Palestinian medics listen to a man as the wounded are brought to the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahia in Gaza following Israeli bombardment on Tuesday. The hospital is situated just a few miles south of the Indonesian hospital, which was hit Monday by Israeli shelling, according to Palestinian officials. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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The owner of Bawadi Mediterranean Grill in Washington, D.C., Khalid Mekki, recently lost family members in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Nina Kravinsky hide caption
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Israel's President Isaac Herzog meet in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday following the announcement of an extension of the truce between Israel and Hamas just before it was due to expire. Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Thai nationals ride a bus as they leave Shamir hospital in Ramle, Israel, on Wednesday, on their way back to Thailand after being released from Hamas' custody. Maya Levin/AP hide caption
From left to right, top: former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former President Donald Trump, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. From left to right, bottom: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and Vivek Ramaswamy. Joe Raedle/Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images; Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images; Scott Olson/Getty Images; Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode. Author photo by Eva Garmendia hide caption
Travel is supposed to expand your horizons... but it's complicated
Israelis gather to witness the first batch of released hostages being brought to Schneider Hospital via helicopter on Nov. 24. Maya Levin for NPR hide caption
Israeli protesters call for the release of the Bibas family, whose members are being held hostage in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday. Ariel Schalit/AP hide caption
Nine-year-old Emily Hand, a released hostage, reunites with her father Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, in Israel. The Israeli Army /Associated Press hide caption
Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar. MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Hisham Awartani with his father, Ali Awartani, and mother, Elizabeth Price. On Saturday, Awartani was one of three men of Palestinian descent shot in Burlington, Vermont. Elizabeth Price hide caption
Michal Worke, an Israeli artist with Ethiopian roots, shares her studio space and artwork. Much of her work is devoted to a kidnapped Ethiopian Israeli citizen who has been held in Gaza for over nine years by Hamas. Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR Images hide caption
Palestinian prisoner Khalil Zama, right, hugs his mother after being released from an Israeli jail in exchange for Israeli hostages released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip, at his home in Halhul village north Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Monday. Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
This picture taken from a position in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing in the the Palestinian territory after an Israeli strike on November 21, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. John MacDougall/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Civilian deaths are being dismissed as 'crisis actors' in Gaza and Israel
In an undated photo released by Zodiac Maritime, the tanker Central Park is seen. Zodiac Maritime/AP hide caption
Emily Hand, 9, shown with her father Tom Hand, was one of the Israeli hostage released Saturday by Hamas. Israeli authorities first thought she was killed in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, but the Israeli military later determined she was alive. She was reunited with her father in the early hours of Sunday. Israeli military via AP hide caption
A Red Cross vehicle carrying Israeli hostages drives by at the Gaza Strip crossing into Egypt in Rafah on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. Fatima Shbair/AP hide caption
Israa Jaabis, center, a Palestinian prisoner released by Israel, is hugged by relatives as she arrives home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, early Sunday Nov. 26, 2023. Mahmoud Illean/AP hide caption
People participate in a show of solidarity with hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, at "hostages square" in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday. Leo Correa/AP hide caption
A mother and her children react to the news that Hanna Katzir, who the Palestine Islamic Jihad claimed died in captivity, is among the 13 Israelis released. They are watching the news on their phone outside the Museum of Tel Aviv on Friday. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images hide caption
We came to the Hitten refugee camp in Jordan to ask how people were feeling. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption
We visited a camp for Palestinians and heard despair for Gaza — and anger at America
Smoke and fire rise above buildings during Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 23, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images hide caption