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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, hosts an event for Mahmoud al-Aloul, left, vice chairman of Fatah, and Mussa Abu Marzuk, a senior member of Hamas, to meet at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Pedro Pardo/Pool Photo via AP)

Hamas and Fatah sign declaration in Beijing on ending yearslong rift as war rages in Gaza

By Jack Jeffery, Tia Goldenberg and Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, looks on as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks, where he introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an event on the Ukraine Compact at the NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, Thursday, July 11, 2024. Biden's withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Biden’s withdrawal injects uncertainty into wars, trade disputes and other foreign policy challenges

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

A Palestinian man displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, walks at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)

Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone

By Wafaa Shurafa and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

Palestinians hold the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Sunday, July 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israel’s latest airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 15 including children

By Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

A Palestinian baby boy, not yet named, who was delivered prematurely after his mother Ola al-Kurd was killed in an Israeli strike, lies in an incubator at a hospital in Deir al-Balah, Friday, July 19, 2024. The latest casualties follow a rare moment of hope in war ravaged Gaza, after a medical teams recovered a live baby from a heavily pregnant Palestinian mother killed in an airstrike that hit her home in Nuseirat late Thursday evening. The still-unnamed newborn is stable but has suffered from a shortage of oxygen and has been placed in an incubator, doctors said. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

13 Palestinians killed in central Gaza as cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas grind on

Associated Press

Omar Ismail, who was born in Dubai and will be competing for the Palestinian territories at the Paris Olympics, practices taekwondo in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Dokoupil)

Paris Olympics is about more than sports for Palestinian athletes

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sept. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool, File)

Far-right Israeli minister visits sensitive Jerusalem holy site, threatening Gaza cease-fire talks

By Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

Israeli police prevent activists from blocking trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Far-right groups that block aid to Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from U.S. and Israel

By Uri Blau And Milan Czerny of Shomrim and Josef Federman of The Associated Press

An Israeli soldier moves on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli strikes across Gaza kill more than 30 as the sides weigh the latest cease-fire proposal

By Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

Israeli police prevent activists from blocking trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Far-right groups that block aid to Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from U.S. and Israel

By Uri Blau and Milan Czerny of Shomrim and Josef Federman - Associated Press

An Israeli soldier moves on the top of a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, July 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Hamas says Gaza cease-fire talks haven’t paused and claims military chief survived Israeli strike

By Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

Palestinians evacuate a body from a site hit by an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 13, 2024. Israel said it targeted Hamas' shadowy military commander in a massive strike Saturday in the crowded southern Gaza Strip that killed at least 71 people, according to local health officials. Hamas immediately rejected the claim that Mohammed Deif was targeted. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strike targets the Hamas military commander and kills at least 90 in southern Gaza

By Mohamed Jahjouh - Associated Press

President Joe Biden walks from the podium after a news conference Thursday July 11, 2024, on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Amid doubts, Biden tries to showcase foreign policy strengths at press conference

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Philippe Lazzarini, under-secretary-general of the United Nations and commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaks during a news conference at their compound following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, May 23, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Israel gives U.N. Palestinian agency list of 100 terrorist staffers

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are brought to a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

U.S. announces $100M additional aid for Palestinians

Associated Press

FILE - A man wearing a keffiyeh looks at the U.S. Capitol during a pro-Palestinian rally, on May 18, 2024, on the National Mall in Washington. At the graduation ceremony of New York University Abu Dhabi in May, 2024, a student wearing the traditional Palestinian black-and-white keffiyeh scarf shouted “Free Palestine!” as he crossed the stage to receive his diploma, witnesses say. Days later, he reportedly was deported from the United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

University student who yelled ‘Free Palestine’ reportedly deported as UAE weighs Israel-Hamas war

By Malak Harb - Associated Press

A Palestinian boy wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is treated in a hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes in central Gaza kill 20 Palestinians as mediators make new push on cease-fire deal

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Hassan Nofal, 53, who was displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, holds the keys to his home that he was forced to leave with his family at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 4, 2024. Over nine months of war between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian families in Gaza have been uprooted repeatedly, driven back and forth across the territory to escape the fighting. Each time has meant a wrenching move to a new location and a series of crowded, temporary shelters. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

House keys carry symbolic weight for Gaza families repeatedly displaced by war

By Mohammed Jahjouh and Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

Pope Francis attends a meeting with the participants of the 50th Social Week of Catholics in Italy, in Trieste, Italy, on July 7, 2024. The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has strongly defended the integrity and fairness of the city state’s justice system, amid criticism that Pope Francis' absolute power and his interventions in the recently concluded “trial of the century” violated the defendants’ fundamental rights. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope Francis begs for new peace efforts after latest attacks in Ukraine, Gaza

Associated Press

A poster depicting Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is displayed in Re'im, southern Israel at the Gaza border, Feb. 26, 2024, at a memorial site for the Nova music festival site where he was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas on Wednesday, April 24, 2023, released a recorded video of an Israeli American still being held by the group. The video was the first sign of life of Hersh Goldberg-Polin since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. It was not clear when the video was taken. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Israeli hostage’s family to launch ‘Week of Goodness’ to bring attention to remaining 120 captives

By Amelie Botbol – JNS.org