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A framework agreed upon by the United States, Israel, Qatar and Egypt proposes a six-week cease-fire for Hamas to exchange some hostages for Palestinian prisoners.

The United States, Israel, Egypt and Qatar sketched out a bare-bones framework for the proposed arrangement during weekend talks in Paris, the officials said.

The very weapons that Israeli forces have used to enforce a blockade of Gaza are now being used against them.

The three U.S. service members killed Sunday were the first known American military deaths since Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza began. The U.N. aid organization there said it will soon run out of money.

More than a dozen countries have suspended support for UNRWA since Israel accused some of the agency’s workers of participating in the Oct. 7 terror attacks or in their aftermath.

More than two dozen U.S. service members were injured in the strike, which underscored the growing turmoil in the region since the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October.

The secretary general, António Guterres, said money to aid Palestinians would run out next month, leaving hundreds of thousands without clean water, food and other necessities.

The number of countries that said they would temporarily stop sending money to UNRWA is growing after the agency said it had fired employees accused by Israel of participating in the Oct. 7 attacks.

The memorial will list the names of those freed in 1848, a design some say does more to glorify France for abolition than to atone for slavery itself.

As documentaries and series about teams proliferate, it’s easy to pine for the ones that offered the clearest windows into the game.