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Mohammad Akkash's voice cracks as he lists the names of his 10 grandchildren who were killed just hours earlier in an Israeli air raid on his eldest son's home. "The youngest one, Safat, was just six months old. Is a six-month-old baby a resistance fighter?" he asks. A paunchy man with grizzled crew cut.

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