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Yossi Leshem, Israeli ornithologist and founder of an international bird migration research centre, poses for a picture in front of his home in the Har Gilo Israeli settlement near Jerusalem on October 30, 2024. Across northern Israel's nature reserves, the ecological toll of the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants is laid bare. The impact is particularly clear at the Agamon Hula Valley Nature Reserve, where all that remains in some areas after more than a year of Hezbollah rocket fire from Lebanon are burned plants and cinder-strewn soil. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)