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Israeli strikes killed dozens of Palestinians in Gaza with intense fighting around Al-Shifa Hospital.

The hospital, Gaza City's largest, has been one of the few healthcare facilities in the area

to remain somewhat open and has also been used as a shelter for

displaced civilians. Israel also attacked it earlier in the war claiming Hamas

was using it as a base.

Israel's High Court ordered a freeze on funding for religious institutions

whose ultra-Orthodox students have not registered for military service despite being eligible for

conscription.

The ruling intensifies the infighting in the coalition government over whether young

hereddy men should be obliged to fight. coalition government

should be obliged to fight.

Ultra-Orthodox parties want to codify an exemption in law,

which many Israelis and some in the coalition government oppose.

Jerome Powell, the head of the Federal Reserve, said that he expects inflation to fall

just hours after the personal consumption expenditures index, the Fed's preferred measure of inflation,

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