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People walk along Gaza's coastal al-Rashid Street after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip north into Gaza City on January 27, 2025. Displaced Palestinians began returning to northern Gaza on January 27, an official at the territory's Hamas-run Interior Ministry told AFP, after a breakthrough in negotiations between Hamas and Israel. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

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Muhammad (C) carry the body of his 14-year-old son Omar Muhammad Saadeh Rabee during his funeral in the village of Turmus Ayya, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 7, 2025. A Palestinian official told AFP that Israeli forces shot dead a teenager holding US citizenship in the occupied West Bank on April 7, while the Israeli military said it had killed a "terrorist" who threw rocks at cars. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS / AFP)

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AMMAN, JORDAN - NOVEMBER 15: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT - "ROYAL HASHEMITE COURT / HANDOUT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Jordanian King Abdullah II makes a speech at the parliament building during the inauguration of the new term of the Jordanian Parliament, in Amman, Jordan on November 15, 2021. In his speech, the king gave a message of support to the Palestinians. (Photo by Royal Hashemite Court / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Yemeni rescuers transport the bodies of victims pulled from the rubble of a building hit in US strikes in the northern province of Saada on April 28, 2025. Huthi media in Yemen said on April 28 that US strikes targeted a migrant detention centre in Saada, killing at least 68 people. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.

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