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  • Dual US-Israeli citizen Itay Chen
    Hostages and Missing Families Forum
    Hostage remains handed over Tuesday are those of dual US-Israeli citizen Itay Chen, Israel says
  • U.S. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney talks with members of the army's 3rd Armored Division in Southern Iraq on Tuesday afternoon, May 7, 1991. Cheney said the troops would be on the move to a different location and he hopes to have them home soon. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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  • GAZA CITY, GAZA - NOVEMBER 4: An aerial view of the Gaza Port, where many displaced families continue to live in tents they set up along, following Israel's two-year-long attacks on the Gaza Strip on November 4, 2025. Once a popular tourist spot, Gaza Port and its coastline have now become shelters for Palestinians whose homes were destroyed. (Photo by Mohammed Eslayeh/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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    Trump administration advancing UN resolution for Gaza security force, source says
  • Israel's Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, at the supreme court in Jerusalem Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Oren Ben Hakoon)
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  • Motaz Azaiza
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    Motaz Azaiza’s photos from Gaza showed the heartbreak of war. Now in the US, he’s looking for a way forward
  • Palestinians look out from a damaged building following an Israeli airstrike at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, northern Gaza, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025.
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    Gaza’s new normal is a truce without peace
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a state memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers of the two-year Gaza war at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 16, 2025. Netanyahu said on October 16, that he was determined to ensure that Hamas hands back the remains of hostages still in Gaza, adding that the fight "is not over yet". (Photo by Alex KOLOMOISKY / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX KOLOMOISKY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
    Alex Kolomoisky/AFP/Getty Images
    Deadliest day in Gaza since ceasefire as Israel launches wave of strikes, accusing Hamas of breaching truce
  • Israelis gather at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv to demand the return of the hostage bodies still held in Gaza on Sunday, October 26.
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    Netanyahu says Hamas violated Gaza ceasefire by returning remains not linked to missing hostages
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  • Tal Haimi
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    Israel identifies body of deceased hostage as Sergeant Major Tal Haimi
  • Hostage families and supporters gather in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square on Saturday to demand the immediate release of the bodies of the deceased hostages.
    Hannah McKay/Reuters
    Twelfth deceased hostage identified after 2 returned to Israel overnight, kibbutz says
  • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Knesset on the day Trump addresses it, in Jerusalem, on October 13.
    Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
    Trump’s babysitting of Netanyahu puts the US in charge on Gaza
  • The remains of Arye Zalmanovich, an Israeli hostage kidnapped in the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, were returned to Israel on Tuesday.
    Hostages and Missing Families Forum
    Oldest hostage taken by Hamas among two deceased returned to Israel Tuesday
  • Houthi fighters march outside Sanaa, Yemen on Jan. 22, 2024.
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    Yemen’s Houthi rebels detain 20 UN employees and confiscate equipment
  • GAZA CITY, GAZA - OCTOBER 16: El Ghussain family in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northern Gaza City, Gaza, begins rebuilding their demolished home using stones and materials salvaged from the rubble, like many other Palestinian families trying to reconstruct their houses with limited means, following the Israeli army's withdrawal from Gaza City under the ceasefire agreement, on October 16, 2025. (Photo by Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images)
    Saeed M.M.T. Jaras/Anadolu/Getty Images
    Gaza reckons with ruins and old rivalries as mediators piece together wider deal
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    Israel identifies body of tenth hostage as a 75-year-old man as delicate truce enters second week
  • Uncertainty surrounds identities of more than 100 Palestinian bodies handed over by Israel
  • Netanyahu says ‘struggle is not over’ as dispute with Hamas over hostage bodies continues
  • Masked Hamas fighters seen executing men in Gaza City as the group fights with rival powers
  • Two family members hug each other while waiting at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 13, 2025, as relatives and friends gather to watch the live broadcast of hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal's release and reunion with his family. (Photo by Ori Aviram / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by ORI AVIRAM/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
    Ori Aviram/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images
    As Israel celebrates the hostages’ homecoming, Trump basks in the spotlight
  • Tears and cheers in West Bank and Gaza as nearly 2,000 Palestinians are released from Israeli prisons
  • Key moments from a momentous day for Israelis and Palestinians
  • Video Mother of released hostage speaks to him on video call 0:27
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