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Pro-Palestinian supporters demonstrate at the entrance to the Israeli embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Oct. 20, 2023. South Africa's government has recalled Monday Nov. 6, 2023 its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, calling it “a genocide”. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

South Africa recalls ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel and accuses it of genocide in Gaza

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media about his meetings with Turkish counterparts, before departing from Ankara Esenboga Airport in Ankara, Turkey, Monday Nov. 6, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Blinken wraps up frantic Mideast tour with tepid, if any, support for pauses in Gaza fighting

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Fire and smoke rises from buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Israeli forces sever north Gaza from the rest of the territory ahead of expected push into Gaza City

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinians strike the concrete while looking for survivors under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Live updates | Israeli warplanes hit refugee camps in Gaza while UN agencies call siege an ‘outrage’

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Israeli military on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023, shows ground operation inside the Gaza Strip (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

IDF surrounds Gaza City, divides Strip into two, Israeli military announces

By Wafaa Shurafa and Najib Jobain and Kareem Chenhayeb - Associated Press

Palestinians look for survivors of the Israeli bombardment in the Maghazi refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

What happens next? Questions mount about Gaza’s future as Israel-Hamas war rages

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards his plane to depart after meetings, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken meets Abbas in the West Bank in the latest stop on his diplomat push on the Israel-Hamas war

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Palestinians comfort a crying man after losing relatives under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Warplanes hit Gaza refugee camps as Israel rejects U.S. push for a pause in fighting

By Wafaa Shurafa and Najib Jobain and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - Staff work at the Magen David Adom's (MDA) Marcus National Blood Services Center, in Ramla, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. The blood bank and processing center is a subterranean and shielded facility that became operational a few days before Oct. 7, when Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israeli areas near the border with the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Live updates | Palestinians report deadly Israeli airstrikes including in southern Gaza

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a meeting with Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, during a day of meetings about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)

Blinken tries to build support among wary Arab countries for planning a postwar future for Gaza

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group raise their fists and cheer as Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appears via a video link, during a rally to commemorate Hezbollah fighters who were killed in South Lebanon last few weeks while fighting against the Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Nasrallah's speech had been widely anticipated throughout the region as a sign of whether the Israel-Hamas conflict would spiral into a regional war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israeli strikes kill multiple civilians at shelters in Gaza combat zone, as Blinken seeks more aid

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Iranian demonstrators watch a speech of the Lebanon's militant Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on a screen as they hold flags of Iran, Palestinians and Hezbollah during a pro-Palestinian rally in a downtown square in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. In his first public speech since the war began, Nasrallah said his group had "entered the battle" with the past weeks' unprecedented cross-border fighting. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Hezbollah chief warns Israel of escalation, threatens that U.S. troops ‘will pay the price’

By Ben Wolfgang and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - A man sits on the rubble as others wander among debris of buildings that were targeted by Israeli airstrikes in Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 1, 2023. Weeks after ordering northern Gaza's 1.1 million inhabitants to evacuate south, the Israeli army is intensifying its bombing of the area that stretches to the wetlands of Wadi Gaza. Israeli soldiers are also battling Hamas militants just north of Gaza City. It's the start of what officials expect to be a long and bloody invasion that has already pinned down hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who remain in the north. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled, File)

Trapped in hell: Palestinian civilians try to survive in northern Gaza, focus of Israel’s offensive

By Isabel Debre, Kareem Chehayeb and Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the Israeli military, Israeli troops are seen during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Israeli ground forces have been operating in Gaza in recent days as Israel presses ahead with its war against Hamas militants. (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

Our humanity can support stability in the Middle East

By Michael R. Pompeo and Richard B. Levine

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he disembarks from an aircraft on his arrival in Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates | Israel rebuffs US push for humanitarian pause, says hostages must be released first

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks to reporters prior boarding his aircraft to depart Washington on travel to the Middle East and Asia at Andrews Air Force Base. Md., Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Biden says 74 U.S. dual nationals have left Gaza Strip as Blinken lands in Mideast

By Matthew Lee, Colleen Long and Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Florida state Sen. Lauren Book and her six-year-old son Hudson look at a phone app which provides real-time rocket alerts to Israeli citizens, Oct. 24, 2023, in Plantation, Fla. Book follows the alerts to stay informed and help her children understand what is happening. "I don't want to forget. I don't want my children to ever forget. I don't want my community to forget." (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war is a political test in South Florida’s Jewish community

By Adriana Gómez Licón - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to the media during a press conference, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Blinken is in Israel to press for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken says ‘we need to do more to protect Palestinian civilians’

By Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue and David Rising - Associated Press

FILE - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. A growing list of Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli communities during the Oct. 7 incursion that triggered the current Israel-Hamas war. Conspicuously absent from that roll call is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel’s Netanyahu rules out Gaza cease-fire as Blinken presses for more aid, civilian protection

By Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue and David Rising - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a press conference, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Blinken is in Israel to press for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken warns Israel that humanitarian conditions in Gaza must improve to have ‘partners for peace’

By Matthew Lee and Eric Tucker - Associated Press