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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 14, 2023

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Smoke and fire rise following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Live updates (closed)

Oct 14: Fighting intensifies in Gaza, north as Israeli ground operation looms

By ToI Staff and Ricky Ben-David

IDF bombs many Hamas targets, clashes with Hezbollah on Lebanon border, amid rocket barrages; government official says no hostage talks with Hamas for now, drawing families’ fury

12:27 am

Iran warns of 'far reaching consequences' if Israel does not halt Gaza campaign
12:13 am

Biden: Hamas is using innocents as human shields
11:38 pm

Hamas says 3 members who infiltrated Israel from Lebanon were killed in IAF strike

Hundreds join vigil of man whose wife, kids abducted to Gaza; many rage at government

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff

Avihai Brodutch sets up camp outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, plans to stay there until abductees return

Avihai Brodutch, whose wife and three children were abducted by terrorists to Gaza, protests outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, October 14, 2023 (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)

Israeli envoy to the UN Gilad Erdan holds an event for the families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza by the Hamas terror group, October 13, 2023. (Antony Hatuel)

Israeli envoy castigates UN at solidarity event for hostages seized by Hamas

Document recovered from terrorists and published by NBC News on October 13, 2023, said to detail, among other preparations, Hamas's plans to kill civilians, take hostages, at Kibbutz Sa’ad in southern Israel during the terror group's rampage on October 7, 2023. (via Twitter)

IDF ‘localized’ raids into Gaza said to recover bodies; maps show Hamas killing plans

Bodies of Israelis missing since Saturday massacres said found; documents from terrorists’ bodies detail Hamas plans for killing civilians, targeting schools, seizing hostages

Israeli tanks head toward the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on October 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

IDF launches first ‘localized’ raids into Gaza ahead of expected ground invasion

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Awaiting ID, the bodies of Hamas’s victims are stacked on racks in outdoor containers

Most of the Israeli civilian bodies transferred to the Military Rabbinate for processing await ID, complicated by condition of the remains and availability of fingerprint records

A Zaka volunteer stands in front of a refrigerator truck, serving as a temporary mortuary for victims of Hamas' October 7 attack, at the Military Rabbinate's headquarters in Ramle, October 13, 2023. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a televised address to the nation on October 13, 2023. (Screenshot/ used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu slammed for sparking panic with very rare Shabbat address to the nation

It was the first time a prime minister has spoken to country on the sabbath since 1994, but short speech appeared mostly designed to boost morale, deflect criticism

Then-US president Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump says he stands with Netanyahu after criticism for saying he ‘let us down’

US President Joe Biden waves as he walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Oct. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden holds 90-minute meeting with families of 14 missing Americans

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘He wanted to hear from each and every one of us,’ says Ruby Chen, whose son Itay, a soldier, is missing; US president says he ‘cares deeply’ about those held by Hamas

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Tioga Marine Terminal, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden says humanitarian crisis in Gaza a priority as evacuation deadline nears

By AP and ToI Staff

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY speaks during a news conference after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Chinese officials, at the US Embassy in Beijing, Oct. 9, 2023. (AP/Andy Wong, File)

Schumer to lead bipartisan senators group to Israel to show ‘unwavering’ US support

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

An Israeli soldier flashes a V-sign from an armoured personnel carrier (APC) as they head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel, Oct. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel at war

IDF kills two Hamas commanders in Gaza involved in murderous attack on south

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Ahead of expected ground operation, military says evacuation corridor open for residents of northern Gaza, hundreds of thousands fled south; IDF says will attack with ‘great force’

IDF again strikes Hezbollah after drones from Lebanon intercepted over north

By Emanuel Fabian

Terror cell killed while attempting to infiltrate into Israel; air defenses shoot down three ‘unidentified objects’ over Haifa, Shefa-‘Amr, in latest clashes on northern frontier

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on the Lebanese village of Alma al-Shaab on October 13, 2023. (Christina ASSI / AFP)

