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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 3, 2023

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Dec. 3: Shin Bet chief says Israel to take out Hamas leaders ‘in Lebanon, Turkey, Qatar’

IDF begins ground op in southern Gaza * Gallant meets freed hostage, vows to bring her son home * Missiles fired at Israel from Gaza, Lebanon * 2 more IDF soldiers killed in battle

9:49 pm

US military official confirms 'self-defense strike' in Iraq in which 5 said killed
9:37 pm

New UK foreign secretary heading for DC, with Israel-Hamas war on agenda
9:02 pm

Netanyahu holds phone briefing with war cabinet, security chiefs

Freed hostages Yelena Trufanov, right, speaks next to her mother Irena Tati at a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, December 2, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'This deal just raised the price for the remaining hostages'

Freed hostages urge release of those still in Gaza, but not all parents agree on price

By Canaan Lidor

While most families celebrate the return of 81 Israelis as a welcome prelude to new swaps, some call the exchanges a ‘national security threat’

Hamas deputy political chief Saleh al-Arouri, after signing a reconciliation deal with senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad, during a short ceremony at the Egyptian intelligence complex in Cairo, Egypt, October 12, 2017. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

Top Hamas official says hostage negotiations are off until war ends

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Inside story

Return to Gush Katif: A determined movement emerges to resettle Israelis in Gaza

Though US President Joe Biden said it would be a "big mistake" and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the idea "unrealistic," hundreds of activists at an Ashdod gathering in late November called for reestablishing Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip following the October 7 massacre orchestrated by Hamas. “I call from here to all the... Continue Reading

File: Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 30, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel said to tell neighbors and US of plans to create Gaza buffer zone after war

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Israel Defense Forces troops operating in the Gaza Strip in a photo released for publication on December 3, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)

Army calls on parts of Khan Younis to evacuate

IDF says 800 tunnels discovered in Gaza op, 500 destroyed or sealed

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military says kilometers of tunnels eliminated, many of which link Hamas’s ‘strategic assets’; IDF Arabic spokesperson urges Shejaiya battalion to surrender

IDF Staff Sgt. Aschalwu Sama (left) and Sgt. First Class (res.) Or Brandes. (IDF)

IDF announces deaths of 2 more soldiers in Gaza fighting

Israeli troops stand on the top of tanks and military vehicles at sunset near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 2, 2023, after battles resumed between Israel and Hamas (Jack Guez / AFP)

Israel kills Hamas commander behind deadly attacks; rocket barrage targets Tel Aviv

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Facing public backlash, Netanyahu speaks to father of hero civilian killed by soldier

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday with Moshe Castleman, the father of Yuval Castleman, the armed civilian who was shot dead by a soldier after stopping a deadly terror attack in Jerusalem last week, following fierce public backlash. "Yuval Doron Castleman is an Israeli hero. Yuval, in... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on November 22, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Yuval Castleman is fatally shot after preventing the continuation of a deadly terror attack in Jerusalem on November 30, 2023. (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

‘He was executed’: Father of man killed after taking out terrorists decries response

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

From the blogs

Paul my love and Belle my love

Someone from the morgue greets them. He takes one look at her face and another at her round belly and refuses to let her in

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers remarks to the press in Tel Aviv on December 2, 2023. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ against Hamas; says PA rejects Israel, can’t rule Gaza

By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff

At press conference, PM insists ground op is only way to destroy terror group, acknowledges differences with US, claims he let money into Strip for years for humanitarian reasons

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert in a Keshet TV interview broadcast on March 17, 2018 (Keshet screenshot)

Olmert: World will halt war soon if Israel doesn’t offer viable vision for Gaza

Col. Asaf Hamami, the commander of the Gaza Division's southern brigade who was killed on October 7, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says head of Israeli brigade on Gaza border was killed Oct 7, body held by Hamas

By Emanuel Fabian

Executive leadership of UN Women, from left: Sima Bahous, Sarah Hendriks, and Moez Doraid (UN Women Screenshot)

FM Cohen: UN Women’s condemnation of Hamas attacks ‘tepid and late,’ chief should quit

By ToI Staff and Amy Spiro

Diplomat says UN investigation into sexual violence on October 7 should be led by neutral body, not panel made up of ‘Israel-haters and antisemites’

Then-Public Prosecutor Karim Khan prepares for the trial of Mahamat Said Abdel Kani at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, September 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

ICC chief prosecutor meets with Oct. 7 survivors in Israel, PA president

Who’s winning the war of words?

