US President Joe Biden spoke by phone Friday with Judith Tai Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter, Natalie Raanan, the two American hostages who were released by Hamas earlier today.
Protests erupted around the Arab world on Friday as the Gaza war raged and an Israeli ground operation with the potential to displace millions of Palestinians loomed.
About 1.4 million people have been displaced in Gaza, and more than 544,000 are sheltering in 147 UN-designated emergency shelters that are in "increasingly dire conditions," according to a statement Saturday by the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).