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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 31, 2014

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An Israeli artillery gun fires a 155mm shell toward targets in the Gaza Strip from their position near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014. (photo credit:AFP/ JACK GUEZ)

Liveblog July 31, Day 24 of war with Hamas (closed)

US slams ‘indefensible’ Israeli strike; PA could press war crimes charges; PM says tackling tunnels 1st step to demilitarized Gaza

By Ricky Ben-David, Marissa Newman and Haviv Rettig Gur

Spate of injured in rocket attacks; truce talks stalled; former IDF intel chief says Hamas has lost; intense fighting reported in ravaged Shejaiya neighborhood; Gaza officials say death toll over 1,400; IDF fatalities at 56

Army to call up 16,000 more reservists

Security cabinet instructs IDF to keep hitting Hamas

By Raphael Ahren

US calls for Gaza probe, blasts Kerry’s critics

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

A soldier leading journalists through a tunnel in Khan Yunis (screen capture: Walla! News)

Reporter's notebook

Amid the tunnels and the traps of Hamas’s militarized Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

In what remains of a Khan Younis suburb, observing the IDF’s mission to find and demolish terror tunnels dug into Israel, without being surprised by Hamas gunmen or the bombs they’ve hidden everywhere

Masked Palestinian members of the Ezz Al-Din Al Qassam brigade, the military wing of Hamas, parade during the funeral of Ahmed Ayad, 22, in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City on Saturday, June 21, 2014 photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

The IDF believes it has killed over 1,000 Hamas fighters

From tunnels to R-160s, a primer on Hamas and its deadly capabilities

By Elhanan Miller

The full story of the subterranean passages, thousands of foot soldiers, and large supplies of rockets and bombs, that turned Hamas into a sophisticated enemy

IDF: ‘Cowardly’ tunnel attack shows why Gaza op must go on

By Raphael Ahren

Militants ‘blow up UNRWA clinic,’ killing 3 soldiers

By Mitch Ginsburg

Captured Hamas operative reveals paragliding attack plan

By Adiv Sterman

The silence of loss

Reading the newspaper, hearing about the funerals, piecing together bits about the lives of 18 year olds…

To defeat Hamas, let them ‘win’

Israel may not be able to just ‘declare victory and go home,’ but it can play smart

Jumping on the Hamas bandwagon

Iran and Hezbollah are arming resistance in the West Bank and convincing Hamas to ally with the Assad regime

Israeli supporters rally in Times Square on July 20, 2014 in New York City (photo credit: AFP/Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

As Jews unite, is US youth moving to anti-Semitism ‘at light speed’?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

While top Diaspora Jewish leaders tout an almost unprecedented solidarity with Israel, a new poll speaks otherwise for young adults

Illustrative photo of Palestinians walking past the ruins of a mosque after that was hit by an Israeli missile strike, in the central Gaza Strip (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

WATCH: IDF soldiers uncover tunnel shaft in mosque

Weapons also found at Gaza Strip prayer house; army set to intensify operation in coming days

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks with Israeli soldiers near the border with the Gaza Strip, on July 26, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

How Gaza perverts the army’s rules of engagement

By Mitch Ginsburg

As Hamas and other terror groups blur the line between civilian and fighter, Israeli forces have to make tougher decisions than ever

Hagel and Ya'alon at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv in May (photo credit: Ariel Hermony/ Ministry of Defense)

Hagel expresses concern over rising Gaza death toll

Illustrative: Palestinian missiles are fired from Gaza City toward Israel following Israeli airstrikes on July 17, 2014. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Iran commando chief calls Gaza disarmament ‘a daydream’

By AFP

In rare statement, powerful Quds Force head Qassem Suleimani says Palestinians should ‘turn skies into hell for Zionists’

It started as a lemonade stand for soldiers, but now 250 volunteers provide 50,000 meals a day for soldiers and others involved in war effort. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

50,000 meals a day among outpouring of support for IDF

By Melanie Lidman

Heavy smoke billows following an Israeli military strike on Gaza City, on July 29, 2014. (AFP/Ashraf Amra)

Israel ‘disappointed’ by Latin American envoy recalls

By AFP

Foreign Ministry says moves by Chile, El Salvador, and Peru serve as encouragement for Hamas

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah with members of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), July 22, 2014. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

PA to sign Rome Statute of ICC

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Palestinians could sue Israel for ‘war crimes’ but exposing themselves to similar allegations

International supporters of Magen David Adom on Wednesday, July 30, 2014, stand alongside a two-meter-long Grad rocket that landed outside of Netivot (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

In Netivot, facing a piece of the Gaza rocket threat

By Melanie Lidman

Residents of the southern town stand firm despite ongoing missile fire from the Strip

Avital Afgin and her daughter, Tair, spent three months in the hospital after being hit by a rocket in their hometown of Sderot (Courtesy OneFamily)

At Galilee resort, southerners seek escape from life under rockets

By Simone Somekh

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Illustrative: The night before Yom Kippur at the Western Wall, 2012. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

32 nations back Yom Kippur as UN holiday

By Edith M. Lederer

Image shows an actual nano-propellor (top left), while the drawings show how the propeller navigates through hyaluronan (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Nano-sized propellers could revolutionize medicine

By David Shamah

Listing of the film Villa Touma, by Israeli-Arab screenwriter Suha Arraf, at the Venice Film Festival, 2014. (screen capture: La Biennale)

Culture Ministry wants money back from ‘Palestinian’ film

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Members of the JDL clash with pro-Palestinian protesters in Paris, July 13, 2014. (YouTube screenshot)

French JDL head: Reported ban on group is still rumor

By JTA

Former England soccer player Paul Cascoigne. (screen capture:YouTube/inferno1971)

What's in a hashtag?Soccer fans go Gaza for Gazza

By Stuart Winer

Israeli soldiers at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip, on July 28, 2014, (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewEmbedded in the Gaza Strip

By Ilan Ben Zion

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