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Seven Palestinians were killed in a drone strike and a 3-year-old girl was fatally shot in what the Israeli police said may have been a case of errant fire as a car rammed a border post.

A military spokesman said it would use other strategies to destroy Hamas’s networks in southern and central Gaza.

Critics say that hard-won progress toward democracy in Indonesia has been backsliding under Joko Widodo, a two-term president who was once a political outsider.

The plan exposed divisions in Israel’s war cabinet as Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken returned to the Middle East on Friday in an effort to ease escalating tensions.

Israel’s defense minister floated a postwar plan that appeared to seek a middle ground between demands from Washington and from Israel’s right wing. One far-right leader immediately dismissed it.

Royal Mail said on Friday that it was issuing a set of 15 stamps to celebrate the girl group’s 30th anniversary. The stamps will go on sale on Jan. 11.

The group, which has struck before in Iran, has a long history of division with the country.

Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from the crash near the city of Bandung. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear, and the authorities have opened an investigation.

Growing attacks have forced thousands from their homes on both sides of the border between Lebanon and Israel, while Israeli forces continue to pummel the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

A local police chief said three crew members had died in the collision, which took place near the city of Bandung, southeast of Jakarta on the island of Java.