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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 5, 2023

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Palestinians arrive in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 5, 2023. (AP/Hatem Ali)

Live updates (closed)

Dec. 5: As aid to southern Gaza slowed by intense fighting, Israel says UN to blame

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Israel publishes footage of Hamas commanders in tunnels * IDF says it is proving it can abide by international law as troops surround Khan Younis * Troop deaths raise toll to 82

10:47 pm

IDF issues rare apology after strike kills Lebanese soldier
10:19 pm

Liberman claims he offered to join cabinet, doesn't mention demands
10:03 pm

Israel booting top UN humanitarian official Hastings

'Rape as a weapon of war is a crime against humanity'

Israel-led UN special session condemns world silence on Hamas using rape as weapon of war

By Amelie Botbol

Meet aims to raise awareness of sexual crimes against women during Oct. 7 massacres; US says women still held hostage so they can’t talk about what’s happened to them in captivity

Demonstrators gather during a '#MeToo unless you are a Jew' protest outside of United Nations headquarters in New York City, on December 4, 2023. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

US: Hamas not releasing female hostages so they won’t share ‘what happened to them’

By AFP, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Sheryl Sandberg addresses the special session at the UN on sexual violence against Israelis, in New York City, December 4, 2023. (Perry Bindelglass)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Dec. 5: Day 60 – UN Women condemns Hamas’s brutal assaults

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo published by the military on December 5, 2023. (IDF)

IDF: Troops fight in center of Khan Younis, raid Hamas general security HQ in Jabaliya

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Top general cites heaviest battles since ground op began; Air Force hits elite Hamas Nukhba unit in joint operation with paratroopers; targets hit on Gaza coast

IDF troops operate in northern Gaza near the mouth of a Hamas tunnel in this handout photo released on November 23, 2023. (IDF)

Israel said to set up pumps in Gaza for flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater

IDF tanks roll near the border with the Gaza Strip on December 3, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Dozens of tanks roll into southern Gaza as rockets target central Israel, Beersheba

By Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner

A diagram shown on Channel 12 on December 4, 2023, from an IDF report in July 2022, on potential Hamas invasion plans. (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

More details unveiled of IDF intel on Oct. 7 plans, consults hours before Hamas attack

2 IDF commando companies diverted to West Bank from Gaza border days before onslaught; Sinwar last year publicly hailed Hamas TV dramatization of invasion as ‘what we’re preparing’

Soldiers from the IDF Commando Brigade take part in a large-scale training exercise in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 commando companies said diverted from Gaza border to West Bank days before Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Palestinians flee from Khan Younis to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 4, 2023 (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

IDF officials: 2 civilian deaths for every 1 Hamas fighter killed in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Red Cross is failing Israelis

It was MIA during the Holocaust, but it can still find its moral compass now and redeem itself

Returning home: The long road ahead

How will the government and the IDF convince me that security is available to my Western Negev kibbutz at a moment’s notice?

This combination of undated images shows residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz who have been freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, where they had been held hostage since an October 7 cross-border attack. Top row from left: Adina Moshe, Sapir Cohen, Ofelia Roitman, Irena Tati, Yelena Trufanov, Ada Sagi. Second row from left: Sahar Kalderon and her brother Erez Kalderon, Liat Atzili, Ilana Gritzewsky, Shani Goren, Channa Peri. Third row from left: Yaffa Adar, Nili Margalit, sisters Aviv, right, and Raz Asher Katz, Eitan Yahalomi, Yagil Yaakov, Tamar Metzger. Bottom row from left: Dafna Elyakim and her sister Ela Elyakim, Sharon Aloni Cunio, center, and her twin daughters, Emma and Yuli, Keren Munder and her son Ohad, Ditza Heiman, Hannah Katzir. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum via AP)

Inside storyOne in every five residents was taken hostage

Kibbutz Nir Oz, overrun on October 7, embodies Hamas’s hostage-taking strategy

By Lori Hinnant and Sam McNeil

Residents who survived describe how terrorists abducted residents with well-rehearsed moves; internal messages show horror of residents as massacres and kidnapping unfolded

A soldier mans the makeshift mass casualty morgue at the Shura military base near Ramle, October 24, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

14 kids under 10, 25 people over 80: Up-to-date breakdown of Oct 7 victims we know about

Age, gender data for most civilian victims of Hamas onslaught, based on media tally, provides a picture authorities aim to complete as they continue efforts to identify bodies

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger delivers remarks during a press briefing in Avully near Geneva, on June 7, 2023. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)

Visiting Gaza, Red Cross chief says suffering ‘intolerable,’ ICRC must see hostages

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Workers unload medical aid from the World Health Organization at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Army denies telling WHO to empty aid warehouse in southern Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

French gendarmes patrol the Trocadero plaza near the Eiffel Tower after a man targeted passersby late Saturday, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others in Paris, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

EU warns of ‘huge’ risk of Christmastime terror attacks due to Israel-Hamas war

Warning comes following suspected Islamic State-linked murder near Eiffel Tower over the weekend

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) welcoming the leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, (R) during their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, July 26, 2023. (Mustafa KAMACI / Turkish Presidency Press Office / AFP)

Turkey warns of ‘serious consequences’ if Israel targets Hamas members on its soil

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds the annual meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, via video conference, in Moscow, Russia, December 4, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin to discuss Israel-Hamas war on rare trip to Saudi Arabia, UAE

Rockets are launched by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, in Gaza, October 7, 2023. (AP Photo/ Hatem Moussa)

Report: Hamas rocket hit IDF base thought to house nuclear-capable missiles on Oct 7

