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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 10, 2024

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An electrical room serving an underground Hamas data center, beneath the UNRWA headquarters, uncovered by the IDF in Gaza City, February 8, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Feb. 10: UNRWA head pleads ignorance after Hamas data center found under agency’s HQ

By Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

Katz calls for UNRWA head’s resignation as army casts doubt on claim UN didn’t know * Soldiers deliver oxygen tanks, medical supplies to Khan Younis hospital

9:56 pm

FM Katz calls for UNRWA head's 'prompt resignation' after Hamas tunnel, date center found under Gaza HQ
9:06 pm

'Oh, you knew': Israel says UNRWA 'chose to ignore facts' after Hamas top secret center found under Gaza HQ
8:44 pm

IDF delivers oxygen tanks, medical equipment to Khan Younis hospital used as Hamas 'operational hideout'

IDF soldiers fighting in the Gaza Strip in a photo released by the IDF on Feb. 9, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson)

PM says IDF must operate in Rafah, but will let civilians evacuate first

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Amid US alarm, Netanyahu says it’s ‘impossible to achieve war goal and leave 4 Hamas battalions’ in southern Gaza city; Sinwar ‘out of contact’ for 10 days; numerous gunmen killed

Illustrative: Palestinians displaced by the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip sit next to the border fence with Egypt in Rafah, Wednesday, January 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Report: Egypt warns Israel Rafah offensive may lead to suspension of peace treaty

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and IDF chief Herzi Halevi at the start of a security cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, November 16, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu said to believe Israel has 1 month to finish Rafah operation amid global ire

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza outside the Defense Ministry Headquarters in Tel Aviv, February 8, 2024.

‘The moment of truth’: Nationwide protests set to demand hostage deal, new government

Rallies planned in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and other cities; protester with megaphone reading names of hostages arrested outside Netanyahu’s Caesarea residence

The war cabinet meets at the IDF's Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

After rejecting Hamas’s demands, Israel said open to talks based on ‘Paris’ proposal

Yossi Sharabi, taken captive by Hamas terrorists when they waged an assault on Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)

IDF: Hostage Yossi Sharabi was likely killed as a result of IDF strike

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

President Joe Biden speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House clarifies Biden spoke of Israel when he said Gaza response ‘over the top’

By Jacob Magid, ToI Staff and Agencies

After lack of clarity on president’s comments, press secretary says ‘US wants to see Hamas defeated,’ but Israel must do so while protecting civilians

US President Joe Biden answers questions about Israel after speaking about the Special Counsel report at the White House in Washington, on February 8, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Biden sets new conditions for US military aid amid calls to limit support for Israel

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers on patrol in the flashpoint Palestinian town of Huwara on November 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Israel said worried US could slap sanctions on MKs, soldiers, settlers in West Bank

In this image taken from video, Muslim community leaders from several swing states pledge to withdraw support for US President Joe Biden on December 2, 2023, at a conference in Dearborn, Michigan, citing his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. (#AbandonBiden via AP)

Top Biden aide tells US-Arab leaders he has no confidence in Israeli government

In recorded meeting in Dearborn, deputy NSA Jon Finer also says administration finds some Israeli leaders ‘somewhat abhorrent’; constituency is key to Biden’s reelection hopes

Analysis

Key to toppling Hamas, Rafah now a far bigger challenge for Israel than it needed to be

Lack of operational plans to take over Gaza Strip meant the ground invasion was delayed, while civilians moved into the strategic border area and international opposition grew

Children stand atop a small hill near tents at a make-shift shelter for Palestinians who fled to Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 30, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

PM: 'Rating will go back up the moment we win the war'

Moody’s lowers Israeli credit rating, downgrades outlook from ‘stable’ to ‘negative’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ratings agency warns ‘public finances are deteriorating,’ predicts ‘materially higher’ debt burden amid war in Gaza; says lowered outlook due to ‘risk of escalation’ with Hezbollah

A sign for credit agency Moody's, on August 13, 2010, in New York. (AP/ Mark Lennihan)

To Taylor Swift on supporting Israel

As a Swiftie, I know you have the ability to go visit, to learn, to see for yourself. Please don’t close your eyes to the truth

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

A university president with a principled stand on BDS

Brown University President Christina Paxson could have hid behind policy when she rejected students’ divestment demands

Multiple Iron Dome interceptions over northern Israel, February 9 2024. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets at northern towns, 2nd such barrage in as many days

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

No casualties reported as Iron Dome intercepts many of the projectiles; IDF strikes in Lebanon in response to attack

