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At least 120,000 people attend a rally for hostages in Tel Aviv according to the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum Headquarters. The hostages were taken by Hamas following the militant group's unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel. Marking the 100 days mark since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the rally will go on for 24 hours until the evening of 14 January. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators gather in Washington, DC in solidarity with Palestinians and to call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war as fighting rages in Gaza for a 29th day since Hamas militants stormed across the Israeli border and, according to Israeli officials, killed more than 1,400 people. Since then, Israel has relentlessly bombarded the Gaza Strip and sent in ground troops, with the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory saying 9,488 people have been killed, about two-thirds of them women and children. IMAGES
The casquet of slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, shrouded in a Palestinian flag, is carried into the Mohammad Ibn Abd al Wahhab Mosque in Doha as hundreds line up for the funeral prayers before his burial. Haniyeh was killed in Tehran in an attack blamed on Israel, deepening fears of a wider war. IMAGES
Outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague, Netherlands, as the prosecutor Karim Khan, says he is seeking arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes including "starvation", "wilful killing", and "extermination and/or murder". IMAGES
Gazans in Rafah perform Friday prayers at the site of a destroyed mosque. IMAGES
Cambridge University students protest in support of Palestinians over Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza, setting up a camp and erecting banners on the lawns outside a college, as British campuses echo demonstrations on US campuses that have spread to several countries. According to a local media reports, the encampment was set up on May 6. IMAGES