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Israeli forces and Hamas militants battle in refugee camp

WARNING: Graphic content. Israel and Hamas on Tuesday closed a deal to temporarily halt their devastating six-week war for dozens of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip to be freed in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

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Families of hostages captured by Hamas militants during the Oct. 7 attack have met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet.
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A wounded Palestinian child is carried into the Nasser Hospital following an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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A wounded Palestinian woman is carried into the Nasser Hospital following an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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A wounded Palestinian woman receives medical treatment at the Nasser Hospital following an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday, Nov. 21. Israel's Cabinet was convening Tuesday to consider a possible deal for the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a temporary halt to Israel's military offensive in Gaza. Hamas captured the hostages in an Oct. 7 cross-border attack that killed at least 1,200 people and triggered an Israeli invasion of Gaza.
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Families and friends of about 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday, Nov. 21. Israel's Cabinet was convening Tuesday to consider a possible deal for the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a temporary halt to Israel's military offensive in Gaza. Hamas captured the hostages in an Oct. 7 cross-border attack that killed at least 1,200 people and triggered an Israeli invasion of Gaza.
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President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting on combating fentanyl, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 21, in Washington.
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Palestinians pray for their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue of al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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A woman plasters photos of Israeli children from Kibbutz Afar Azza missing and held captive in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel Tuesday, Nov. 21. The hostages, mostly Israeli citizens, were kidnapped during an Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel and have been held in Gaza since then.
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Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the town of Sderot, southern Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel, as it is seen from Rmeish village in south Lebanon, Tuesday, Nov. 21. Tension has been rising along the Lebanon-Israel border since the Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on southern Israel.
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Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Tuesday, Nov. 21.
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Palestinians transport flour distributed by the U.N. during the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Tuesday, Nov. 21.

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