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“This thing is not appropriate in the community we live in,” said Aya Sbeih, a Palestinian member of the group that was meeting in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Combatants for Peace. “So I keep it a secret.”Many peace groups have been struggling since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, which have hardened the positions of many Israelis and Palestinians. But some activists, including those in Combatants for Peace, have quietly started to resume their work. Ms. Sbeih, a member of the group for seven years, said she had come to several recent meetings with newfound doubts about peace activism, at least in the current climate. Some said they were fed up with despair and wanted to latch onto a glimmer of hope.

Persons: ”, Aya Sbeih, Sbeih, “ Organizations: West Bank, Peace Locations: Bethlehem, Gaza

There’s a lot of anxiety.”The Israeli government and Hamas announced Wednesday morning that they would uphold a brief cease-fire in Gaza to allow for the release of the hostages. “I’m trying to take care not to be happy too quickly,” Ms. Zailer said on Tuesday. His family in Israel still does not know where he and his brother are being held, whether they are with their parents — or even if they are still alive, Ms. Zailer said. “We are being torn apart,” Ms. Zailer said, calling it an impossible situation. At Kibbutz Nir Oz, 76 people were taken hostage on Oct. 7, according to Irit Lahav, a kibbutz spokeswoman.

Persons: we’ve, ”, Roman, Benjamin Netanyahu’s, Yifat Zailer —, Shiri Bibas, Nir Oz, Bibas’s, Yarden Bibas, Ariel, Kfir —, “ I’m, ” Ms, Zailer, —, Bibas, — Yarden, Irit, Sheffa Phillips, Yagil Yaakov, Yair Yaakov, Yagil, Israel, Phillips, Bahat, David Blumenfeld, Carmit Hoomash, Patrick Kingsley Organizations: Hamas, Palestinian Locations: Israel, Gaza, Be’eri

delivery kits include instructions on reducing the risk of infection for pregnant women who may have to deliver their own babies in a crisis. And as their deliveries approach, many of the pregnant women “don’t know where they’re going to be in the next minute or the next day,” Mr. Allen said. The group said in a statement that women in Gaza have been losing their pregnancies from the stress and shock of the war. Itimad Abu Ward, a midwife and nurse who works as a public health officer for the W.H.O., was among those forced to flee northern Gaza. She said trying to care for pregnant women during the chaotic journey south was near impossible.

Persons: Israel, Dominic Allen, “, ” Mr, Allen, Itimad Abu Ward, Khan Younis, Abu Ward, Khan, ” Organizations: United Nations, United Nations Population Fund, Planning, Protection Association, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Nasser Hospital, Times, Training Center, Medicines Locations: Gaza, Egypt, Israel, Jabaliya

My children are missing. And there is a huge gap right now between what the government can and do to support and what the civilians are doing on support. Using techniques of sound and using techniques of A.I., by identifying the specific fabric of their underwear, we were able to find another video where you don’t see his face. Those are kinds of information that is tragic information, but it’s very important for the families to know that. People are coming day after day, making sure that we find another person, another person.

Persons: “ We’re Organizations: Facebook Locations: Israel, Gaza

We knew we had to go to the safe room, but we weren’t worried because it happened all the time. They were whispering, “Mom, I’m afraid.” “Mom, I’m hungry.” “Mom, what are the bad guys doing here? We took a shirt and put it on my kids’ faces because I didn’t know. I didn’t want them to see bodies lying, and the kibbutz burned, and people they know lying in the streets. I live in Nir Oz my whole life and it was my worst nightmare that terrorist people will go in the kibbutz.

Persons: It’s, ”, Nir Oz, “ Ma, Where’s, Omer Organizations: Netflix

The city of Sderot, a mile from Gaza, was hit on Saturday by a brutal terrorist attack by Palestinian gunmen. An analysis of available footage shows an estimated 20 civilians were killed across multiple locations, though the toll could climb. Officials said that about a dozen soldiers, firefighters and police had also been killed. The footage shows the indiscriminate ways gunmen killed civilians and how Israeli police and military responded. Two more were killed in a van and a car around the corner and 100 yards from there.

Persons: Menachem Begin Organizations: The Times, Motorists, Workers Locations: Sderot, Gaza

We were corresponding until she wrote that they’re inside the house. And she was hiding in her safe room. She — about the stuff she should have had in the safe room, like a toilet or a knife. I just – I love you.” And I wrote her, “I love you.” And that’s it. I’m in touch with so many friends of hers and colleagues, and they’re working with me because she was so meaningful for them, and she’s meaningful for me also.

Persons: “ Locations: Gaza

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