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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 28, 2024

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A worker rests as displaced Palestinians receive food aid at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2024. (AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Jan. 28: Japan joins growing group of nations freezing UNRWA funds over Oct. 7 participation

A dozen ministers urge resettling postwar Gaza at gleeful right-wing confab * Herzog: ICJ ‘twisted my words’ in its ruling * IDF hits Hezbollah targets as missiles fired at north

12:10 am

Japan says it is pausing UNRWA funding, is 'extremely concerned' about allegations
9:00 pm

Gantz: War against Hamas could last an entire generation, hostages must remain top priority
8:22 pm

Trump's ambassador Friedman: Biden hampering Israel war effort; talk of indiscriminate bombing an 'outright lie'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Security Council meeting regarding the Israel-Hamas war at the UN headquarters in New York on January 23, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

UN chief urges donors to restore UNRWA funds frozen over Oct. 7 allegations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Guterres promises those involved in massacre will be held to account but says funding necessary to ensure crucial services for Gazans; 9 out of 12 suspects fired, 1 dead

The commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the UNRWA headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, December 6, 2023. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

UNRWA chief asks donors to reconsider as Germany joins cascade freezing funds

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gazans celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the broken Israel-Gaza border fence, east of Khan Younis, October 7, 2023. (AP/Yousef Masoud)

UK, Finland, Italy join US in halt to UNRWA funds; Israel wants it replaced post-war

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

Joseph Avi Yair Engel, right, whose parents were Holocaust survivors and whose grandson was released from captivity in Gaza, speaks at rally calling for the release of the remaining hostages, in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

'We say never again, but it happened again -- at home'

Holocaust traumas, modern failings echo at rallies for hostages, against government

By Canaan Lidor

As world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, stories of survivors and rescuers take center stage at weekly gathering; six arrested as anti-Netanyahu protesters attempt to block roads

Likud MK Danny Danon is interviewed by Sky News presenter Belle Donati, January 26, 2024 (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Sky News apologizes after anchor compares idea of relocating Gazans to Holocaust

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up an Arabic copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' found in Gaza during a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2024 (Tomer Appelbaum/POOL)

Tells journalists: I fight Hamas, you fight me

PM: World Court’s handling of false genocide claims shows Holocaust lessons not learned

Netanyahu says South Africa serving ‘the new Nazis’ of Hamas, argues protests for hostages harms efforts for their release, spars with reporters

CIA director William Burns speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to examine worldwide threats on Capitol Hill on March 8, 2023. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP)

Israeli officials play down prospect of progress in talks

US sees signs of progress on deal to release hostages, temporarily pause Hamas war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

CIA chief Bill Burns to summit in Paris with heads of Mossad, Shin Bet and Egyptian intelligence and Qatari PM to discuss 2-month lull for gradual prisoner release

Left: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Paris, June 23, 2023; Right: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Jan. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool, File; Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

Report: Egypt weighed recalling ambassador amid nadir in ties sparked by Gaza war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, front left, attends a meeting with Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Hussein al-Sheikh, during a day of meetings about the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool photo via AP)

Inside story

US advances ‘contact group’ with Mideast allies to plan for postwar Gaza — officials

Countries to discuss efforts to reform PA, provide security for Strip; Washington pushes Ramallah to get behind effort, Abbas agrees under certain conditions

Illustrative: A handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's press office (PPO) shows (L to R) Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas (2nd-L) meeting with Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune (2nd-R) and with Palestinian Hamas movement's leader Ismail Haniyeh (R) during Abbas' visit to attend Algeria's 60th independence anniversary in Algiers, July 5, 2022. (Thaer Ghanaim/AFP PHOTO/HO/PPO)

PA official: If Hamas were to win elections, we’d hand it the government

By Gianluca Pacchiani

A protester calling for a ceasefire in Gaza interrupts US President Joe Biden during an event on the campus of George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia, January 23, 2024 (Alex Brandon/AP)

AnalysisGaza ceasefire hecklers present challenge to Biden as he campaigns for second term

By AP and ToI Staff

Victory, not ceasefire, is peace realized

Equating a ceasefire agreement with the Jewish concept of peace is, at best, naive and, at worst, malicious

ICJ ruling was the least undesirable decision

The Court’s interim ruling doesn’t hinder the IDF’s ability to combat Hamas – lsrael was right to put up a serious defense

ToI Original Video

A stop to the trucks

Desperate Israeli families whose loved ones continue to be held hostage by terrorists protest humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza, which they believe primarily benefit Hamas

IDF focused on destroying tunnel 'nodes,' not whole networks

US, Israel believe up to 80% of Hamas tunnels intact after 114 days of war – report

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli official estimates 20%-40% of network damaged or put out of order during war; military reports ‘high-intensity fighting’ in Khan Younis, skirmishes elsewhere in Strip

