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Demonstrators embrace each other after the ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas was reported, Tel Aviv, January 15, 2025. (The Times of Israel: Jack GUEZ / AFP)
January 16, 2025, 7:16 am
After 15 months of war, Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire-hostage release deal
Officials from all sides confirm agreement, expected to take effect Sunday; security cabinet is to meet Thursday morning to approve the accord.
By TOI STAFF, AGENCIES, Jacob Magid and AMY SPIRO
Medics at the scene of an impact of rocket fragments between Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak in central Israel, November 18, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Magen David Adom)
November 19, 2024, 10:02 am
Woman killed in Hezbollah attack on north; 5 hurt by missile fragments near Tel Aviv
Victim, 41, declared dead after being pulled from 3-story building in Shfar’am; Beirut shuts schools; UN peacekeepers report attack, likely by ‘non-state member actors’
By Emanuel Fabian and AGENCIES
Israelis call for the release of hostages held captive by the Hamas terror group in Gaza, during a protest outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 4, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 6, 2024, 8:35 am
Netanyahu offering hostages’ captors millions of dollars, safe passage from Gaza
Hamas had rejected a proposal for a short-term ceasefire and hostage release deal.
By Emanuel Fabian, LAZAR BERMAN, JEREMY SHARON, Jacob Magid and AGENCIES
Smoke billows at the site of an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Zawtar on September 21, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Ammar Ammar / AFP)
September 22, 2024, 2:29 pm
Hezbollah barrages deep into northern Israel; IDF hits over 400 launchers in Lebanon
Man lightly hurt by shrapnel in terror group’s southernmost rocket fire into Israel since October; Home Front Command issues new guidelines for residents of Haifa and northward.
By AGENCIES and Emanuel Fabian
Large crowds of Israelis call for an urgent deal to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Ohad Avrahami/Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
September 2, 2024, 1:44 pm
Masses protest across Israel in flood of grief, anger after Hamas executes 6 hostages
Almost 300,000 rally in Tel Aviv in largest protest since Oct. 7, later clashing with police and blocking highway for hours as they demand Netanyahu agree to hostage-ceasefire deal.
By NOAM LEHMANN, GIANLUCA PACCHIANI, TOI STAFF and AGENCIES
A rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, August 24, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 26, 2024, 11:02 am
No breakthroughs in Cairo talks as US says mediators pushing ‘feverishly’ for deal
Hamas official says terror group relayed its response to American ‘bridging proposal,’ denies hostage-ceasefire agreement could be imminent; lower-level negotiators to reconvene.
By AGENCIES and Jacob Magid
People gather near a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2024.; inset: Top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in a US wanted poster (The Times of Israel: AP Photo/Hussein Malla; State Department)
July 31, 2024, 10:05 am
IDF kills top Hezbollah commander in Beirut in response to deadly Majdal Shams attack
Fuad Shukr considered by Israel to be terror group’s most senior military officer, ‘right-hand man’ to chief Hassan Nasrallah, was also wanted by US for role in 1983 barracks bombing.
By Emanuel Fabian and AGENCIES
Demonstrators protest for the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 7, 2024. Einav Zangauker, the mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, is standing in the cage at left. The slogan on the cage reads, "Netanyahu, it's in your hands." (The Times of Israel: Itai Ron/ Flash90)
July 8, 2024, 11:57 am
Netanyahu issues list of ‘non-negotiable’ demands as hostage talks slated to restart
Security officials, mediators accuse PM of intentionally sabotaging deal by highlighting gaps in negotiations ahead of delegation’s departure to Cairo and Doha this week.
By AGENCIES, Jacob Magid and TOI STAFF
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague (The Times of Israel: Oliver de la haye / iStock)
June 5, 2024, 10:12 am
US House passes bill to sanction ICC for seeking Israel arrests warrants
42 Democrats vote with all House Republicans in favor of GOP legislation; approval less likely in Democrat-controlled Senate, amid White House opposition to sanctioning court.
By Jacob Magid and AGENCIES
Ismail Haniyeh, the Doha-based political bureau chief of Hamas, speaks to the press after a meeting with the Iranian foreign minister in Tehran on March 26, 2024. (The Times of Israel: AFP)
May 7, 2024, 11:01 am
Hamas claims to accept ceasefire, hostage deal; Israel: This isn’t what we agreed to
Gazans celebrate in streets; families of hostages plead for deal; US studying response; war cabinet says negotiators will meet mediators, but orders IDF to push ahead with Rafah op.
By LAZAR BERMAN, AGENCIES and Jacob Magid
People gather around the remains of a car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. (The Times of Israel: AFP)
April 3, 2024, 10:07 am
Israel acknowledges killing 7 aid charity workers in ‘tragic, unintentional’ airstrike
World Central Kitchen halts Gaza ops after ‘unforgivable’ Israeli bombing; victims’ countries demand answers; PM says will ‘do everything’ to prevent recurrence; White House ‘heartbroken’.
By Emanuel Fabian, TOI STAFF and AGENCIES
US President Joe Biden speaks at a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, as second gentleman Doug Emhoff and Rabbi Angela Buchdahl listen. (The Times of Israel: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)
December 13, 2023, 10:27 am
Marking Hanukkah, Biden vows to keep military support for Israel until Hamas gone
US president tells White House holiday reception ‘surge’ in antisemitism ‘sickening,’ promises steadfast backing despite differences with Israel’s leaders.
By AGENCIES and Jacob Magid
IDF troops inside Gaza on November 21. Photo: IDF Spokesman
November 23, 2023, 3:23 pm
IDF encircles Hamas stronghold of Jabaliya
The ground operation has concentrated on northern Gaza but is expected to expand to the Strip's south in the future stages of the war.
By Emanuel Fabian, AGENCIES and TOI STAFF
Antony Blinken (left) meets Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on November 5. Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Pool / AFP
November 6, 2023, 5:30 pm
Blasts settler violence, says Gazans must not be ‘forcibly displaced’
Blasts settler violence, says Gazans must not be ‘forcibly displaced’ US’s Blinken meets PA’s Abbas in Ramallah.
By AGENCIES, Jacob Magid and TOI STAFF
People search through debris outside the site of the Al-Ahli hospital in central Gaza on October 18. Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP
October 26, 2023, 9:06 am
Senior officials back Israel over hospital blast
'It would be wise for all of us to take a beat and pause and collect all the information before choosing to decide what we believe and what we don't'
By AGENCIES and JACOB MAGID AND TOI STAFF
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