Israeli-Hamas cease-fire talks remain deadlocked
Voice of America
A man walks next to a silhouetted Israeli soldier holding a rifle and posters of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, at Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 5, 2024. A Palestinian child transporting pieces of wood walks past a building destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on May 3, 2024.
Israel and Hamas remained deadlocked Sunday on how to halt nearly seven months of fighting in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people and forced more than a million Palestinians from their homes.
Monica Johnston, a burn and wound care nurse from the U.S. city of Portland, Oregon, with the Palestinian American Medical Association, monitors a patient who sustained major burns on May 8, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza. Dr. Ammar Ghanem of Detroit, volunteering with the Syrian American Medical Society, second from right, is pictured May 7, 2024, in Khan Younis, Gaza, with other doctors at the European General Hospital, where they had been since early May.
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2014, photo, Turkish riot police use water cannons and tear gas to disperse people protesting against Turkey's policy in Syria, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. FILE - Youths set fire to barricades within sight of Turkish army tanks stationed in Diyarbakir, hours after violent protests by Kurds over the Islamic State group's advance on Kobani, Syria, Oct. 8, 2014.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a welcoming ceremony in front of the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on May 16, 2024. (Russian state agency Sputnik via AFP) Russia's national flag flies beside the Chinese flag in front of Tiananmen Gate next to Tiananmen Square during the state visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on May 16, 2024.