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A man looks at photographs on a wall of hostages who were abducted during the Oct. 7, unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, in Jerusalem, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel vows to press ahead in Gaza as hostage talks near finish line

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli security forces examine the body of a Palestinian attacker outside the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the West Bank, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. Israeli police say officers shot and killed a teenager who allegedly attempted to stab them in the occupied West Bank. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates | Israeli strikes raise Gaza death toll as Blinken heads to Mideast

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards a plane Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., en route to Saudi Arabia as part of his fifth urgent trip to the Middle East since the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza erupted in October. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

Blinken returns to Mideast in push for hostage deal and postwar plan for Gaza, but obstacles loom

By Matthew Lee, Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinian demonstrators stand in front of the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), demanding that the agency fulfil promises to compensate them for losses to their homes during the 2014 war, in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The protest revealed public desperation amid ongoing efforts to alleviate Gaza's housing crisis, including an Egyptian-funded project that aims to complete 1,400 apartments by the end of this year. Arabic reads "We demand the UNRWA to pay the compensation that we signed with the agency.", "We demand UNRWA to pay compensation for the 2014 aggression.", "Eight years of suffering while we are waiting for our compensation, which is a legal right for every affected refugee." - Victims of the 2014 aggression". (AP Photo/Adel Hana, file)

Republicans move to cut off funding permanently to Hamas-linked U.N. relief agency

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The entrance to the former U.S. Embassy, which has been turned into an anti-American museum, is seen in Tehran, Iran, on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. U.S. porn actor Whitney Wright, who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel's war on Hamas, traveled to Iran in Feb. 2024 and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran abandoned after the 1979 hostage crisis. The visit by Wright has sparked heated criticism over the country's crackdown on women since the 2022 death in police custody of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

U.S. porn actor who advocates for Palestinians visits Iran on trip unacknowledged by Tehran

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. Israel's internal security agency said on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, that it had arrested five Palestinians in a plot allegedly hatched in Iran to target and spy on senior Israeli politicians, including the country's far-right national security minister. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool, File)

Far-right minister’s criticism of Biden sparks anger in Israel at a sensitive time for U.S. ties

By Melanie Lidman and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

In this image provided the Ministry of Defence, an RAF Typhoon aircraft takes off to conduct further strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (AS1 Jake Green/Ministry of Defence via AP)

What to know about the U.S. strikes in Iraq and Syria and its attacks with the U.K. in Yemen

By Bassem Mroue and Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp - Associated Press

Marwan Barghouti, center, raises his handcuffed hands in the air on the opening day of his trial at Tel Aviv's District Court on Aug. 14, 2002. Hamas officials say that any cease-fire deal with Israel should include the release of prisoner Marwan Barghouti — a leader of the militant group's main political rival. The demand by Hamas marks the central role Barghouti plays in Palestinian politics — even after more than two decades behind bars and sentenced by Israel to multiple life terms in prison. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Hamas demands Israel release Marwan Barghouti, a man some Palestinians see as their Nelson Mandela

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Palestinians line up for free food distribution during the ongoing Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Signs of Hamas resurgence seen in Gaza areas left by Israeli troops

By Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Israeli women demand the immediate release of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group at a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Israel says Hamas is still holding more than 100 people it captured in an Oct. 7 raid that triggered the current war with Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates | Hamas is expected to respond soon to a proposal that includes hostage releases

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians line up for free food distribution during the ongoing Israeli air and ground offensive in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Hamas says it’s studying Gaza cease-fire proposal, but appears to rule out key provisions

By Bassem Mroue and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A police detective works the scene where two high school students were shot and killed just blocks from Millennium Park, in Chicago, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Violence-plagued Chicago mocked for city council demanding Gaza cease-fire

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Biden sanctions Jewish West Bank settlers attacking Palestinians

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden, with from left, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., listen during the National Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden will celebrate his UAW endorsement in Detroit, where Arab American anger is boiling over Gaza

By Joey Cappelletti and Colleen Long - Associated Press

Israeli activists block the exit of Ashdod port to stop trucks they claim are carrying humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. The activists say no aid should enter the territory until Israeli hostages held captive by the Hamas militant group are released. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | Death toll in Gaza passes 27,000 as South Africa says Israel is ignoring court ruling

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo released by the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prays at the grave of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran threatens to ‘decisively respond’ to any U.S. strikes as Biden weighs response to Jordan attack

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., speaks during a news conference, on Dec. 8, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The far-left "Squad" member is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for allegedly misusing campaign funds to pay a bodyguard whom she later married. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

Two ‘Squad’ members are lone votes against bill to bar Hamas members from U.S.

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Federal judge dismisses case seeking to force U.S. to pressure Israel to stop bombing Gaza

Associated Press

CORRECTS CITY TO KHAN YOUNIS, INSTEAD OF RAFAH - Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Israel has expanded its offensive in Khan Younis, saying the city is a stronghold of the Hamas militant group. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | 150 people are killed in Gaza in 24 hours, Health Ministry says

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, wears a protective vest and helmet as he receives a security briefing with commanders and soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, Dec. 25, 2023. Netanyahu has said Israel will continue with the offensive until a "final victory" achieves all of its goals. He expects the war to last throughout 2024 and has resisted calls from the U.S. and other allies to lay out a clear postwar plan for Gaza. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Handout via AP, File)

‘Dismantlement of the government’? Israel’s Netanyahu under pressure over Hamas hostage deal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times