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An Israeli soldier walks by a house destroyed by Hamas militants in Kibbutz Be'eri on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. The kibbutz was overrun by Hamas militants from Neraby Gaza Strip Saturday when they killed and captured many Israelis. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Live updates | Day 6 of the latest Israel-Hamas war

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Palestinians rescue a young girl from the rubble of a destroyed residential building following an Israeli airstrike, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing over 900 people and taking captives. Israel launched heavy retaliatory airstrikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Day 5 of the latest Israel-Palestinian war

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians evacuate wounded in Israeli aerial bombing on Jabaliya, near Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct.11, 2023 (AP Photo/Mohammad Al Masri)

Israeli strikes demolish entire Gaza neighborhoods as sealed-off territory faces imminent blackout

By Joseph Krauss and Wafaa Shurafa - Associated Press

FILE - Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Hamas wave green Islamic flags during a pre-election rally in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Monday, Jan. 23, 2006. Palestinians plastered walls with posters, strung up banners and cruised the streets with loudspeakers Monday on the final day of campaigning before parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

What was Hamas thinking? For over three decades, it has had the same brutal idea of victory

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, listens to army commander Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi during a graduation ceremony for a group of armed forces cadets in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel raises questions about the influence of its sponsor, Iran

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Israel has launched intense airstrikes in Gaza after the territory's militant rulers carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing more than 900 people and taking captives. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the airstrikes. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Israel pounds downtown Gaza City, vowing punishing retaliation for weekend attack

By Josef Federman and Issam Adwan - Associated Press

Israelis inspect a damaged residential building after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, Israel, Monday, Oct. 9, 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, killing hundreds and taking captives. Palestinian health officials reported scores of deaths from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. (AP Photo/Erik Marmor)

For years, they trusted the army to defend and inform them. Now many Israelis feel abandoned

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

A man looks at destruction made by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Israel's military battled to drive Hamas fighters out of southern towns and seal its borders Monday as it pounded the Gaza Strip from the air. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel orders ‘complete siege’ on Gaza as it scours south for Hamas fighters

By Josef Federman and Issam Adwan - Associated Press

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

This image released by Israel Police shows two ancient Roman statues toppled at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the museum after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues. The vandalism late Thursday raised questions about the safety of Israel's priceless collections and stirred concern about a rise in attacks on cultural heritage in Jerusalem. (Israel Police via AP)

American tourist arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at museum in Israel

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Mourners react during the funeral of Asid Abu Ali, 21, and Abdulrahman Abu Daghash, 32, in Nour Shams refugee camp in the northern West Bank, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Palestinians said Ali and Daghash were killed in an Israeli army raid, which the army said was carried out to destroy a militant command center and bomb-storage facility in the refugee camp. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

2 Palestinian militants killed in gunfight with Israeli troops in West Bank raid

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Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system and in support of the Supreme Court ahead of Thursday's pivotal hearing, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The hearing over a law that makes it more difficult to remove Netanyahu from office deepens a rift between the government and the judiciary amid months of turmoil in Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel’s High Court hears a challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove Netanyahu from office

By Tia Goldenberg and Moshe Edri - Associated Press

Mourners carry the body of Abdallah Abu Hasan, an 18-year-old militant Palestinian authorities said was killed by Israeli fire Friday morning, during his funeral in the village of Al-Yamoun, near the West Bank city of Jenin, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Hasan's body is wrapped in a Islamic Jihad flag — the group claimed Hasan as one of its militant fighters. The Israeli army said the incident occurred during a nighttime raid into the West Bank, after Palestinians fired and threw explosives at soldiers in the town of Kafr Dan. Soldiers shot back, hitting Hasan. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli forces kill a Palestinian militant in the latest violence in the occupied West Bank

By Julia Frankel - 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

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shake hands marking the signing of the peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, in Washington, Sept. 13, 1993. Israel's foreign minister told the Norwegian foreign minister Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 that Israel rejects “external dictates” on its handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a statement from his office. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen's statement comes on the 30th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, a peace agreement between Israel and Palestinian leaders which many view as the region's last gasp at peace. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

30 years after Oslo, Israeli foreign minister rejects international dictates on Palestinian issue

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system and in support of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli Supreme Court hears first challenge to Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Palestinians walk by closed shops during a general strike called after the death of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner who died in Israeli custody after a nearly three-month hunger strike, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Adnan began his strike shortly after being arrested on Feb. 5. Adnan, a leader in the Islamic Jihad militant group, had gone on hunger strikes several times after previous arrests. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli military kills 2 Palestinians in West Bank, a militant in an army raid and a teenage gunman

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A Palestinian family member inspects the damage at his family's house that was besieged during an Israeli army raid in the West Bank town of Aqaba, near Tubas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. The Israeli military on Friday raided the Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, besieging an apartment and sparking a gunfight with local militants that killed an apparently uninvolved Palestinian teacher, his family and Palestinian health officials said. The Israeli army said it searched the hide-out and found improvised explosive devices in a children's room, along with other military equipment like high-capacity gun magazines. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Israeli forces raid a West Bank town, sparking a firefight that kills a Palestinian teacher

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Rahaf, the younger sister of Mohammed Zalabani, a 13 year-old Palestinian in juvenile detention, awaiting trial on murder charges for a Feb. 13 stabbing attack, pauses in the family's emptied apartment which is slated to be demolished by Israeli authorities in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. An Israeli court last week dismissed the family's appeal and decided to destroy their home of nearly three years in Shuafat refugee camp, a crowded and garbage-strewn district of east Jerusalem, as further punishment. The demolition could occur anytime in the coming days. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers work at the site of an alleged car-ramming attack near Beit Hagai, a Jewish settlement in the hills south of the large Palestinian city of Hebron, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. The Israeli military said security forces shot the Palestinian driver as he accelerated toward a military post. A soldier struck by the car was evacuated to a nearby hospital for treatment. There was no immediate word on the condition of the suspected Palestinian assailant. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Palestinians clash with their own security forces in a West Bank refugee camp, leaving 1 dead

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press