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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team meet the Board of Peace pointman for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov, US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and others in Jerusalem, May 5, 2026. (Prime Minister's Office)
Jacob Magid
Inside story
Jacob Magid
Board of Peace official: We won’t have leverage over Netanyahu until after election
Official tells ToI the PM would campaign on snubbing pressure from US-controlled Gaza oversight panel, but board's leverage will return after Oct. 27 vote, regardless of who wins
Shalom Yerushalmi
Op-ed
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How far-right outcast Moshe Feiglin resurrected his political career
Shalom Yerushalmi
Jacob Magid
Inside story
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US wanted Hamas to start disarming before Knesset election, but it’ll have to wait
Jacob Magid
L: US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks during a conference at Tel Aviv University, May 12, 2026. R: Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, at the Palacio de Viana in Madrid, Spain, July 29, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90, Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)
Huckabee accuses UK government of ‘Jew hate’ over claim Israel blocking medicine from Gaza
By ToI Staff
An explosion erupts following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, September 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
September 10, 2026, 4:49 am
Hamas says Israeli strike in Gaza killed top operative freed in 2011 Shalit deal
No immediate word from military on reported killing of Farah Hamed; IDF confirms launching strikes on Tuesday that it says destroyed weapons depots and rocket-launching site
By Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks during a joint press conference with Slovenia’s Foreign minister prior to the opening of Israel’s embassy in Slovenia, in Ljubljana on September 9, 2026. (Martin Metelko/AFP)
September 10, 2026, 12:12 am
Israel has no plans ‘to expel or to deport’ Palestinians from Gaza, Sa’ar says
Speaking at embassy opening in Slovenia, FM says those who want to leave war-torn Strip can, but no one will be forced out
By Lazar Berman
Hamas police forces deploy in Gaza City on October 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/ Flash90)
September 9, 2026, 7:36 am
Israel barring recruits it vetted for Gaza police from leaving Strip for training
16,500 of 283,000 applicants approved to serve on new technocratic government’s police force still need to be let out for training in Egypt, Board of Peace officials tell ToI
By Jacob Magid
Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza under the US-backed “Board of Peace” tasked with implementing the October 2025 ceasefire plan, speaks at the Hili Forum 2026 in Abu Dhabi on September 7, 2026. (FADEL SENNA/AFP)
September 7, 2026, 4:38 pm
Mladenov: Gaza deadlock, West Bank escalation making two-state solution ‘impossible’
Board of Peace high representative says ‘no credible pathway forward to a political resolution of the conflict’ unless Strip moves forward with Hamas disarmament, IDF withdrawal
By AFP and ToI Staff
Abdallah Nabhan, an aid worker in Gaza killed in April 2024. (Courtesy)
September 7, 2026, 5:16 am
Israel demands Belgium apologize after Gaza aid worker’s possible Hamas link emerges
Brussels had condemned April 2024 strike that killed employee of Belgium agency, who is seen in uniform and described as a ‘mujahid’ in a Hamas-linked channel’s post
By Nava Freiberg
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner seen during a joint press conference with Ukrainian president following their talks in Kyiv on September 6, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
September 7, 2026, 3:05 am
Kushner: Israel acting ‘a little irrational’ on Gaza due to upcoming election
US envoy says Israel and US agree on ‘end state for Gaza’; father and daughter killed in strike in Gaza City, IDF says father was a Hamas commander
By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan and Reuters
Palestinians ride on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid from the World Food Program, after it arrived in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)
September 6, 2026, 3:12 pm
8 Muslim-majority nations pan proposals by Katz, Ben Gvir promoting Gaza emigration
FMs of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, Indonesia and Pakistan warn ‘provocative’ statements will have ‘grave consequences,’ impact peace efforts
By Nava Freiberg and AFP
The Israeli army demolishes buildings east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
September 4, 2026, 7:18 pm
IDF says it killed a Hamas commander who led Oct. 7 assault on border post
Military says Mohammad Mahmoud Marshad al-Qadi also held hostages; captured Hamas internal security chief said cooperating with interrogators, providing ‘intelligence gold mine’
By Emanuel Fabian, Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Otzma Yehudit chair and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a supporters’ conference ahead of the upcoming general election, in Netanya, September 1, 2026. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
September 3, 2026, 9:33 pm
Ben Gvir unveils ‘voluntary emigration’ plan to remove most Palestinians from Gaza
Far-right minister’s plan, which he hopes to advance under next government, aims at removing 1.86 million of Strip’s residents within 7 years, as he promises ‘absorption package’ to assist those settling in new countries
By Ariela Karmel
Boats belonging to the Global Sumud Flotilla depart for Gaza from the port of Marmaris, Turkey, May 14, 2026, in an attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade. (AP/Murat Kocabas)
September 2, 2026, 8:48 pm
New Gaza flotilla due to set sail in October in bid to break Israeli blockade
Ships will stop in Spain, Portugal and Italy to gather support and raise funds for their cause before departing for the Palestinian enclave
By ToI Staff
Defense Minister Israel Katz speaks at a Ynet conference, September 2, 2026. (Screenshot)
September 2, 2026, 8:08 pm
Katz: Israel will facilitate emigration from Gaza ‘by any means’ as soon as Trump allows
Defense minister claims 80% of Palestinians want to leave Gaza, but nobody will take them; PM visits IDF post in Strip, says Israel won’t withdraw from territory it currently holds
By Nava Freiberg and Emanuel Fabian
Muein al-Arabid, head of Hamas's internal security apparatus, was captured by Israel on September 1, 2026. (Social media/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 1, 2026, 9:28 pm
Israel confirms capturing Hamas internal security chief in Gaza City raid
Special forces from Shin Bet descend on building in Strip, nab Muein al-Arabid in ‘bold operation,’ PM, military, and security agency say
By Emanuel Fabian
People gather near a destroyed vehicle following an Israeli strike in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on September 1, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP)
September 1, 2026, 1:52 pm
IDF strikes Gaza as Hamas official captured in reported raid by Israel-backed militia
Military carries out heavy wave of strikes, says it struck targets to ‘remove threats to security forces’ amid apparent operation by anti-Hamas armed group; 3 said killed
By Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
Israeli protesters hold large photographs of the 'beautiful 6' six Israeli hostages who were killed in Hamas captivity, as well as a banner reading, 'We will not forget they could have returned alive,' at a demonstration outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, August 31, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
August 31, 2026, 1:11 pm
Protesters mark 2 years since recovery of 6 slain Gaza hostages, demand Oct. 7 probe
Activists outside Netanyahu’s Jerusalem home display banner reading, ‘We will not forget they could have returned alive,’ hold photos of hostages who were killed in captivity
By ToI Staff
An air strike targets a commander in Hamas's Nukhba Force, in the Gaza Strip, August 30, 2026. (IDF)
August 30, 2026, 4:29 pm
Weekend strikes kill several Hamas operatives, including Oct. 7 invaders, IDF says
Military says terror group commander killed in Deir al-Balah; local officials say three-year-old among dead; another attack targets commander hiding adjacent to hospital
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
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