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A protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to push the Israeli government to do more to secure the release of the hostages held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas.Credit...Ilan Rosenberg/ReutersFor the second week in a row, thousands gathered in front of the central military headquarters in Tel Aviv to express frustration with Israel’s response to the over 200 hostages held in Gaza and to urge the government to do more to rescue them.Demonstrators carried posters showing pictures of the captives and listened to family members share stories of loss. It was the largest rally in…

After the Saudi and Iranian leaders finished their speeches, they left the main conference hall for a bilateral meeting.Prince Mohammed’s welcoming of Mr. Raisi amounted to a remarkable departure for the Saudi leader, who once bluntly warned Iran not to pursue expansionist policies in the region. “We won’t wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia,” he said in a televised interview in 2017. “Instead, we will work so that the battle is for them in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia.”He also once likened Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to Hitler in interviews with American news outlets. “Because…

Gaza’s main hospital was collapsing on Saturday as the Israeli forces surrounding it began closing in, and an almost complete loss of power and oxygen resulted in the deaths of a premature baby in an incubator and of a number of other patients, according to the hospital director and the Gaza health ministry.Without fuel to run generators, the hospital, Al-Shifa, in Gaza City, has been plunged into darkness and its medical equipment has stopped working. For weeks — amid a cutoff of fuel and electricity by Israel — it has been relying on backup generators and a dwindling supply of…

For years, Mohammad Matar worked on constructing pipelines that moved water across the Gaza Strip — from northern Beit Lahia to southern Rafah. Now, he can barely access water himself.Mr. Matar, a 35-year-old civil engineer, was reached by phone on Thursday evening in Gaza City, where he and his family have chosen to remain even as Israeli ground forces continue their relentless assault on Hamas.In a city increasingly cut off from the rest of the world, Mr. Matar described days full of desperation and fear.“I have watched a lot of horror movies, but I have never watched a horror movie…