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  • Trucks carrying aid, which entered Gaza through the Karm Abu Salem crossing, drive past displacement tents at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2025.
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    Live Updates Israel awaits bodies of hostages as relief organizations call for more Gaza aid
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Smoke billows after Israeli bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp in northwest Gaza on Thursday.
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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
  • Jewish immigrants from Europe who want to build a new life in Israel despite ongoing regional violence, disembark from an airplane upon their arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Lod, Israel June 25, 2025. REUTERS/Tomer Neuberg
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    October 7 prompted some Jews to leave Israel. For others, the country offers shelter from rising global antisemitism
  • Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip celebrate after the announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a peace plan, as they gather at a plaza known as the hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 9, 2025.
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    Celebration and trepidation in Gaza and Israel following ceasefire plan agreement
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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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    Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef makes comeback to state TV after more than a decade in exile
  • Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the U.N. headquarters in New York on September 24, 2025.
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    Few women lawmakers elected in Syria’s first parliamentary election since ousting of Bashar al-Assad
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  • In this handout screenshot taken from live video footage, crew members can be seen sitting in a circle aboard the Gaza-bound "Alma" vessel on Wednesday.
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  • US President Donald Trump with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4.
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