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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - DECEMBER 4: Palestinian teacher Doha al-Attar (30) is viewed with her students as she continues to teach them in the rubble of her school, which was mostly destroyed in the Israeli army attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 4, 2024. Despite the limited and difficult conditions, teacher Attar strives to ensure that her students are not deprived of education. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Gazans Want from a Ceasefire

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 26: A former domestic worker hangs her laundry to dry on September 26, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon accounts some 250,000 migrant women from African and Asian countries and working in private households. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are subjected to the kafala system, a private migration sponsorship system in Gulf countries which exponentially increases the risk of labour exploitation, forced labour and trafficking. Lebanon's economic crisis as well the August 4 blast has left a significant number of migrant workers in a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Aline Deschamps/Getty Images)

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - DECEMBER 4: Palestinian teacher Doha al-Attar (30) is viewed with her students as she continues to teach them in the rubble of her school, which was mostly destroyed in the Israeli army attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 4, 2024. Despite the limited and difficult conditions, teacher Attar strives to ensure that her students are not deprived of education. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - JULY 10: A woman holds a baby in her arms as Palestinian families begin fleeing again from shelters near the Al-Mawasi area as the Israeli army expands its ground offensive and tanks reach southwestern Khan Yunis, Gaza, marking their first displacement in nearly a year and a half, on July 10, 2025. (Photo by Hani Alshaer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

What Gazans Want from a Ceasefire

BEIRUT, LEBANON - SEPTEMBER 26: A former domestic worker hangs her laundry to dry on September 26, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon accounts some 250,000 migrant women from African and Asian countries and working in private households. Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are subjected to the kafala system, a private migration sponsorship system in Gulf countries which exponentially increases the risk of labour exploitation, forced labour and trafficking. Lebanon's economic crisis as well the August 4 blast has left a significant number of migrant workers in a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Aline Deschamps/Getty Images)

Gulf — Fiction as Testimony to Middle East Injustice

KHAN YUNIS, GAZA - DECEMBER 4: Palestinian teacher Doha al-Attar (30) is viewed with her students as she continues to teach them in the rubble of her school, which was mostly destroyed in the Israeli army attacks in Khan Yunis, Gaza on December 4, 2024. Despite the limited and difficult conditions, teacher Attar strives to ensure that her students are not deprived of education. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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$(L to R) US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting together at Riyadh's Diriyah Palace on February 18, 2025. Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result in a breakthrough. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein / POOL / AFP)$

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A man walks past an unexploded tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher embedded in the ground after shelling in Lysychansk, Lugansk region on April 11, 2022. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP)

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ISTANBUL, TURKIYE - MARCH 29: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks ahead of the peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine at Dolmabahce Presidential Office in Istanbul, Turkiye on March 29, 2022. (Photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - FEBRUARY 24: Dubai city skyline is seen from The Five hotel on The Palm on February 24, 2021 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai is open for business, excepting foreign tourists and gradually kickstarting its economy embarking on one of the world’s most aggressive vaccination programs. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

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