

Lions sit in their enclosure, amid the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas, at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, December 31. — Reuters

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