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Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, listens as President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Washington. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip have carried out an unprecedented, multifront attack on Israel, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden suffers political fallout over Iran deal after Hamas attack on Israel

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations, killing hundreds and taking captives. Palestinian health officials reported scores of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel declares war; Iran-backed Hezbollah joins Hamas in the fight

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Palestinians wave their national flag and celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis southern Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Yousef Masoud)

Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘we are at war’ after unprecedented, wide-ranging incursion by Hamas

By Josef Federman and Issam Adwan - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, in Washington, after the militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday. Thousands of rockets were fired as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden pledges U.S. support for Israel, warns Jewish State’s foes that the ‘world is watching’

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Rockets are launched by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in Gaza, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

‘We are at war’: 5 things to know about the Hamas militant group’s unprecedented attack on Israel

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

CORRECTS LOCATION Palestinians walk away from the kibbutz of Kfar Azza, Israel, near the fence with the Gaza strip on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

Live updates | Israel’s Netanyahu says offensive against Hamas will ‘reverberate’ for generations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinian workers enter Israel after crossing from Gaza on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, on March 27, 2022. Israel reopened a main crossing with the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 allowing thousands of Palestinian laborers to enter the country for the first time since sealing it last week. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Israel reopens the main Gaza crossing for Palestinian laborers and tensions ease

By Issam Adwan - Associated Press

Nayef al-Sudairi, Saudi Arabia's the first-ever Saudi ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, arrives to present his credentials to the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Dr. Riyad Al-Maliki, Ramallah, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. Al-Sudairi visited the Palestinian territories Tuesday to discuss the burgeoning Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, which the kingdom has said will hinge on what concessions Israel is willing to grant the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Saudi delegation visits Palestinian territories as Israel and Saudi Arabia eye normalization

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

A Palestinian protester uses sling shots to hurls stones while waves Palestinian flag as others burn tires during clashes with Israeli security forces along the frontier with Israel, east of Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The Israeli military said it struck three posts belonging to Hamas, the Islamic militant group that has controlled Gaza since 2007, following a number of incendiary balloons launched from Gaza into Israel. This is the latest violence to roil the territory as Palestinians stage routine protests by the border fence. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel strikes Gaza for the second time in two days after Palestinian violence

Associated Press

A masked Palestinian protester waves his national flag next to burning tires during clashes with Israeli security forces along the frontier with Israel, east of Gaza City, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Six Palestinians are killed in latest fighting with Israel, at least 3 of them militants

By Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Palestinian patients carry their belongings on their way back to the Gaza Strip after receiving medical treatment in Israel, near the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, in the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Israel shut down the main personnel crossing between Israel and Gaza to thousands of Palestinian laborers on Tuesday, following a resurgence of violent protests at the Israeli border fence in recent days. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli military raid kills 3 in West Bank. Officials say 4th man killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Palestinian patients carry their belongings on their way back to the Gaza Strip after receiving medical treatment in Israel, near the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, in the town of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Israel shut down the main personnel crossing between Israel and Gaza to thousands of Palestinian laborers on Tuesday, following a resurgence of violent protests at the Israeli border fence in recent days. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

One Palestinian dies and Israel shuts down main crossing with Gaza after outbreak of border violence

By Issam Adwan - Associated Press

FILE - A Hamas security officer checks a truck entering Gaza at the gate of the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing with Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on June 21, 2021. Israel will reopen the main commercial crossing to Gaza Sunday Sept. 10, 2023, Israeli authorities said, after a nearly weeklong closure that stymied the flow of goods and harmed producers across the embattled territory. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Israel says it will reopen the main cargo crossing to Gaza on Sunday, a relief for Gazan producers

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Palestinian demonstrators chant slogans during a protest against the territory's chronic power outages and difficult living conditions along the streets of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 30, 2023. Several thousand people briefly took to the streets across the Gaza Strip chanting "what a shame" and in one place burning Hamas flags, before police moved in and broke up the protests. (AP Photo)

Thousands take to streets in Gaza in rare public display of discontent with Hamas

Associated Press

A European Union observer watches Palestinians pass from Egypt into the Gaza Strip at the Rafah border Tuesday, July 18, 2006. The European Union withdrew the monitoring mission formed to promote a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians from Gaza after the Hamas militant group seized power in 2007. But 16 years later, the mission continues to maintain offices in Israel in hopes of one day returning. Critics say the ongoing Western commitment to the two-state solution fails to recognize the changing circumstances in the region and maintains a costly status quo. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra, File)

An EU mission in Gaza once represented hope. Today, it is a symbol of a sputtering Western vision

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

Illustration on the hostility against Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Stalinist approach to peacemaking is homicidal logic: No Israel, no problem

By Clifford D. May

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)

U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees raises $107 million of $300 million needed to help millions

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Israelis wave national flags in front of Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of the Old City during the 1967 Mideast war, Sunday, May 29, 2022. The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, called on Palestinians to confront a flag-waving parade planned by Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) **FIILE**

Israeli crowds chant racist slogans, taunt Palestinians during Jerusalem march

By Ilan Ben Zion - Associated Press

Israelis wave national flags in front of Damascus Gate outside Jerusalem's Old City to mark Jerusalem Day, an Israeli holiday celebrating the capture of the Old City during the 1967 Mideast war, Sunday, May 29, 2022. The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, called on Palestinians to confront a flag-waving parade planned by Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) **FIILE**

Hamas calls on Palestinians to confront Israeli victory parade in Jerusalem’s Old City

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Cease-fire between Israel and militants in Gaza appears to hold after days of fighting

By Fares Akram and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press