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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 28, 2023

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This image grab from an AFP TV footage shows fire and smoke rising above Gaza City during an Israeli strike late on October 27, 2023. (Yousef Hassouna/AFP)

Army to allow increased aid to southern Gaza

IAF strikes 150 Hamas tunnels, bunkers; tanks in Gaza; Gallant: War entered new phase

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF says it killed several terrorists including head of Hamas aerial forces; stepped-up ground forces incursion continues; no Israeli injuries in clashes

Explosions caused by Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip, October 27, 2023. (AP/Abed Khaled)

Israeli ground forces ‘expanding’ activity inside Gaza, ramping up airstrikes — IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza hold a press conference outside the Art Museum of Tel Aviv, October 28, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Oct. 28: Israel expands ground offensive inside Gaza; families urge ‘all for all’ hostage deal

PM announces ‘second stage’ of war, meets with families of hostages * Rockets hit south, center; girl, 9, dies of cardiac arrest * Anti-Israel demos worldwide

9:59 pm

PMO again denies Netanyahu was warned ahead of October 7 Hamas onslaught
9:58 pm

Israel said to target Syrian posts in response to earlier shelling
8:32 pm

Hamas supporters take to the streets in West Bank city of Tulkarem

Egypt's United Nations Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023 at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Hamas hails 120-14 vote; France among Europeans in favor

UN resolution urging immediate Gaza ceasefire passes with overwhelming majority

Jerusalem denounces General Assembly’s approval of ‘despicable’ Jordanian initiative that makes no mention of Hamas, vows to move forward with goal of toppling terror group

Analysis

If ground invasion comes, combat in Gaza’s cities will be a bloody grind

Urban warfare offers endless advantages to the defender, and comes at a massive cost to both soldiers and civilians, but the IDF might have no choice

People search for survivors and for bodies of victims through the rubble of buildings destroyed during Israeli airstrikes, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 26, 2023, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Palestinian terror group Hamas. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari briefs media that Hamas's main operations center is located under Gaza's Shifa Hospital, October 27, 2023 (Youtube screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hamas’s main operations base is under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, says IDF

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Military charges terror group has several underground complexes under Gaza’s largest hospital, says ‘hundreds of terrorists flooded into hospital to hide’ after Oct. 7 massacres

Illustrative: Demonstrators call for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group, during a protest organized by Jewish Voice for Peace at Grand Central Station in New York City on October 27, 2023. (Kena Betancur/AFP)

200 held as Jewish group shuts NYC’s Grand Central calling for Gaza ceasefire

Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist group, protests Israeli strikes on Hamas with banners and slogans saying ‘not in our name,’ and ‘Palestinians should be free’

A Palestinian man flashes the victory sign during a solidarity march with the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 27, 2023, amid the war between Israel and Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group. (Aris Messinis/AFP)

‘Liberate Gaza’: Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate across West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

'Worst of all nights'

Families of hostages meet PM after demanding to speak to him as Gaza op intensifies

IDF says that freeing the captives is a national imperative and the military’s efforts are aimed at achieving this goal even as it steps up airstrikes and sends troops into Strip

Graffiti calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, October 27, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Five Brodutch family members, L-R: Hagar, Ofri, Avichai, Yuval and Uriah. All but Avichai have been taken hostage. (Avichai Brodutch via AP)

Some 30 children were taken hostage into Gaza. Their families wait in agony

By Laurie Kellman

An empty shabbat table symbolizing the over 200 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, in Times Square, New York City, October 27, 2023. (Luke Tress via JTA)

Empty Shabbat table set up in Times Square, as fight for hostages extends abroad

Palestinians collect boxes and and bags from a UN-run aid supply center, distributing food to local Palestinians and people displaced in Gaza, in Deir al-Balah on October 28, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Arab, Western officials agree Hamas is keeping Gaza food, fuel for itself – NY Times

Sources tell newspaper terror group has stocks that could last for months, as it prepares for lengthy fight ahead

File - From left to right: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Putin's Special Envoy to the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov, and Hamas head of international relations Mousa Abu Marzouk, during a trilateral meeting in Moscow on October 26, 2023. (Hamas Telegram channel)

