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A spokesperson for Hamas’ Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida, has called for an escalation across all fronts in a televised speech marking 200 days since the start of the Israel-Hamas fighting in Gaza on October 7, Reuters reports.

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