内容摘要：Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

And in Gaza itself, children weep, their faces confronted in terror as they cover their ears after yet another Israeli bombardment of the besieged strip against the Mediterranean Sea.A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building in Ghobeiri, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet hits a building in Ghobeiri, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Mourners grieve at the funeral of Michel Nisenbaum, who was killed during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and whose body was taken into Gaza, in Ashkelon, Israel, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)Mourners grieve at the funeral of Michel Nisenbaum, who was killed during Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and whose body was taken into Gaza, in Ashkelon, Israel, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Palestinian children are evacuated from a site hit by an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Palestinian children are evacuated from a site hit by an Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Across the Middle East this year, Associated Press photographers froze these moments in time, reflections of the wars and their horrors that have upended life across the region.

The initial 2023 Hamas attack, which killed 1,200 people in Israel and saw 250 others taken hostage, gave way to the grinding Israeli ground offensive and airstrike campaign in the Gaza Strip. There, local health officials put the death toll from the war at more than 44,000 Palestinians as hostilities continue. They don’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in their count but say more than half the dead were women and children.Since Turner took the helm at HUD, the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has instructed staff to pause investigations of all gender identity discrimination cases, according to two HUD attorneys who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing their jobs or benefits.

One said letters were then issued closing the cases for lack of jurisdiction. HUD has not disclosed how many cases have been dropped.Webster’s letter and another provided to the AP cite

calling for the federal government to define sex as only male or female.Morris, of the ACLU, said she has never seen an executive order cited in a jurisdictional closure of a complaint.