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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
Palestinians perform Friday noon prayers on the last day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, near a tent serving as a makeshift mosque in southern Gaza's Rafah. Regional tensions have been stoked by the Gaza war which began after Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack against Israel left 1,170 people dead, mostly civilians, according to Israeli figures. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 33,545 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden urges Hamas to move on a proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, while calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow more aid into the Palestinian territory. "It's now up to Hamas, they need to move on the proposal that's been made," Biden tells a press conference at the White House, adding that the amount of aid getting into Gaza following a tense call with Netanyahu was "not enough." SOUNDBITE
Images of Rafah in the south of Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war that has killed thousands and devastated the Gaza Strip enters its seventh month, with talks towards a truce and a hostage release deal expected to resume in Cairo. IMAGES
Muslim worshippers perform the last Friday prayers in Ramadan at Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VID34NM4NG_EN
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