A mediator who worked on a 2011 Israeli prisoner exchange says Hamas' hostage-taking is 'unprecedented': 'What do they even do with them now that they have them?'

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Palestinians transport a captured Israeli civilian, center, from Kibbutz Kfar Azza into the Gaza Strip on Saturday, October 7, 2023.

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University of Pennsylvania 'should have moved faster' in condemning antisemitism, its president admits, days after Apollo CEO called for her resignation

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University of Pennsylvania campus in 2020.

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A landlord denied demanding a kidnapped Israeli woman's $600 a month rent after WhatsApp screenshots went viral

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People put up fliers and signs with the names and faces of people kidnapped during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 14, 2023.

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A Columbia professor called Hamas terror attacks 'awesome' and 'astounding' in an article. A petition for his removal has passed 34,000 signatures.

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Supporters of both Israel and Palestine at Columbia University.
Supporters of both Israel and Palestine engage with each other at Columbia University on October 12, 2023 in New York City.

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Patriarch of Jerusalem offers himself up in exchange for child hostages held by Hamas: 'There is total willingness on my part'

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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa in Gaza on June 14, 2021.

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Israel's richest man and his wife stepped down from a Harvard board, saying their faith in the school's leadership had been 'broken' over its response to the Hamas attacks

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Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023.
Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023.

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Gaza is using ice cream trucks to store bodies because morgues are running out of space: report

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People move the body of a Palestinian, who was killed in Israeli strikes, from an ice cream truck in the Gaza Strip.
People move the body of a Palestinian, who was killed in Israeli strikes, from an ice cream truck in the Gaza Strip.

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Biden says US troops don't need to be deployed into Israel, but guarantees to 'provide them everything they need'

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President Joe Biden.

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Biden says a Palestinian state should be established and Hamas eliminated entirely

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President Joe Biden at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington DC.

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Doctors affiliated with Israel's top public university treated a badly wounded Hamas gunman alongside victims of attacks

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An aerial view of Be'er Sheva, the home city of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Be'er Sheva, the home base of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

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