An ambulance believed to be carrying wounded people — after multiple explosions were heard during the funeral of four Hezbollah fighters who were killed Tuesday after their pagers exploded — drives down a street in a southern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday. Bilal Hussein/AP hide caption
Gold Apollo's offices in northern Taiwan. Emily Feng/NPR hide caption
A Lebanese police officer inspects a car damaged by an exploding pager in Beirut on Tuesday. Hundreds of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously. The group blamed Israel. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
Civil Defense first-responders carry a wounded man whose handheld pager exploded at al-Zahraa hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2024. Hussein Malla/AP hide caption
Shlomy Green, 37, and wife Inbal Green, 40, pack their home in Rishon Letsiyon, Israel, on July 11. The couple decided to leave Israel with their four-year-old daughter Riley and move to Thailand. Maya Levin for NPR hide caption
A health worker administers an oral polio vaccine in Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip. The World Health Organization says that in less than two weeks, they’ve helped administer more than 550,000 polio vaccines to children across the enclave. Now they're gearing up for the second dose. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Civil defense teams and others carry out search and rescue operations after an Israeli strike on a school that was sheltering families at Nuseirat Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Samhan Shreiteh walks around his house to show the new tanks he has to gather water. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Palestinians look at the destruction following an Israeli airstrike in al-Muwasi, a designated humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Tuesday. The Israeli military said it was targeting a Hamas command and control center and killed three Hamas commanders in the strike. Hamas did not confirm the deaths. Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli airstrike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Muwasi, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Abdel Kareem Hana/AP/AP hide caption
Palestinians march to honor Turkish American activist Aysenur Eygi in Nablus, in the Israeli- occupied West Bank, on Sunday. Witnesses say Israeli forces shot Eygi dead during a pro-Palestinian demonstration Friday. Raneen Sawafta/Reuters hide caption
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Armed Palestinian militants attend a group funeral of people killed in a raid by Israeli forces, in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, on May 23. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A Palestinian family mourns the death of their daughter, who was killed in an Israeli attack as she was heading to play while wearing her roller skates, in Gaza City, Gaza, on Sept. 4. Mahmoud ssa/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption
Husam Abukhedeir, a Palestinian neurosurgeon, left his native Gaza for the United Arab Emirates last November because he felt that conditions caused by the war had stripped him of his power as a physician — and endangered his family. Nearly 9 months have passed, and Abukhedeir does not see an end in sight to the suffering Christopher Pike for NPR/Christopher Pike for NPR hide caption
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff is pictured at an event on Capitol Hill in February. On Tuesday, he spoke to the Adas Israel Congregation about the hostages who were recently found killed in the Gaza Strip. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption
People walk past a billboard showing a portrait of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (top) next to Palestine Square in the Tehran on Aug. 12, 2024. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Mourners gather by the grave of killed US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin whose body was recovered with five other hostages in Gaza, during the funeral at Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem on September 2. Gil Cohen-Magen/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An Israeli soldier walks on a tank near the border of the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on Aug. 21. Amir Levy/Getty Images hide caption
Demonstrators demanded a cease-fire deal and the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip after the deaths of six hostages in the Palestinian territory, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Monday. Ohad Zwigenberg/AP hide caption
Protesters lift flags and placards around symbolic coffins, during an anti-government rally calling for the release of the captives held by Palestinian militants in Gaza since October, in Tel Aviv on September 1, 2024. JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images hide caption