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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 3, 2024

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US President Joe Biden, third left, and first lady Jill Biden, right, stand as an Army carry team moves the transfer case containing the remains of US Army Sgt. Kennedy Ladon Sanders at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, February 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Biden: 'If you harm an American, we will respond'

US hits 85 sites in Iraq, Syria linked to Iran’s IRGC, militias after fatal drone attack

By TARA COPP, Lolita C. Baldor and ABDULRAHMAN ZEYAD

Opening strikes target command HQs, intelligence centers, weapons facilities connected to Iran and regional proxies, in response to assault that killed 3 US soldiers

File: US soldiers patrol an area in the town of Tal Hamis, southeast of the city of Qameshli in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh governorate, on January 24, 2024. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Iran calls US strikes in Iraq, Syria a ‘strategic mistake’; UK backs ‘steadfast ally’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden, right, stands as an Army carry team moves the transfer case containing the remains of US Army Sgt. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Ga., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Sanders was killed in a drone attack in Jordan on Jan. 28. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Hand over heart, Biden joins grieving families of US troops killed in Jordan

By Seung Min Kim

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis kidnapped and held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2024. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 3: Hamas says it needs more time as Israel awaits response to hostage deal proposal

Terror group claims it will announce position ‘soon’ * Rockets fired at north, south * Three divisions deployed to Lebanon border, army says

9:33 pm

US striking Yemen as response to deadly drone strike expands beyond Iraq and Syria
9:05 pm

Hamas official: We will soon announce position on proposed hostage deal framework
8:57 pm

US conducts strikes in self-defense against six Houthi anti-ship cruise missiles

File: Yahya Sinwar (R) the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and senior Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh attend the funeral of Hamas official Mazen Faqha in Gaza City on March 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas leaders at odds over proposed hostage release deal — report

Gaza terror chief Yahya Sinwar said to back temporary truce offer while politburo head Ismail Haniyeh pushing for permanent ceasefire, plan for rebuilding enclave, WSJ reports

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, is escorted by Israeli police into Jerusalem's Magistrate Court to testify as part of a US civil lawsuit against Palestinian leaders, in January 2012. (Flash90)

Hamas seems to rule out key points of truce offer, wants release of Marwan Barghouti

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli troops and tanks are stationed along the border with the Gaza Strip on February 2, 2024. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Battles continue across Gaza, with conflict now Israel’s longest since 1948 war

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Army says troops killed dozens of Hamas gunmen in Khan Younis area over past day, as Israel sets its sights on southernmost city of Rafah

Displaced Palestinians walk in a puddle in rainy weather to get food rations at a makeshift tent camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 2, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)

UN: Gaza’s Rafah is ‘pressure cooker of despair’; 17,000 kids separated from families

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Photos of Belgium's Enabel office in Gaza before and after it was bombed on January 31, 2023. (Jean Van Wetter/X)

Belgium summons Israeli envoy to protest bombing of development agency in Gaza

By AFP

Demonstrators block a main road demanding an immediate deal for the release Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian terrorists, during a protest near the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on February 1, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

‘120 days underground with no air’: Gaza hostages’ families rallying Saturday evening

Main protest in Tel Aviv being held with warning that hostages are ‘in mortal danger’; other events scheduled nationwide; some protesters to call for elections

Analysis

A hostage deal would put goal of toppling Hamas at risk — but not out of reach

A national consensus on importance of restarting combat after long ceasefire will be key to withstanding intense international pressure — including from Biden — to end the war

Israeli women demand an immediate deal for the release of the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip at a protest in Tel Aviv, Feb. 1, 2024 (AP/Oded Balilty)

From the blogs

At Auschwitz: Musk, Shapiro, and the invisible Holocaust survivor

At 88, Gidon Lev agreed to step foot in Auschwitz for the first time in his life hoping to be more than just window dressing

Smoke from an Arrow interceptor missile is seen near Eilat, February 2, 2024. (Screenshot: X)

Israel’s Arrow knocks down Houthi ballistic missile headed for Eilat

By Emanuel Fabian

Surface-to-surface missile intercepted over Red Sea, in latest attack by Iran-backed group in Yemen

This handout photo shows Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meeting with soldiers in the IDF's Alpine Unit at Mount Hermon, February 2, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant warns Hezbollah that a potential pause in Gaza fighting won’t apply to north

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Interview

Gianluca Pacchiani

Egypt expert warns: Israel cannot afford to take Cairo’s cooperation for granted

Researcher Mira Tzoreff says unlike Qatar, which thrives with Hamas in power, Israel and Egypt share a common goal – ridding Gaza of Hamas

A handout released by the Egyptian Presidency shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in New York on September 18, 2017. (HO/AFP)

NYPD officers clash with pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters during a rally outside Columbia University in New York on February 2, 2024. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

