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TEL AVIV, Israel -- Hamas hastened Tuesday to ease the pressure on a fragile ceasefire in its war with Israel by returning the bodies of more dead hostages after an Israeli military agency said it would slash aid deliveries to Gaza by half over concerns that the militant group was handing remains slower than agreed. The International Committee of the Red Cross said late Tuesday that it handed over to Israeli authorities four deceased hostages "in line with the ceasefire agreement."

It is difficult, in good conscience, to fully celebrate the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas when so many civilians have died in the conflict over the past two years. The horror of October 7, when Hamas slaughtered more than 1,100 Israelis and took several hundred hostages, led to what has been rightly characterized as a genocide: a total war against the people of Gaza, one that has killed more than 67,000 and immiserated almost every living Palestinian.

Palestinian sources told Al Jazeera Arabic that the 28-year-old, who had gained prominence for his videos covering the war, was shot and killed by members of an armed militia while covering clashes in the city's Sabra neighbourhood. list of 3 itemsend of list Al Jazeera's Sanad agency verified footage published by reporters and activists showing his body in a press flak jacket on what appeared to be the back of a truck. He had been missing since Sunday morning.

Israel must allow tents and caravans to immediately be delivered to the Gaza Strip, a United Nations expert says, as displaced Palestinians returning to the north of the bombarded territory have found their homes and neighbourhoods destroyed. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, said people are finding nothing but rubble in areas from which Israeli forces have withdrawn in northern Gaza.

The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has been met with joy and relief across the Middle East and beyond. Over the past two years, outrage at Israel's war in Gaza has erupted across Europe and the US, manifesting itself in university campus protests, massive marches through countless capitals and the disruption of major sporting events. Even as hopes rise of an end to the war, international anger over Israel's actions in Gaza, which have been deemed a genocide by a UN commission of inquiry, remains raw, as evidenced by last weekend's huge rallies in Spain and Italy.

It is six o'clock in the morning on Saturday 7 October 2023. Half awake, I call out in a hoarse voice to my two sisters who are sleeping on their beds next to me: Enas, Remas, wake up you have school. We were not to know it yet, but this was the day when everything would change. The day when horrific events across the border in Israel would lead to a war that became a gateway to hell itself.

Large crowds of Palestinians have started walking back to their homes - or what's left of them - in Gaza City as the Israeli military pulls its forces back from parts of central Gaza. We look at what comes next, including the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and potential sticking points for the truce. Also, Australia signs major security deals with India and Papua New Guinea, raising concerns for China.

On November 7, 2023, children stood before cameras at al-Shifa Hospital and spoke in English, not their mother tongue, but in the language of those they thought might save them. We want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children, one boy said. We want medicine, food and education. We want to live as other children live.

A qualified doctor, he has recently been evacuated from Gaza to begin his studies at Queen Mary University of London on a fully funded, government-backed Chevening scholarship. As well as his work in hospitals, he has been striving for months on behalf of the dozens of Palestinian scholars like himself who have been stranded in war-torn Gaza awaiting evacuation by the British government to take up places in UK universities.

Last Friday, during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, CNN commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones claimed that Iran and Qatar are running a disinformation campaign to manipulate young Americans into caring about Gaza. To make his point, he crudely imitated what he said appears on their social media feeds: Dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby, Diddy, dead Gaza baby, dead Gaza baby. The audience laughed.

Fear and anxiety shape her childhood. In Gaza, children do not merely experience fear amid the constant bombardment and death. Fear has come to redefine the simplest concepts in every aspect of their lives. When my three-year-old niece, Rose, touched a wall for the first time, it was as if she were touching something alien something that didn't belong to her world. Her tiny hand reached out hesitantly, then recoiled suddenly, as if struck by an electric shock. Will it fall? she whispered, trembling.

Nearly 10,000 Palestinians have been reported missing by their families in Gaza, their fates unknown, with likely thousands more nowhere to be found because they were killed with their entire family unit, health officials have said. According to Gaza Health Ministry information official Zaher al-Wahidi, about 6,000 people are believed by their families to be buried under the rubble in Gaza - the result of Israel leveling 70 percentof buildings in Gaza, including 92 percent of residential buildings, in its genocide.

Pope Leo's debut overseas trip will be to Turkey and Lebanon, where he is expected to make appeals for peace across the Middle East, the Vatican has announced. Leo, who was elected pontiff in May after the death of Pope Francis, will visit Turkey between 27 and 30 November and Lebanon from 30 November until 2 December. Matteo Bruni, the Vatican's spokesperson, said on Tuesday the pontiff had accepted the invitation of the heads of state and ecclesiastical authorities in Turkey and Lebanon.