Conflict

Balloons are released to mark the second birthday of hostage Kfir Bibas as demonstrators hold portraits of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a protest calling for their immediate release in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Members of the Abu Sheiban family salvage what they can of their belongings from under rubble of their destroyed home, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Manual Aslim walks through the rubble of her destroyed home, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

FILE - Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, responds to reporters during a meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

An Armenian Christian priest walks along an alley near to St. James Cathedral at the Armenian quarter in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Israeli soldiers stand next to armored vehicles parked near the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights from Syria, in the town of Majdal Shams, Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

FILE - Rescue workers and people gather on the rubble of a house hit in an Israeli airstrike in Baalchmay village east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Nov. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. Monday Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

John Olsen, of Ankeny, Iowa, stands in line for early voting at the Polk County Election Office, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Children from Gymnasium No. 6 head to a basement set up with classrooms during an air alert in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sept. 3, 2024. The city is building a dozen subterranean schools designed to be radiation- and bomb-proof. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

FILE - A TV screen shows an image of soldiers believed to be from North Korea stand in line to receive supplies from Russia during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Oct. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

FILE - Commissioner-General of the U.N. agency for Palestinian Refugees Philippe Lazzarini speaks during a news conference in Beirut, Lebanon, May 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)