With the release from Gaza of the last surviving captives, many Israelis said it was time for the country to heal after years of polarizing war.

The cease-fire in Gaza has taken hold. Hostages and prisoners have been exchanged. But amid the utter devastation of two years of war, a sense of gloom pervades.

President Trump arrived in Israel on Monday as Hamas released the remaining 20 living hostages in Gaza. About 2,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails were set to be released in the coming hours.

The Kremlin will only negotiate if missiles and drones bring the pain of war home to Russians, Ukrainian officials say.

With Russian forces gaining slowly on the battlefield, Ukraine hopes its long-range drone campaign will help persuade Vladimir V. Putin to change course.

The conference was billed as a celebration of China’s achievements in supporting women. But the government has mostly wiped out independent advocacy groups.

On Gaza, President Trump put few, if any, guardrails on Israel’s offensive, bucking international demands for a cease-fire. Then he changed course.

The Qatari prime minister told The New York Times that Gaza war mediators decided to delay talks on more difficult issues so a hostage-prisoner swap could be concluded quickly.

The arrest warrants, issued for more than two dozen people, were part of the country’s continuing struggle to come to terms with its authoritarian past.

Israeli soccer officials expected the demonstrations to persist even after a cease-fire took hold in Gaza.