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Female Israeli soldiers attend the funeral for Israeli Defense Forces paramedic Sgt. Agam Naim, the first woman soldier killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, at the cemetery in Kibbutz Mishmarot, Israel, Wednesday, Israel, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

An Israeli military helicopter, carrying four Israeli female soldiers released from Gaza, arrives to the Beilinson hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Relatives and friends of people killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, react to the news of the hostages' release, as they gather in Tel Aviv, Israel on Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Relatives and friends of people killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, react to the news of the hostages' release, as they gather in Tel Aviv, Israel on Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Sara Chen weeps over the grave of her longtime friend, Staff Sergeant Avraham Nerya Cohen, who was killed in action on Oct. 7, 2023, as Israel marks the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Oct. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Hadas Kalderon is overcome by emotion in the ruins of her mother’s home in Kibbutz Nir Oz, southern Israel on Oct. 30, 2023. The kibbutz was overran by Hamas on Oct. 7, killing or capturing a quarter of its community, including Carmela Dan, Kalderon’s mother and niece, Noya, 12. Her children Erez, 12, Sahar, 16, were returned in November but Ofer, 53, the children’s father, is still in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border, Israel on Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Eyal Barad pauses in the safe room where he sheltered with his family as Hamas rampaged through his community, killing and capturing a quarter of his neighbors, in Kibbutz Nir Oz on Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A Palestinian boy stands in the ruins of his family apartment as he films vehicles torched in a rampage by settlers in Hawara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, Feb. 28, 2023, days after two Israelis were killed by a Palestinian gunman, triggering a rampage in which Israeli settlers torched dozens of cars and homes in the Palestinian town and one Palestinian was killed. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ahmed, a Palestinian shepherd, poses for a portrait in a hamlet in the South Hebron Hills, Friday, May 17, 2024. He says he was threatened while grazing his sheep in late February by settler Yinon Levi, one of 19 hard-line Israeli settlers and entities sanctioned by the United States, Britain, the EU and Canada for alleged attacks and harassment against Palestinians. Levi held him at gunpoint, recounted all the places where he'd forced people off their land and threatened to kill him if he returned. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A Palestinian youth ties his friend’s scarf before a weekly protest in the West Bank town of Kafr Qaddum, Jan. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli security forces respond to a stabbing attack in the town of Elad, Israel, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Friends and relatives of Israeli reservist Ariel Mordechay Wollfstal attend his funeral at a cemetery in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion on Jan. 23, 2024. Wollfstal, 28, was killed during Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Mujahid Abadi, 24, recovers from gunshot wounds and burns at the Ibn Sina Specialized Hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, on June 25, 2024. The Palestinian man stepped outside his uncle's house in the West Bank Saturday morning to check if the Israeli military was in the area. Hours later, he found himself strapped to the hood of an Israeli military vehicle, bleeding out under the blazing sun after being shot twice by Israeli forces. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli security forces detain a Palestinian man during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan just outside Jerusalem's Old City, ahead of Friday prayers March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A Muslim worshipper is searched by Israeli Police at Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem before being denied access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Maya Palty, left, comforts Efrat Machikawa, who both have relatives in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip since their capture from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, as families of hostages call out to their loved ones on loudspeakers in hopes that the hostages will hear, at the Gaza border in Kibbutz Nirim, southern Israel on Jan. 11, 2024. Maya’s relative is Elad Katzir, 47; Efrat’s relative is Gadi Moses, 79. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men inspect a damaged road after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit in Oct. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

An Israeli police officer searches an activist before she is taken away by police car after blocking a road along with a delegation of American and Israeli rabbis from Rabbis for Ceasefire marching towards the Erez crossing to the Gaza Strip with food aid for Gaza civilians and to call for a ceasefire, in southern Israel on April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli Defense Forces soldiers mourn at the grave of Sgt. First Class (res.) Roi Sasson, who was killed in action in the Gaza Strip, during his funeral at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Nov. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli soldiers overlook the Gaza Strip from a tank, as seen from southern Israel on Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Parachutes carrying humanitarian aid dropped from an aircraft into Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel on March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli soldiers run for cover as a siren sounds warning of incoming rockets fired from Gaza strip in a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border southern Israel, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, and calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, confers with Minister of Transport and Road Safety Miri Regev, as lawmakers convene in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, for a vote on a contentious plan to overhaul the country's legal system, in Jerusalem, Feb. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

An injured woman cries out as she is assisted during an anti-government protest outside of the Beirut municipality in Lebanon, Jan. 10, 2020. Scuffles broke out between anti—government protesters calling for the ouster of the city’s mayor and the governor of the province, and supporters of outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who handpicked them. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A supporter of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah wears the words "powerful revenge" on her hand, ahead of the leader's televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli police inspect the site of a shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Israeli medics evacuate a woman from the site of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Central Bus Station, Sept. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Police handcuff an Israeli woman detained at a protest near the President's residence against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in Jerusalem, March 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

A sleepy Bonita wears protective goggles as she settles into her mother's shoulder near the White House, June 23, 2020, amid continuing anti-racism demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was restrained by police in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