Smoke billows after an apparent Israeli strike on the village of Alma al-Shaab on October 13, 2023 (Christina ASSI / AFP)

Journalist killed, 6 others wounded by Israeli shelling at Lebanon border

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A woman and her dog take cover in a stairway in Jerusalem, as a red alert siren sounds during a rocket barrage fired from Gaza into Israel, October 7, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

'Animals have been showing up at my door left and right'

As enemy rockets rain down, Israelis provide shelter to displaced pets

By Shira Silkoff

The onslaught of terror that poured out of the Gaza Strip on Saturday and the subsequent war has upended large numbers of citizens around the country – and their furry friends

Protesters burn Israeli flags during a demonstration at Tahrir Square in Baghdad on October 13, 2023 (Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP)

Tens of thousands protest across Mideast after Hamas called for ‘Day of Rage’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators rally in multiple cities, burning flags and chanting for Israel’s destruction

French police officers from the forensic service stand in front of the Gambetta high school in Arras, northeastern France on October 13, 2023, after a teacher was killed and two other people severely wounded in a knife attack, police and regional officials said. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)

French teacher stabbed to death in ‘Islamist terror’ said linked to Gaza fighting

By Kenan Augeard

Batsheva Dahan shows the knife she keeps in her mobility scooter in case she encounters terrorists in Ofakim on October 11, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook'This is my city, I live here, and here I will stay'

In Sderot and Ofakim, Israelis put aside traumas to take care of neighbors in need

By Canaan Lidor

A grassroots effort is underway to help those who chose to stay despite the murderous terrorist incursion and relentless rocket fire

The world finally sees this evil, will it accept Israel’s response?

For years, terrorists have committed atrocities against Israelis, and for years, these murderers were called ’militants’

To the innocent Palestinians in Gaza

We know you are suffering, in the dark and without basic necessities, but it is Hamas that has failed you

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino makes a solidarity tour of southern Israel on October 13, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Not Pulp Fiction

Once upon a time in the south: Tarantino solidarity trip to troops, towns

Social media lights up with spottings of the director at IDF bases and in southern communities; other Hollywood celebs speak out in support of Israel

Gal Gadot arrives at the ninth Breakthrough Prize ceremony at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, on, April 15, 2023. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Steadfast backingHollywood declares support for Israel, as Disney pledges $2 million

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel supporters at a game between the Brooklyn Nets and Israel's Maccabi Raanana, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, October 12, 2023. (Luke Tress/JTA)

Brooklyn Nets-Maccabi Ra’anana game turns into catharsis for Israel supporters

Israelis mourn next to the graves of Danielle Waldmann and her partner Noam Shai, during their funeral in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Tivon, October 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Those We Have Lost

Portraits of civilians and soldiers killed in Hamas’s onslaught on southern Israel

Illustrative: Students from Hunter College in New York City chant and hold up signs during an anti-Israel demonstration at the entrance of their campus on October 12, 2023. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images, via JTA)

Jewish groups demand US schools defund pro-Palestinian group for lauding Hamas attack

ADL report says Students for Justice in Palestine has cheered murderous onslaught as ‘historic win,’ distributed images of Hamas terrorists and made incendiary social media posts

Police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

US Jewish progressives are grappling with how to respond to Hamas’ terror onslaught

New York City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov leads a protest against antisemitism in Brooklyn, New York, on January 2, 2022. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)

Jewish NY lawmaker Inna Vernikov arrested after carrying gun to pro-Palestinian rally

Republican councilwoman charged with criminal possession of a firearm although she has a license to own a gun; sidearms are not permitted in ‘sensitive locations’ in New York

Journalists photograph missing persons posters ahead of a press conference of British children of Israeli hostages at a hotel in London, October 12, 2023. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Relatives of Israel’s missing form media battalion to raise awareness of loved ones

By Deborah Danan and Ben Sales

Within days, families organized via group text have captured the attention of the world, the president of the United States – but not the Israeli government

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