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It's been 100 days since the attack by Hamas in southern Israel.
100 days of grief and protest.
Israel and Hamas have been at war for six months.
It's been exactly a year. One year after the horror.
It's been nearly 600 days since Israel's war on Gaza began. 600 days since Hamas militants staged their murderous attack on October 7th. 600 days and they are still holding 58 Israeli hostages. The war continues day after day, month after month. Now, over a year and a half old, though, it feels like it's at a new breaking point.
— In Gaza, concerns of famine grow, which is why chaos broke out at the opening of an aid distribution site in Gaza that's run by a U.S.-backed group.
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