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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 2, 2024

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Smoke billows from the site of Israeli airstrikes on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila near the border with Israel on March 2, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

March 2: IDF targets Hezbollah in Lebanon; heavy airstrikes reported in central, south Gaza

By ToI Staff, Michael Horovitz and Ricky Ben-David

Three IDF soldiers killed fighting Hamas in Strip * US drops aid into Gaza for the first time * Four-day hostage march finishes in Jerusalem * Gantz heading to DC, irking Netanyahu

9:50 pm

Police to probe video of car driving on Ayalon with protester on hood
9:16 pm

Houthi leader says UK could recover sunken ship if it lets aid trucks into Gaza
8:59 pm

Report: IDF carrying out heavy airstrikes in central and southern Gaza

Palestinians run along a street as humanitarian aid is airdropped in Gaza City on March 1, 2024 (AFP)

Troops raid Hamas leaders' homes in Khan Younis

Calls intensify for probe into Gaza aid stampede as global criticism of Israel mounts

By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Allies demand answers on how deadly event unfolded; Colombia president echoes Holocaust accusations, announces end to arms purchases from Israel

Palestinians gather in a street as humanitarian aid is airdropped in Gaza City on March 1, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (AFP)

Survivors of Gaza aid chaos say IDF troops shot at them, a charge Israel denies

By Reuters and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 1, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

‘No excuses’: Biden announces US military to airdrop food, supplies into war-torn Gaza

By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff

Hostages' families and their supporters on the final leg of a four-day march to Jerusalem, March 2, 2024 (Yael Gadot/Pro-democracy protest groups)

Hostage families head to Jerusalem for rally after 4-day march; protesters urge elections

Crowd expected to swell as procession calling for a deal reaches the capital; anti-government rallies to be held week after mounted police, water cannons deployed against protesters

Families of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and supporters attend a march towards Jerusalem from the city of Beit Shemesh, March 1, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israel said to refuse further truce talks until it receives living hostages’ names

A UNIFIL (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) patrol drives past the wreckage of a car that was targeted in an Israeli strike on March 2, 2024, near the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura. (AFP)

IDF: Lebanon strike targeted Iranian militia members involved in rocket fire on north

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

One of 3 reportedly killed said to be weapons technician in division that operates alongside Hezbollah; military says it also hit positions belonging to Tehran-backed terror group

US President Joe Biden walks towards members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, March 1, 2024, to travel to Camp David, Maryland., for the weekend. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden ‘hoping’ for hostage, temporary truce deal by Ramadan but ‘we may not get there’

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president says teams working ‘real hard’ to try and hammer out an agreement before Muslim holy month begins, just over a week from now

US House Democrats from left to right: Becca Balint of Vermont, Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut tour the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanutah in Feb. 20, 2024. (Tal Shahar/J Street)

Back from Israel, 6 US House Dems accuse PM of ‘utter disregard’ for Palestinian lives

This handout picture provided by the Palestinian Authority's Press Office (PPO) shows PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh (L) presenting the resignation of his government to Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah on February 26, 2024. (Thaer GHANEM / PPO / AFP)

In Moscow talks, Hamas and Fatah vow to seek ‘unity of action’ on post-war Gaza

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Sofie Berzon MacKie at her new exhibit, 'Silvery Water and Starry Earth' at Jerusalem's Studio of Her Own gallery, opened January 12, 2024 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Be’eri gallerist finds hope and pain in exhibit about home, as she pines for her own

By Jessica Steinberg

Sofie Berzon MacKie and her family survived the Hamas massacre on October 7; now evacuees, they’re attempting to rebuild their lives

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israeli stabbed in alleged terror attack in Palestinian town; suspect arrested

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

57-year-old in moderate condition after being knifed in Dahariya; assailant reportedly attacked after discovering he was Jewish

Justin Danilewitz

Extradite Hamas terrorists for foreign prosecution

Trials in the US and Europe would be an opportunity to educate the public and create a lasting historical record

Alan Silverstein

Is Israel’s approach toward dismantling Hamas ‘over the top’?

