People wave flags as they accompany the casket of slain top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, during his funeral procession in Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday. Ibrahim Amro/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Scouts carry the coffins of two children, Hassan and Amira Muhammed Fadallah, during their funeral a day after they were killed in an Israeli strike on a building in Beirut's southern suburbs, on July 31, 2024. Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
2 assassinations in the last 48 hours may destabilize the entire Middle East
Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in a site hit by an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on July 13 in which the Israeli military claim they killed the head of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif. Jehad Alshrafi/AP hide caption
Demonstrators wave flags and hold pictures of the leader of the Palestinian militant Hamas group, Ismail Haniyeh, (C) and senior leader Saleh al-Arouri during a protest on July 31, 2024 in Beirut's Burj al-Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees, denouncing his killing. Fadel Itani/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Palestinian Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, center, flashes a victory sign as he is surrounded by a group of Iranian lawmakers after the swearing-in ceremony of newly-elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption
A masked demonstrator waves a flag of Hezbollah during a demonstration supporting the Palestinians in Beirut on Oct. 20, 2023. Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A view of buildings shows damage after what security sources said was a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, on Tuesday. Ahmad Al-Kerdi/Reuters hide caption
Blast rocks Beirut after Israel vows to strike at Hezbollah for rocket attack
Israeli security forces and medics transport casualties along with local residents, at a site where a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights area on Saturday. Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Children were main casualties in strikes in Gaza and near Israel's Northern border
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from parts of Khan Younis on Saturday, following an evacuation order by the Israeli army to leave parts of the southern area of Gaza Strip's second largest city. Abdel Kareem Hana/AP hide caption
Palestinian children are sitting on a street flooded with sewage water in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on July 23. Polio was detected in multiple samples of Gaza's wastewater a week ago and now infectious disease experts suspect there are mild cases of the disease already in the population. Majdi Fathi//NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
People stand amid rubble in the Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, on July 21. Mahmoud Zaki/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Sara Miliji, 12, from the border village of Naqoura, participates in an art class at a renovated movie theatre in the city of Tyre. Sara's family fled when their village was bombed. They now live along with hundreds of other families in a schoolroom turned into a shelter.
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Vice President Harris speaks after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the vice president's ceremonial office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House on July 25. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption
People hold pictures of Israeli hostages during a vigil on the National Mall on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Families of hostages are hopeful Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will agree to a ceasefire deal that would bring the hostages home. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial ceremony in Tel Aviv on June 18. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images hide caption
Palestinian detainees after they were released by the Israeli army, in Deir Al Balah, Gaza Strip, on June 20. Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
An Israeli airstrike ignited a huge fire at an oil storage facility at Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeidah on Saturday. Israel said the attack was in response to a drone strike by the Houthi militia that killed an Israeli man in Tel Aviv on Friday. /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A handout picture obtained from Yemen's Huthi Ansarullah Media Center show a huge column of fire erupting following reported strikes by Israeli fighter jets in the Yemeni rebel-held port city of Hodeidah on Saturday. Ansarullah Media Center/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles near the West Bank town of Beita Wahaj Bani Moufleh/AFP hide caption
Israeli police investigate the scene of a drone attack in Tel Aviv, Israel on Friday. Yemen's Houthi militia claimed responsibility for the blast that left one dead and several injured. Maya Levin for NPR hide caption
A worker cleans up on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing with southern Gaza on Wednesday. Israel says food is going into southern Gaza daily but is piling up on the Gaza side because the United Nations and aid groups aren't distributing it in a timely fashion. The U.N. says Israeli military operations and other war-related obstacles hamper its efforts. Maya Levin for NPR hide caption
Food aid is piling up inside Gaza. Here's why it's not reaching those in need
Members of the Lebanese army and the Italian contingent of the UNIFIL peacekeeping force inspect a house destroyed by an Israeli attack during a patrol in Yarine on June 10, 2024. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR hide caption
Rocket exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah hit new highs in the past week
Palestinians gather near the bodies of their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at a hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, on Saturday. Abdel Kareem Hana/AP hide caption