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Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to urge the government to negotiate a ceasefire that would secure the release of hostages captured by Hamas on October 7th.

Histadrut, a trade union, called for a general strike on Monday.

The mayor of Tel Aviv said that city workers would join in.

Earlier Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages from an underground tunnel in Ruffer, the city in southern Gaza.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, said the deaths prove that Hamas does not want a deal. Health workers in Gaza began vaccinating children against polio in the first

of three planned humanitarian pauses. They hope to inoculate 640,000 people against the extremely contagious disease in the next few weeks.

Only one confirmed K-Eza polio has been confirmed within the territory so far,

but the World Health Organization worries that more may have gone undiagnosed.

A Russian strike on Harkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, injured 41 people according to local officials.

Falodemizelensky, Ukraine's president, accused the Russians of targeting civilian infrastructure.

Russia said that it shot down 158 Ukrainian drones in 15 regions across the country,

including two over Moscow.

It claimed that the UAVs had struck a power plant and an oil refinery.

Exit poll suggests that the alternative for Germany came top in an election in

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