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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 62

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IDF pushes further into Khan Younis, Jabaliya; two soldiers killed in heavy fighting

Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

IDF ground op toll at 86 * WHO director says Gaza health system ‘on its knees’ * Belgium announces travel ban on ‘extremist settlers,’ Germany wants EU discussions on sanctions

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing with Egypt before the end of a 7-day cease fire, wait at the border before being unloaded on December 1, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Following US pressure, Israel approves increase of fuel deliveries to Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu’s office says ‘minimal supplement of fuel’ will be allowed into Hamas -run enclave ‘to prevent a humanitarian collapse’ and outbreak of disease

Israelis put up posters of the those held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Urging deal, hostages’ families tell war cabinet some are facing death

Hanna Katzir (Courtesy)

Released hostage Hanna Katzir, 78, in dire medical condition, family says

A handout picture released by the Cuban presidency press office showing the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a press conference at the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 2, 2023. (Photo by Alejandro Azcuy / PRESIDENCIA CUBA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Dec. 6: Israel lashes UN chief for Hamas ‘support,’ says his term ‘a danger to world peace’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

LiveUpdated 10min ago

IDF pushes further into Khan Younis, Jabaliya; two soldiers killed in heavy fighting

By Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

IDF ground op toll at 86 * WHO director says Gaza health system ‘on its knees’ * Belgium announces travel ban on ‘extremist settlers,’ Germany wants EU discussions on sanctions

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing with Egypt before the end of a 7-day cease fire, wait at the border before being unloaded on December 1, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Following US pressure, Israel approves increase of fuel deliveries to Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu’s office says ‘minimal supplement of fuel’ will be allowed into Hamas -run enclave ‘to prevent a humanitarian collapse’ and outbreak of disease

Israelis put up posters of the those held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at 'Hostage Square' in Tel Aviv, December 6, 2023. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Urging deal, hostages’ families tell war cabinet some are facing death

Hanna Katzir (Courtesy)

Released hostage Hanna Katzir, 78, in dire medical condition, family says

A handout picture released by the Cuban presidency press office showing the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a press conference at the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 2, 2023. (Photo by Alejandro Azcuy / PRESIDENCIA CUBA / AFP)

Live updates (closed)Dec. 6: Israel lashes UN chief for Hamas ‘support,’ says his term ‘a danger to world peace’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks urging Congress to pass his national security supplement request, which includes funding to support Ukraine and Israel, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 6, 2023. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Senate Republicans block aid for Israel and Ukraine, demand border policy changes

Package sending $10 billion to Jerusalem and $60 billion to Kyiv stalled despite Schumer pledge for later vote on security at southern border; Biden says GOP giving Putin a ‘gift’

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich presents his 2023 wartime budget update to the Knesset, December 6, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset advances NIS 30 billion in new wartime funds, over intra-coalition objections

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

In this Nov. 23, 2023, photo provided by family attorney Abed Ayoub, three college students, from the left, Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Hisham Awartani, stand together for a photograph. (Rich Price via AP, File)

Nearly $1 million raised for Palestinian student shot in Vermont

IDF troops operate inside Gaza, in this handout photo released on December 6, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops fight in central Khan Younis as Netanyahu says Israel closing in on Sinwar

By Emanuel Fabian

Thousands of Palestinians flee city in southern Gaza as fighting intensifies, head for Rafah; military spokesman says Hamas gunmen are ‘coming out from underground and fighting us’

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip set up a tent camp in Rafah on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israeli TV: Gaza residents increasingly directing anger at Hamas over war

Video purporting to show Gazan civilians ransacking supplies stockpiled by UNRWA in early December, 2023. (Screenshot/X)

Video said to show desperate Gazans ransacking UNRWA supplies stockpile

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A pictured taken in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 5, 2023, shows smoke billowing following Israeli airstrikes amid continuing battles between Israel and the Hamas terror group, December 5, 2023. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

IDF steps up fight against Hamas in south Gaza; UN says 80% of population displaced

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Those we are missing

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

Those we are missing
Taken captive: Guy Gilboa-Dalal, took a selfie with his brother for mom

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Idan Shtivi, reached rave just before Hamas attack

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Rom Braslavski, rave guard who saved others

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Sahar Baruch, went to get inhaler for brother

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Presumed captive: Lior Rudaeff, went to fight for Nir Yitzhak

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Tamir Nimrodi, walked by gunmen to base gate

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Carmel Gat, seen doing yoga with hostage children

By ToI Staff
Sapir Cohen, released from Gaza; boyfriend Sasha Trufanov still a hostage

By ToI Staff
RELEASED: Mia Schem, 21, underwent arm surgery in Gaza

By ToI Staff
Liam Or, 18, released from Gaza; uncle Dror Or still captive

By ToI Staff
Sharon Aloni Cunio, twins Yuli and Emma, 3, freed; father David still in Gaza

