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Trucks carrying aid enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, after Israel and Hamas agreed to extend by one more day a truce under which hostages are exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and aid flows into the war-devastated Strip. IMAGES
A Red Cross convoy carrying four hostages held captive by Hamas in Gaza since October 7th crosses the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing to Egypt. IMAGES
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo, amid fighting between Israel and Hamas that has raged for more than five weeks. IMAGES
Protesters rally outside the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem to demand the return of hostages taken by Hamas. Around 1,400 people, mainly civilians, have been killed in Israel in Hamas’s unprecedented attack and more than 240 have been taken hostage, according to Israeli officials. Since then, Israel has relentlessly bombarded Gaza and sent in ground troops in an assault the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory says has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly women and children. IMAGES
In Geneva, outside the United Nations headquarters, protesters call for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. IMAGES
"We've won": a demonstrator shouts after a Paris court suspends a ban that had been put on the protest in Place de la Republique in central Paris. Thousands had already gathered for the rally, which started off peacefully, but later saw clashes with police, who used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. IMAGES