Israeli soldiers operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released by the military on January 28, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF tanks secure the area while Palestinians fleeing from combat areas in Khan Younis to Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, January 26, 2024. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Masses evacuate Khan Younis as IDF says many gunmen killed in city

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Inside story

Cathryn J. Prince

As suspended anti-Israel groups at Columbia go unhindered, Jewish alumni despair

When SJP & JVP were ordered off campus for violating school policy, pro-Israel students rejoiced. Now they see little change in behavior – and little enforcement against it

Anti-Israel protesters on the steps of Low Memorial Library at Columbia University, January 19, 2024. (Courtesy CJAA)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing Jan 28: Day 114 – Israel’s next steps in ongoing ICJ ‘genocide’ case

Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon explains the finer points of Friday’s ruling at The Hague, and previews a controversial Jerusalem conference on resettling Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip

A United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) fuel truck arrives at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on November 22, 2023. (Khaled Desouki/ AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Jan 27: Day 113 – UNRWA defunding may see Israel on the hook for Gaza aid

Ugandan Judge Julia Sebutinde makes her solemn declaration as a new member of the ICJ in the Great Hall of Justice of the Peace Palace in The Hague, March 12, 2012. (ICJ)

Uganda disowns its dissenting judge in court ruling on Israel genocide claim

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Kampala says position taken by Justice Julia Sebutinde opposing International Court of Justice findings on war with Hamas are her own, don’t reflect government

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron leaves from 10 Downing Street in central London on January 23, 2024, after attending a weekly Cabinet meeting. (Daniel Leal/AFP)

UK says it has ‘considerable concerns’ about ICJ ruling, rejects genocide accusation

By AFP and ToI Staff

Nasreen Yousef. (Screenshot taken from Channel 12/Keshet TV, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).

Inside story'I never thought I'd have a conversation with a Hamas member'

How a Druze mom fooled Hamas into revealing its attack plans on Oct. 7, saving her town

From attackers in her yard, Arabic speaker Nasreen Yousef found out where more terrorists were hiding, then got a Hamas operative on the phone and passed critical intel to the IDF

Mira Talalayevsky was 2 when her mother fled with her from the Nazis in Kyiv. On October 8, 2023, a Hamas rocket destroyed her apartment in Ashkelon, Israel. (Photo by Mishel Amzallag, courtesy International Fellowship of Jews and Christians)

‘I never imagined something like this could happen again’

Holocaust survivors relive past horrors as they recount Oct. 7 experiences

By Deborah Danan

Several Jews who survived WWII were caught in the carnage of the Hamas massacre. They say they have an important perspective to share, though they don’t all believe the same things

People light candles by the monument at the Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Survivors mark Holocaust remembrance under shadow of October 7, surging antisemitism

By Czarek Sokolowski

In Auschwitz, nonagenarian says southern Israel massacre a ‘painful’ extension of her death camp experience; pro-Palestinian activists in Italy refuse to delay rally, fight cops

A Holocaust survivor's photo and quote projected on the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, January 27, 2024. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for LIVE2TELL By Gillian Laub/AFP)

Images of survivors projected on NYC landmarks to launch new Holocaust archive

By julia GERGELY

Troops of the 226th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade carry out a drill in northern Israel, in a handout image published January 27, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

In north, IDF drills for urban warfare as health system preps for attack scenarios

By Emanuel Fabian and Renee Ghert-Zand

As Northern Command increases readiness for possibility of war with Hezbollah, wide-scale Health Ministry exercise gets ministries, hospitals, HMOs, Home Front Command up to speed

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers patrol an area near the northern Kibbutz Kfar Blum close to the border with Lebanon on January 25, 2024. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after rocket, drone attacks on north

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

More Headlines

This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Jan. 28, 2024, claims to show a satellite carrier being launched at the Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's rural Semnan province. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran launches 3 satellites into orbit together as West grumbles over program

Winners of the 2023 Climate Solutions Prize, awarded on January 25, 2024. From left: Prof. Yechezkel Kashin and Prof. Shanny Barath from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, northern Israel, Prof Brian Rosen from Tel Aviv University, and Prof. Menny Shalom from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in southern Israel.

$1 million Climate Solutions Prize awarded to three groundbreaking technologies

Tiny Byzantine glass weight discovered by the Temple Mount Sifting Project. (image, left: Zev Radovan, illustration: Razia Richman)

Tiny weights hint at pre-Muslim Christian presence on Temple Mount – archaeologists

By Gavriel Fiske

Turkish police officers stand guard in a cordoned off area outside the Santa Maria church after a shooting, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Worshiper shot dead in targeted attack on church in Istanbul

Screen capture from video of Israeli singer Tali Golergant's nomination-winning performance in Luxembourg's selection for an entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, 2024, January 27, 2024. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

She's a FighterLuxembourg taps Israeli singer as Eurovision song entry

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arriving in disguise at the Jaffa police station, January 25, 2024. (Screenshot/X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UndercoverPolice minister turns up at Jaffa station in fake beard and wig

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