Through analyzing satellite imagery, NY Times finds rocket impact on Sdot Micha Airbase caused fire to spread near facilities where sensitive weapons are believed to be stored

US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2023. (AP/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Senate Democrats upping efforts to condition US military aid to Israel

By Ellen Knickmeyer and LISA MASCARO

Sen. Bernie Sanders says concrete measures regarding the protection of civilians must be fulfilled for Senate to approve continued funding

Demonstrators march west towards the UC Townhomes during an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally in Philadelphia, Sunday, December 3, 2023. (Elizabeth Robertson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

White House slams ‘antisemitic’ protest at Philadelphia Israeli restaurant

By Jacob Magid and AP

Illustrative: Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter, of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel, lights a menorah during a public Hanukkah celebration and menorah lighting ceremony in South Philadelphia on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Ryan Collerd)

Reported cancellation of Virginia menorah lighting draws rebuke from governor

By AP and ToI Staff

Sharon Avigdori and her daughter Noam are reunited with husband and father Hen Avigdori and their son Omer Avigdori after Sharon and Noam were released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza on Saturday, November 25, 2023. (Courtesy Avigdori family)

Released from captivity, Noam Avigdori won’t let her father out of her sight

By Jessica Steinberg

Father Hen Avigdori describes loved ones’ small, cramped quarters in captivity, but says the fact that family members were kept together was key to their survival

Amit Soussana seen fighting against Hamas kidnappers dragging her into Gaza on October 7, 2023. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Now-freed hostage seen in video fighting against her 7 Hamas kidnappers on October 7

Family and friends attend the funeral of three members of the Sharabi family, Lian, Noya and Yahel, who were murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023, in Moshav Kfar HaRif, southern Israel, October 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Be’eri survivor seeks to retell Hamas attack via Oct. 7 WhatsApp messages

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers survey the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near the Israel-Gaza border, in southern Israel, October 15, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)

Reporter's notebook'I have to ask permission to enter the place where I was born'

Resurrecting Gaza border communities will take a lot more than sowing winter wheat

By Canaan Lidor

Despite optimistic images of return and rehabilitation, the harsh reality in the kibbutzim and towns wrecked by Hamas makes living there largely impossible, locals say

Illustrative: Prof. Amichai Cohen at a ToI Live event in Jerusalem's Israel Democracy Institute, December 15, 2022. (Oded Antman/IDI)

Behind the Headlines

Join ToI for: ‘Is the IDF acting legally and ethically in Gaza?’ with Prof. Amichai Cohen

On December 6, we speak with the Israel Democracy Institute’s Cohen, an expert in International Law of Armed Conflict and National Security Law. Exclusively for the ToI Community

Architects' image of the planned 'Lower Aqueduct' neighborhood in southern Jerusalem (Ari Cohen Architects)

New Jewish neighborhood partly in East Jerusalem given final approval

By Jeremy Sharon

Lower Aqueduct project will include 1,792 units on 46 acres of land straddling the Green Line; group charges plan part of ongoing housing discrimination against Palestinians

A demolished school in the abandoned Palestinian village of Zanuta. The school was funded in part by the EU, as well as other foreign governments. The demolition of the school comes following threats by local extremists settlers against former residents of the village not to return, December 4, 2023. (Courtesy Southern Mount Hebron Activists group)

Homes and EU-funded school in West Bank village wrecked after threats by settlers

By Jeremy Sharon

File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), and Economy Minister Nir Barkat in the Knesset on February 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Economy Minister Barkat plans to challenge Netanyahu for Likud leadership

Barkat said to tell Likud supporters that party needs new leadership to regain public trust in wake of October 7 failures

A hearing in the trial against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Jerusalem District Court, December 5, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Some Netanyahu trial hearings nixed as defense says PM doesn’t have time due to war

Israeli sculptor Yaron Bob (Courtesy)

'A lot of my friends were killed. I am a refugee now'

Near the Gaza border, Israeli sculptor turns Hamas ‘swords into plowshares’

By Matt Lebovic

After surviving the terrorist massacre at his moshav on Oct. 7, Israeli blacksmith Yaron Bob has brought his renowned pro-peace Rockets into Roses project to US communities

More Headlines

Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela (3L) holds flowers along with Hamas official Basem Naim (2R) during a march to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela in Pretoria, December 5, 2023, as Palestinian, Hamas and Hezbollah flags are waved. (Roberta Ciuccio / AFP)

Relatives of Nelson Mandela welcome Hamas officials to 10th anniversary memorial

By AFP and ToI Staff

Minister of National Security Minister speaks at the outset of his Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset, December 4, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

260,000 firearm permits sought since Oct. 7, after Ben Gvir’s push to arm civilians

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

F-35i fighter jets are seen at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel, in an undated handout photo. (Israel Defense Forces)

Dutch lawyers seek court order to halt export of F-35 parts to Israel

Israeli soldiers mapping out the home of Ahmed Barakat in Jenin in preparation of its demolition, Dec. 4, 2023. (IDF)

IDF prepares to destroy 2 Jenin homes of terrorist who perpetrated fatal May attack

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli information technology provider Matrix IT headquarter building in Herzliya. (Courtesy)

Amid war with Hamas, Israel’s Matrix is seeking to hire 700 new employees

By Sharon Wrobel

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

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during a press briefing at the White House, December 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US, allies mull naval task force to protect shipping in Red Sea after Houthi attacks

By AP and ToI Staff

View of a Cellcom store in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2019. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israeli private equity firm in talks to take over Cellcom in deal worth NIS 925m

By Sharon Wrobel

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