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President Joe Biden speaks about the September jobs report, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in Washington. Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday that a meeting has not yet been set up “but it is a possibility.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden ready to offer ‘all means of appropriate support’ to Israel following Hamas attacks

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

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., arrives to meet with members at the Capitol in Washington, July 22, 2021. Scalise has emerged as a leading contender to replace McCarthy who was voted out of the job by a contingent of hard-right conservatives. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Scalise calls for Biden to be held accountable for Hamas attack

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

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

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

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

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Tourists take cover from the mid-day heat at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli army kills 14-year-old Palestinian as an Israeli minister visits a flashpoint holy site

By Tia Goldenberg and Isaac Scharf - Associated Press

Illustration on Iran's shadow war against Israel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Iran’s shadow war: Israelis are defending themselves against Tehran’s foreign legions

By Clifford D. May

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

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

Palestinians wave Syrian, Lebanese, Iranian and Egyptian flags during a rally to mark Jerusalem Day, an annual show of support for the Palestinians, after the Friday prayer in Gaza City, Friday, April 14, 2023. Since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, the rallies marking what is also known as al-Quds Day have typically been held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

In first, Iran’s president addresses Palestinians in Gaza

By Fares Akram - Associated Press

Fire and smoke rise following an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza Strip, Friday, April 7, 2023. The Israeli military has struck targets in the Gaza Strip, pushing the region toward a wider conflagration after a day of rocket fire along the country's northern and southern borders. The fighting follows two days of unrest at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site. As Israeli aircraft began striking Gaza, Palestinian militants quickly fired off a new barrage of rockets, setting off air raid sirens across southern Israel. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Israel strikes targets in the Gaza Strip as Netanyahu warns enemies will pay ‘heavy price’

By Isabel Debre and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

Israeli police are deployed at the Dome of the Rock Mosque in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following a raid at the site during the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan in the Old City of Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Palestinian media reported police attacked Palestinian worshippers, raising fears of wider tension as Islamic and Jewish holidays overlap. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Violence at holy Jerusalem site raises tension over holidays

By Mahmoud Illean and Fares Akram - Associated Press

Palestinian rescuers inspect the site of a damaged building following an Israeli forces raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Israeli forces killed at least nine Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, and wounded several others during a raid in the flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, in one of the deadliest days of fighting in years. The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to arrest militants when a gun battle erupted. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Jerusalem, West Bank on edge after outbreak of violence

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

A Palestinian artist paints a portrait of of the late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat, on a wall in preparation of celebration of 58th Fatah anniversary, at the main square in Gaza City, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Huge crowds of Palestinians mark Fatah anniversary in Gaza

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Palestinian mourners carry the body of Fayez Damdoum in the West Bank village of Azariyah, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Israel's paramilitary border police said forces shot a protester who attempted to throw a firebomb at them as they came to disperse a demonstration. It said demonstrators threw stones and explosives at them. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the dead youth as 18-year-old Fayez Damdoum. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen after alleged firebomb

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Illustration on Hamas and press freedom by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Reporters in Gaza have never been free

By Clifford D. May

FILE - Video journalists and photographers work as Mufid Hassayneh, Palestinian minister of public works, center, and Mohammed Abu Haloub of Qatar Charity, unseen, speaks during a cornerstone ceremony for rebuilding Zafer 4 Tower in Gaza, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 18, 2015. Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers issued sweeping new restrictions on journalists after the recent conflict there, but then rescinded them, a group representing foreign media in Israel and the Palestinian territories said Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Hamas issues, then rescinds, sweeping rules on Gaza coverage

By Tia Goldenberg and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press