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  • Vehicles of the International Committee of the Red Cross carry the bodies of hostages held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023, attack, after their transfer by Hamas under a ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on October 15, 2025. (Photo by Abood Abusalama / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by ABOOD ABUSALAMA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Masked Hamas fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as the group fights with rival powers
  • Ruby Chen, father of Itay Chen, speaks at the weekly 'Bring Them Home' rally in Hostage Square Hostages Square on October 11, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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    Fury grows in Israel over delayed release of deceased hostages
  • A freed Palestinian is hugged by a relative after he was released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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    Live Updates October 14, 2025 – Gaza ceasefire news
  • Families gathered in Tel Aviv's Hostages' Square Saturday, in a demonstration all hoped would be the last.
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    Between grief and joy, Israel awaits the return of its hostages
  • People visit a memorial for the victims killed at or kidnapped from the Supernova music festival during the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants, at the festival site near Kibbutz Reim in southern Israel, on the eve of the attacks' first anniversary on October 6, 2024. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • People walk past the rubble of collapsed buildings along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on January 20, 2025 a day after a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas went into effect. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)
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    See how two years of war, loss and heartbreak has changed these Palestinians in Gaza
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  • Bassem Youssef poses for portrait photographs in London, Thursday, April, 4, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
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  • TEL AVIV - SEPTEMBER29: (ISRAEL OUT) Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is taken away under escort September 29, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel after continued proceedings in his trial in the Tel Aviv District Court. Barghouti, head of the Fatah Tanzim movement, refused to testify in his trial charging that the outcome of the court case was predetermined. Israel has charged Barghouti with leading and conducting suicide attacks on Israeli targets and is accused of murder and attempted murder. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)
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    Hamas is demanding the release of a prominent Palestinian prisoner. This could be a red line for Israel
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  • A woman passes a placard with the lettering 'Bring them home now' that is seen among portraits of hostages and victims of Palestinian militant group Hamas that are attached to the fence of the New Synagogue in Berlin on October 6, 2025, one day before the second anniversary of Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Delegations from Hamas, Israel and the United States are due to convene in Egypt for talks on October 6, with US President Trump urging negotiators to "move fast" to end the nearly two-year war in Gaza. Both Hamas and Israel have responded positively to Trump's proposal for an end to the fighting and the release of captives in Gaza in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Israel assesses Hamas may not be able to return all remaining dead hostages, sources say
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  • Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila sit in a vessel making their way to Israel, after Israel intercepted some of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, in this handout image released on October 2, 2025.
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    Returning Gaza flotilla activists claim mistreatment in Israeli detention, fear for remaining prisoners
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  • The activists, most of whom are Israeli-Jews, represent a minority in Israeli society, but they say it's important to continue to challenge their people's beliefs.
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    Global outrage has grown after two years of bombardment in Gaza. In Israel, it is a different story
  • Greta Thunberg and other activists detained as Israeli military intercepts Gaza-bound aid ships
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  • Netanyahu defends Trump’s Gaza plan to skeptical hardliners in his government, officials say
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    Trump promises ‘something special’ on Gaza as Israeli officials say Netanyahu has reservations on ceasefire plan
  • When Trump meets Netanyahu, he’ll meet a politician transformed
  • Israeli strikes left Syria ‘stunned’ and makes normalization ‘difficult,’ Syrian foreign minister says
  • Trump upbeat about ending Gaza war as 21-point peace plan takes shape
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