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nimrod Cohen, twin working to bring him home

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Presumed captive: Dror Kaplun, last heard from in his safe room

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Uriel Baruch, last seen in video, laying next to car

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Nir Oz founder Amiram Cooper; wife Nurit released

By ToI Staff
RELEASED: Margalit Moses, 78: Cancer survivor freed from Gaza

By ToI Staff
RELEASED: Gali Tarshansky, 13, abducted after her brother was murdered at Be’eri

By ToI Staff
RELEASED: Nili Margalit, 41, nursed other hostages in Gaza

By ToI Staff
Rimon Kirsht Buchshtav released from Gaza; husband Yagev still captive

By ToI Staff
Those we are missing
Taken captive: Naama Levy, spending first Shabbat on army base

By ToI Staff

Those we have lost

Civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas's onslaught on Israel

Those We Have Lost
Sgt. Benji Needham, 19: UK-born champion kickboxer

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Noam Shai, 26: Student slain at music festival with his fiance

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Kiattisak Patee, 35: Thai worker whose TikTok showcased farm life

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Eitan Dov Rosenzweig, 21: Intellectual, religious artist

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Avner and Maya Goren, both 56: Dedicated kibbutznikim, parents of 4

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Staff Sgt. Teshager Taka, 21: ‘Would turn friends into family’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Shir Georgy, 22: Israeli-Canadian ‘wanted to be a lighthouse for others’

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Aviv Baram, 33: Kfar Aza defender, roadie for rockers & Hapoel fanatic

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Eliad Ohayon, 23: Volunteered with kids fighting cancer

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Tehila Katabi, 31: Nature lover who moved to Israel’s south

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Alon Werber, 26: Partygoer who just ‘wanted to dance’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Col. Asaf Hamami, 41: Witty commander ‘did not hesitate for a moment’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Ofir Tzarfati, 27: A ‘pure soul’ who helped girlfriend escape rave

By ToI Staff
Those we have lost
Staff Sgt. Yehonatan Semo, 21: Legacy and organs live on

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Maayan Kalihman, 22: Art student who ‘radiated light and joy’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Ofek Arazi, 28: ‘Always the strongest, the most caring’

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Oren Goldin, 33: Mechanic, kibbutznik, dad of 2-year-old twins

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Gideon Babani, 66: Yehud grandfather visiting friends on kibbutz

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Tamar Torpiashvili, 9: An ‘angel’ who dreamed of being famous

By ToI Staff
Those We Have Lost
Ashish Chaudhary, 25: Nepali student dreamed of supporting his family

By ToI Staff

Those We Call Heroes

People saving others and making lives better

Tales of the Times

The quirky, improbable, infuriating and uplifting

Critter capsule
Iran claims to send animals into space to prepare for human missions

By AP
Bursting with pride
Jerusalem pastry chef creates IDF-inspired Hanukkah doughnuts

By Jessica Steinberg
In first event for new National Library, southern artists talk life after Oct. 7

By Jessica Steinberg
Show must go on
Jerusalem’s Jewish Film Week going ahead, adjusted for war

By Jessica Steinberg
Learning on the front lines
Book publisher sends thousands of sacred texts to IDF soldiers

By Gavriel Fiske
In the cards
Signed Albert Einstein quote on sale for $65,000

By Gavriel Fiske
Military vets
IDF troops find injured hyena in West Bank, take it for treatment

By ToI Staff
About it all again
New miniseries to showcase Leonard Cohen’s romance with Marianne

By Andrew Lapin
Divine victory
Argentina’s president-elect visits Lubavitcher rebbe’s grave

By Juan Melamed
Legacy breaker
‘Your debacle has eclipsed mine’: Golda’s ghost haunts PM in satire skit

By Jessica Steinberg
New life
Baby names appear to see influence from October 7 attacks

By Stuart Winer
Political stage
US Sen. Chuck Schumer thrills audience with Broadway debut

By julia GERGELY
Freedom daubers
Street artists paint Tel Aviv wall murals about child hostages

By Jessica Steinberg
Warning: Explicit lyrics
Hip-hop war anthem reaches number one in Israel

By Gavriel Fiske
Basic services
He parks a traveling lavatory wherever hostages’ families gather to rally

By Jessica Steinberg
Displaced art
Jerusalem Biennale postponed, exhibits shown abroad to support Israel

By Jessica Steinberg
'So much to be proud of'
MLB star, others to be inducted into Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

By jacob gurvis
Un-common application
In prank, Harvard called by mother of enrolling Hamas terrorist

By ToI Staff
News you can cruise
Marine patrol group brings displaced families aboard for R&R

By Sue Surkes
Pitching for Israel
Team Israel baseball captain Ryan Lavarnway talks solidarity

By jacob gurvis

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