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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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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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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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Jordan Prince Hamzah bin al Hussein delivers his speech during the plenary session at the Bella Center in Copenhagen on December 17, 2009 on the 11th day of the COP15 UN Climate Change Conference. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP via Getty Images)

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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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on February 1, 2011 in Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian army has said it will not fire on protestors as they gather in large numbers in central Cairo.

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CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 9: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (6th L), Prime Minister of Egypt Sherif Ismail Mohamed (4th L), Egyptian Minister of Defence Sedki Sobhy (7th L) and other military and civilian officials attend a symposium titled "Counter Terrorism" and "National Will" and organized by Egyptian Armed Forces in Cairo, Egypt on February 9, 2017. (Photo by Egyptian Presidency - Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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CAIRO, EGYPT - FEBRUARY 12: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Cairo, Egypt on February 12, 2022. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with private sector CEOs in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. Chief executives from the automotive and technology sectors were involved in the meeting to discuss the administrations $1.75 trillion Build Back Better spending legislation. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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Palestinian queue at stand-pipe to fill plastic containers with clean water in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip 04 September 2007. Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon today threatened to cut electricity, water and fuel supplies into Gaza if militants in the Hamas-ruled territory continued to fire rockets into Israel. AFP PHOTO /MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Retired Egyptian journalist Tawfik Ghanem (center) was recently arrested on terrorism charges. (Photo: Flickr/Ahmed Abd El-Fatah)

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