Hamas said to tell Moscow it’s looking for 8 Russians among hostages, will free them

By Agencies and ToI Staff

How friends abroad can help: Show the pictures

Israelis are shielded from Hamas’s images of their atrocities – but they are out there: Show the truth to the deniers

The case for hope

To fight despair we need to focus on how Israel will emerge stronger from this war

Flares are fired from northern Israel over the southern Lebanese border village of Aita al-Shaab, on October 28,2023. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah sites in Lebanon after fresh missile, rocket attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says missile aimed at UAV intercepted, terror cell preparing anti-tank fire struck; rockets launched Friday miss army positions, hit Syria

Images of the hostages held by the Hamas terror group in Gaza are on display in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, October 27, 2023. (Flash90)

Israel dismisses ‘rumors’ of progress in indirect hostage negotiations with Hamas

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Senior Israeli official says Jerusalem believes terror group dragging out talks to delay IDF ground offensive into Gaza

Shirel Tayeb and Reuven Lebetkin are married at Israel's northern border on October 23, 2023. Their planned wedding date took place during the Israel-Hamas war and they chose to move forward with changes. (Courtesy of Lebetkin via JTA)

'It's been so difficult, but the overriding feeling is joy'

Israelis are going forward with weddings despite war and loss in their own families

By Deborah Danan

Unprecedented circumstances call for quick thinking and last-minute changes as rockets fall and men go to reserves – but for many couples the only unacceptable option is canceling

A photo released by Israel Police urging Israelis not to answer WhatsApp calls from unknown foreign numbers, October 27, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police: Don’t answer calls from unknown foreign numbers amid potential hack attempt

Authorities say calls flooding Israelis’ phones over past day appear designed to cause panic, possibly hack WhatsApp accounts

'The Terrorist Attack at Nova Music Festival' by Zoya Cherkassky, October 2023.

With gut-wrenching drawings, artist Zoya Cherkassky shares Israel’s pain with world

By Renee Ghert-Zand

There is no escaping the sheer horror, pain and trauma in mixed-media works on paper, in which even the brightest colors are overshadowed by the blackness of Saturday, October 7

Explainer

Amid concern for humanitarian situation, how much water and power does Gaza have?

Israel has severely reduced water supply to Strip and halted provision of all electricity and fuel, but maintains there is enough water and power to prevent a humanitarian crisis

Palestinians fill containers with water in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 20, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

A view of an opening event for the Vilnius 700th anniversary events in the Lithuanian capital, January 25, 2023. (Gabriel Khiterer via JTA)

'The city's history holds an unresolvable tension'

As Vilnius celebrates its 700th anniversary, Lithuanian Jews commemorate a darker one

By Emily Tamkin

A thriving Jewish center for hundreds of years, the city saw its Jews decimated by the Nazis and local collaborators, a history not all Lithuanians are willing to confront

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Popular video game found to be virtual hub for pro-Palestinian protests

By jacob gurvis

File - People walk outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2023. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Biden says Hamas attack ‘deepening the wound’ of 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

Illustrative photo of a clock. (Shutterstock)

Clocks in Israel turn back an hour as daylight saving time ends

Sandrine Sebbane, programme director and journalist at RCJ, the the Radio of the Jewish Community, right, Marie-Claude Egry, clinical psychologist, second right, Stephanie Kastel, psychotherapist specialized in trauma related disorders, third right, and Philippe Levy, director of the youth action program at the FSJU, (United Jewish Social Fund) federating Jewish associations in France, speak, at RCJ radio, in Paris, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French Jews set up a hotline for community members traumatized by Israel-Hamas war

In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, October 1, 2023. (Iranian state television/ AP)

Iranian teen allegedly attacked by morality police for not wearing a hijab dies

By Jon Gambrell

An unidentified New Yorker (l) confronts a man tearing down posters of hostages taken by the Hamas terror group on October 27, 2023 (Screencapture/X: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

King of Queens‘Paulie’ confronts NY man who ripped down Israeli hostage posters

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