A screenshot from a video showing damage caused by an alleged Israeli airstrike in the countryside of Damascus, Syria, on early February 10, 2024. (Screenshot from X used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Syrian military claims Israeli airstrikes hit near Damascus; war monitor: 3 dead

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch, Jewish chaplain at the University of Leeds, in the fall of 2023, during his reserve duty during Israel's war against Hamas. (screen capture: X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

UK university rabbi goes into hiding after death threats over wartime IDF service

‘Hundreds’ of menacing messages, phone calls targeting Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch for reserve duty drive him and family out of their home, as campus antisemitism flares post-October 7

People with placards and flags attend a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel rally at Hyde Park in Sydney on October 15, 2023. (Saeed Khan/AFP)

Australian Jews alarmed after list of ‘Zionists’ publicized, fueling harassment

By JTA and ToI Staff

Shiite Muslim devotees participate in a mourning procession in Tehran on September 6, 2023, to observe Arbaeen, which marks the end of the 40-day mourning period for the killing of Imam Hussein, a founding figure in Shiite Islam and the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, by the forces of the caliph Yazid in 680 AD. (Photo by AFP)

Report: Iran recruiting British Muslims on Middle East pilgrimages to spy on UK Jews

Evacuated residents return to Shokeda on February 8, 2024. (Nehorai Samimi)

4 miles from war: In biggest homecoming yet, hundreds of evacuees return to Shokeda

By Canaan Lidor

As 80% of southern moshav’s 132 families come home, mayor says it’s ‘immensely joyous’ to return but ‘we know this fateful war isn’t over’

Melan Halbi, standing, watches her peers compete at the Israeli Chess Federation tournament in Acre, January 2024. (Olga Volkov)

'Instead of just worrying about the war, it’s therapeutic'

Chess tournament makes mates of Arabs, Jews and Druze amid Gaza war

By Diana Bletter

In late January, the Israeli Open Championship in Acre brought all of Israel’s diverse sectors together to battle it out on the board, fostering community through love of the game

Ministers from the Palestinian Authority, the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt hold a meeting on the Gaza war in Riyadh on February 8, 2024. (Saudi Press Agency)

In Riyadh, Arab ministers agree to advance joint plan for post-war Gaza — diplomats

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates and Qatar reiterate call for an immediate ceasefire, seek ‘irreversible’ steps towards recognition of Palestinian state

Volunteers pick pomegranates at Moshav Zrahia. (Omer Melamed)

Israel Travels

These Taglit-Birthright alumni rushed to Israel to volunteer after Oct. 7 atrocities

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

With most flights canceled and an active war still raging, Diaspora Jews from around the world showed their love by working fields – and sometimes just lending an attentive ear

Cleavon Little, left, and Gene Wilder in a still from 'Blazing Saddles,' directed by Mel Brooks in 1974. (Warner Bros./Getty Images/ via JTA)

Film history'It has a very serious backstory in racial prejudice'

‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy

By Stephen Silver

Released 50 years ago this week, the film juggles bawdiness, genre satire and political critique, and is still revered even as most admit today’s Hollywood would never let it fly

Merav Rahaf. (Dafna Talmon)

Merav Rahaf52-year-old mother of four from Kibbutz Mefalsim

'We were lied to, betrayed, abandoned. After October 7, who can we trust? They slaughtered our people, and no one did a thing.'

By Tamar Mor Sela

More Headlines

Meta reviewing when ‘Zionist’ should be deemed hate speech, amid Israel-Hamas war

By AFP

Mazi Melesa Pilip (2nd from R), US Republican Congressional candidate for New York's 3rd district, speaks with reporters after voting early at a polling station in Massapequa, New York, on February 9, 2024. (Photo by Adam Gray / POOL / AFP)

NY congressional candidates Suozzi, Pilip face off, with Jewish vote up for grabs

Undercover Israeli forces operate inside Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin to kill terror operatives, January 30, 2024. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli targeting of terrorists in Jenin hospital may be war crime, UN experts say

By Reuters and ToI Staff

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks on his priorities for 2024 during a press briefing at UN headquarters on February 8 , 2024 in New York. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

Knesset speaker cancels meeting with UN chief Guterres, calls him ‘lost cause’

Weapons and Hamas flags captured in an Israeli boarding school, allegedly taken by a teacher who returned from reserve duty in Gaza, February 8, 2024. (Israel Police)

IDF reservist accused of stealing Hamas weapons, stashing them at school where he works

Romania's Andrei Ratiu, left, duels for the ball with Israel's Tai Baribo during the Euro 2024 group I qualifying soccer match between Israel and Romania at the Pancho Arena in Felcsut, Hungary, November 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Iran asks FIFA to ‘completely suspend’ Israel from all soccer events over Gaza war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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