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Palestinians inspect the site of an earlier Israeli army strike in the Muwasi area, in Khan Younis, central Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. According to Palestinian medical officials, the airstrike killed at least 10 people, including three children and two senior police officers, in an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli strikes kill at least 18 in Gaza, including 3 children, officials say

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People demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (Berkman Ulutin/DIA Photo via AP)

Tens of thousands of people in Istanbul protest Gaza war

Associated Press

Manal Lubbad, a 49-year-old mother of eight and a displaced woman from Gaza City, tries to clean her flooded tent after heavy overnight rainfall at the refugee tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza as war grinds into the new year with no end in sight

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Ford blames hacked account for anti-Israel posts

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Brothers Belal, 5, and Mohammed Hamad, 7, collect water from their flooded family tent after overnight rainfall at the refugee tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Dozens of patients and wounded evacuated from Gaza for treatment

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War is peace illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Amnesty International’s Gaza genocide claims against Israel distort reality

By Gerard Leval

Alaa Hamami gazes into a fragment of a broken mirror as she poses for a portrait beside her deteriorating cosmetics in her tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

In Gaza’s crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy

By Wafaa Shurafa and Julia Frankel - Associated Press

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, Pool, File)

Netanyahu is getting his prostate removed as he faces crises on multiple fronts

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Imam Islam Abu Suaied prays over the bodies of two babies before their burial at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. One baby died at birth, while the other, 20-day-old Jomaa al-Batran, succumbed to hypothermia. According to local health officials, at least three other babies in Gaza have died from the cold in recent weeks.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A fourth infant dies of the winter cold in Gaza as families share blankets in seaside tents

By Wafaa Shurafa and Majdi Mohammed - Associated Press

A Palestinian man sits mourning relatives killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the Maghazi refugee camp, at Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel detains the director of one of northern Gaza’s last functioning hospitals, Palestinians say

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Palestinian Tamim Marouf, 6, sits inside his family's tent alongside his sister Hala, 10, and his brother Malek, 4, at a camp for internally displaced Palestinians on the beachfront in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli troops forcibly remove staff and patients from northern Gaza hospital, officials say

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Relatives and friends mourn over the bodies of five Palestinian journalists who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel announces new strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen’s capital and ports

By Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

FILE - Palestinian women and girls struggle to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip Friday, Dec. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

The U.S. says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern.

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Palestinians pray over the bodies of the victims of an Israeli strike on a home late Saturday before the funeral outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. At least eight people were killed according to the hospital which received the bodies.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel and Hamas accuse each other of complicating ceasefire efforts as they inch closer to a deal

By Sam Mednick and Tia Goldenberg and Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

Hanukkah celebrates the miracle of a holy oil lasting for eight days and the heroism of the Maccabees who fought to save ancient Israel from an invading nation. The parallels to that story and one of today's Israeli heroes defending the Jewish state are not lost on Yael Eckstein, the president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Photo courtesy of International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

Parallels between first Hanukkah and today are striking reminder of God’s provision

By Yael Eckstein and International Fellowship of Christians and Jews – Higher Ground Partner

Palestinians pray over the bodies of the victims of an Israeli strike on a home late Saturday before the funeral outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. At least eight people were killed according to the hospital which received the bodies.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

A baby froze to death overnight in Gaza as Israel and Hamas trade accusations of ceasefire delays

By Sam Mednick and Tia Goldenberg and Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of five policemen killed Monday by an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday Dec. 24, 2024. According to witnesses at the scene, the policemen fired shots to prevent a group of bandits blocking the road from stealing aid from a truck. The Israeli army immediately struck the policemen after that.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel expels patients from a hospital in Gaza

Associated Press

Father Silas leads an Orthodox service in worship at Advent Mass in Saint Porphyrios Church in Gaza's Old City. Photo courtesy of Saint Porphyiros Church.

In the shadow of war, Christians in Gaza face a somber Christmas

By Emma Ayers - The Washington Times

Palestinian women and girls struggle to reach for food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Global monitor says famine is weeks away in north Gaza. U.S. diplomat calls warning ‘irresponsible’

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Nuns walk along the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, on Christmas Eve, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Bethlehem is set to mark a second subdued Christmas during the war in Gaza

By Jalal Bwaitel - Associated Press