Awash with slogans trying to pull people’s heartstrings and enlist their loyalty, Israel might do better to avoid that loud politicized messaging

The bridge between yesterday and tomorrow

When the IDF comes to your home to tell you a son has been killed in action… for the second time (Fiction)

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin makes remarks at a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting, at the Pentagon in Washington, November 22, 2023. (Cliff Owen/AP)

US defense chief says Israel will only win in Gaza if civilians are protected

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Citing lessons learned in Iraq, Lloyd Austin says victory in an urban area comes through protecting the population, not driving it into the arms of the enemy

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 UN Climate Summit, December 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

VP Harris: Suffering in Gaza ‘devastating’; Israel must do more to protect civilians

By Agencies and ToI Staff

France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a press conference at the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 2, 2023. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Macron says ‘total destruction of Hamas’ would take 10 years of war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Dec. 3: Day 58 – The rise of Hamas in the West Bank

Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani describes terror group’s stance on why truce fell apart; reporter Canaan Lidor on massive rally for hostage families, return to Be’eri

Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas gives an interview to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, November 30, 2023 (Screenshot: CNN, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ra’am’s Abbas urges armed Palestinian factions to disarm, before softening statement

This handout picture released by the Israeli army shows troops on the ground in the northern Gaza Strip on December 2, 2023 (Israel Defense Forces)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec 2: Day 57 — How the truce fell apart and what is happening in Gaza now

Op-ed

Ksenia Svetlova

With all eyes on Gaza, Hamas might send the West Bank up in flames

The terror group’s popularity jumps as Palestinians lose confidence in Abbas, while IDF operations have killed hundreds and settler violence is at a high. Something has got to give

Illustrative: Israeli Border Police officers in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, northern West Bank, July 26, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Settlers kill West Bank Palestinian during clash — PA media

A picture taken in the outskirts of the town of Tair Harfa in southern Lebanon shows smoke rising after an Israeli strike on December 2, 2023. (Photo by AFP)

Hezbollah continues attacks on north, prompting IDF strikes in Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Military responds after northern community shelled, rockets target army posts; sirens in north activated after helicopter shoots down faulty Israeli drone

More Headlines

Illustrative: A police car and ambulance in Petah Tikva, August 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Nazareth in suspected organized crime hit

Police officers stand guard near a security perimeter set up after one person was killed and two others wounded in a knife attack in Paris, on December 2, 2023. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP)

Man killed in terror stabbing in Paris; attacker allegedly upset over Gaza war

Protesters hold placards and flags and chant slogans at a rally in support of Palestinians and against Israel, outside of the Houses of Parliament in central London on November 15, 2023. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)

Holocaust survivors in UK worried about rising antisemitism in country since Oct. 7

By AFP and ToI Staff

Freed Palestinian prisoners arrive in the West Bank city of Ramallah after being released under the terms of the Israel-Hamas hostage deal, on November 28, 2023. (Flash90)

Legal proceedings still pending against 13 Arab Israeli women released in Hamas deal

By Jeremy Sharon

Hamas members released by Libya en route to Turkey on December 1, 2023. (Social media)

Libya said to free four Hamas members held since 2016

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his interview with The Associated Press in Kharkiv, Ukraine, November 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

InterviewZelensky says Israel-Hamas war taking focus off Ukraine, fears aid reduction

By James Jordan, SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV

Illustrative: The screen of an Israeli-made Unitronics device that was hacked in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, on November 25, 2023. (Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa via AP)

Iranian cyber attack targets Israeli tech used by several US bodies

By Frank Bajak and Marc Levy

File: Susan Sarandon attends Rufus Wainwright's 50th birthday celebration at the Montauk Point Lighthouse on July 13, 2023 in Montauk, New York. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images/AFP)

Susan Sarandon apologizes for saying US Jews ‘getting taste’ of Muslim experience

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