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“Sometimes I feel critical of the true-crime machine, of the audience with the bottomless appetite for misery. Our need to recreate these horrible human tragedies,” screenwriter Samy Burch says in an essay.
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Israel, which was founded in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has adamantly rejected genocide allegations against it as an antisemitic ‘blood libel.’
The United States, Egypt and Qatar have spent the past year trying to mediate an end to the 15-month war and secure the release of dozens of hostages.
One strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza, the most isolated and heavily damaged part of the territory.
Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza killed 14 people including children; the bombing of a northern hospital wounded six patients.
Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. have renewed efforts to broker a cease-fire deal in recent days, and mediators have said there appears to be more willingness from both sides.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cease-fire would not begin until Hamas provides the names of the three hostages it was set to release later Sunday in exchange for scores of Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas near a deal to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip.
Israel hit Gaza in multiple strikes, killing at least 33, including children; one attack hit a home, killing eight in one family, Palestinian health officials said.
The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect Sunday morning, Qatar’s foreign ministry says.