Thousands protest outside Columbia against campus treatment of pro-Palestinian groups

Rally led by pro-Hamas group Within Our Lifetime, which endorsed and celebrated October 7; at least one person arrested

File: People enter and exit Harvard Yard at a gate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 12, 2023. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)

Harvard alumni backed by billionaires Ackman, Zuckerberg fail to make board ballot cut

By Agencies and ToI Staff

New York University students hold 'Divest' sign as they participate in a walkout during a national day of action called by the Students for Justice in Palestine at Washington Square park in New York on October 25, 2023. (Ed JONES / AFP)

Donations to major pro-Palestinian groups go through this Jewish-chaired NY nonprofit

By New York Jewish Week via JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Foreign Minister David Cameron in Jerusalem, January 24, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

British FM Cameron: Netanyahu hasn’t ‘comprehensively’ ruled out two-state solution

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UK’s top diplomat says he told PM to ‘start talking about the things that a Palestinian state could be rather than the things it can’t be’

A composite image of Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli, left, and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, right. (Flash90/Miriam Alster and AP/Markus Schreiber)

Likud minister likens UK’s backing for Palestinian state post-war to Nazi appeasement

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, meets with Saudi Arabia's Minister of Defense Khalid bin Salman, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Report: Saudis seek largely declarative steps on Palestinian state to forge Israel ties

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Researchers build a muon detector in a cave under the City of David in 2023. (Courtesy: Gilad Mizrachi / Tel Aviv University)

Archaeology

Unable to dig, researchers look to cosmic rays to unlock Jerusalem’s ancient underworld

By Diana Bletter

A Tel Aviv University team is using muon detectors to track powerful particles, hoping to build a 3D map of undiscovered tunnels, chambers and fortifications under the hole-y city

Illustrative: Police at the scene of a fatal shooting in the Bedouin city of Rahat, July 21, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police say man shot dead by civil defense squad in south after pulling knife on member

20-year-old and 2 others from nearby Bedouin community caught after jumping kibbutz fence; police think break-in not terror-related; man’s family doubts claim he attacked security

Police at the murder scene in Yarka where Anan Habish was killed, February 3, 2024. (Israel Police spokesperson)

Yarka man shot and killed outside his own hummus restaurant

Police arrive at the scene scene where Khaled Abu Juda was murdered, near Baqa al-Gharbiyye on Febraury 2, 2024. (Israel Police)

Head of Arab crime organization shot dead in north

Protesters demonstrating against the Kohelet Policy Forum carry placards criticizing Arthur Dantchik near Dantchik's home in suburban Philadelphia on March 26, 2023. (Roy Boshi)

'It may be a conflict of interests they can do nothing about'

TikTok’s pro-Israel investors face dilemma as platform blamed for fueling antisemitism

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish billionaires Arthur Dantchik and Jeffrey Yass support numerous Zionist causes, leading many to wonder why hate speech is proliferating on the service they have a stake in

Inside Story

In France, a celebrity flame war about Israel highlights shifting attitudes

Young Palestinian woman – a Hamas advocate – enjoys an outpouring of sympathy following a wealthy Jewish TV star’s rebuke of her remarks supporting the Oct. 7 massacre

Rima Hassan, founder of the Refugees Camps Observatory (Observatoire des Camps de Réfugies - OCR), in Paris, France, November 14, 2019. (Dominique Faget / AFP)

Police prevent activists from blocking trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, in southern Israel, January 29, 2024. (AP/ Tsafrir Abayov)

Protesters blocking delivery of aid to Gaza plan march to Jerusalem

Relatives of Israeli hostages and activists set to march all week from Zikim crossing to Netanyahu’s office, end with rally in capital

Left wing activists protest against the Israel-Hamas war, calling for ceasefire, in Tel Aviv, on January 27, 2024. (Itai Ron/Flash90)

Israeli peace group Standing Together says calls to boycott its work are ‘infuriating’

By JTA and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) and then-police chief Kobi Shabtai at the funeral of Border Police officer Sgt. Shay Germay at the military cemetary in Karmiel, January 7, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Cabinet said to pan police chief for ‘selective enforcement’ of Gaza aid protests

By Michael Horovitz

Tamar Asis. (Dafna Talmon)

Tamar AsisFrom Sderot, newlywed high school teacher, 8 months pregnant

'Fortunately, I'm already pregnant because I wouldn't have been able to get pregnant at a time like this. Our sense of security has been shaken to the core.'

By Tamar Mor Sela

Actor Brad Pitt, left, and director Quentin Tarantino pose for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' at the 72nd international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Pittfalls of aging

Tarantino reunites with Brad Pitt for director’s final film – report

Actor to star in movie about 1970’s ‘porno rag’ film critic, which the award-winning filmmaker, who lives part of the year in Tel Aviv, says will be his last

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