In its vital aim of effecting regime change in Gaza, Israel is not the first country to grapple with collateral loss of life

IDF veterans do warm-up exercise as part of wheelchair basketball training at Beit Halochem in Tel Aviv, 2024. (Mark Nomdar)

Reporter's notebook'No other country... has this for disabled veterans'

Wounded IDF veterans find a home in Israel’s state-of-the-art rehabilitation centers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The Zahal Disabled Veteran Organization’s Beit Halochem centers expect to welcome a large portion of the projected 20,000 permanently disabled soldiers from the war this year

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addresses the media at Downing Street in London, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Amid anti-Israel protests, Sunak says extremists deliberately undermining UK democracy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PM says regular Saturday pro-Palestinian demonstrations have descended into intimidation, threats and planned acts of violence, vows to back up police when they take action

Ship hit by Houthis last month sinks in Red Sea, the 1st vessel lost in the conflict

Yemen’s internationally recognized PM bemoans ‘unprecedented environmental disaster’; Belize-flagged, Lebanese-operated boat Rubymar was abandoned after struck by Iran-backed group

This picture taken on February 27, 2024 shows the Rubymar cargo ship sinking off the coast of Yemen. (AFP)

Houthi supporters attend a rally against the US-led airstrikes on Yemen and the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in Sana'a, Yemen, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

US: Houthi surface-to-air missile hit in strike, amid ‘imminent threat’ to aircraft

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli protesters face off outside a planned speech by Ran Bar-Yoshafat, the Israeli reservist and advocate whose speech at the University of California, Berkeley, was derailed, Los Angeles, February 29, 2024. (Jacob Gurvis/JTA)

'They're rewarding violence and punishing a speaker'

Protesters dog Israeli speaker at LA Holocaust Museum after UC Berkeley event canceled

By jacob gurvis

IDF veteran and Kohelet Policy Forum deputy director Ran Bar-Yoshafat has been heckled before – but says the violence that university administrators capitulated to is unprecedented

Illustrative: Students walk through the Tel Aviv University campus. on Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Amid war, Israel academics experiencing ‘substantial’ career, personal harm – survey

By Gavriel Fiske

Israel-Hamas conflict causing difficulties for Israelis involved in international academic projects, such as articles in peer-reviewed journals and attending conferences abroad

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators at a rally in Times Square, October 13, 2023. (Luke Tress / JTA)

NY’s Hunter College investigates after protesters demand Jews on campus ‘pick a side’

Analysis

What would Donald do? Here’s what we know about how Trump would handle Israel and Gaza

While the former president hasn’t released a detailed plan on the war, he points to support for Israel during his first term and his posture toward Iran, which funds Hamas

Then-Republican presidential candidate, US President Donald Trump, right, greets David Friedman, who served as his ambassador to Israel, at the National Religious Broadcasters convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center on February 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Analysis

The devastation of Gaza was inevitable: A comparison to US operations in Iraq and Syria

Urban warfare has always been brutal for civilians — and the war against Hamas was designed by the terror group to be an extreme case

A view of the destruction in Gaza, February 22, 2024. (AFP/ Said Khatib)

Iris Apfel sits for a portrait during her 100th Birthday Party at Central Park Tower on September 9, 2021 in New York City (Noam Galai / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Obituary

Iris Apfel, fashion icon known for her eye-catching style, dies at 102

By Beth J. Harpaz

American-Jewish designer and fabric maven, whose clients included Greta Garbo and six US presidents, never retired

This image released by the New York Philharmonic shows Long Yu conducting a performance of Aaron Zigman’s "Émigré," at David Geffen Hall in New York on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (Chris Lee/New York Philharmonic via AP)

Zigman’s ‘Émigré’ oratorio, about Jews who fled Nazis for Shanghai, has US premiere

Performed by New York Philharmonic, Émigré evokes a World War II-era sound reminiscent of Rodgers and Hammerstein; organizers hope joint project can ease US-China ties

Nir Shohat. (Dafna Talmon)

Nir Shohat42-year-old father of three from Kibbutz Nir Am

'God, I want to go back, but I don't want to go back to my broken paradise life. I don't want to skate over what has changed'

By Tamar Mor Sela

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on September 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

‘We need to be strong’: Family of US reporter jailed in Russia yearns for his release

By Maria Danilova

Parents, sister of journalist Evan Gershkovich, share joy, pain of seeing him in Moscow court hearings amid allegations of espionage: ‘Just seeing his little mannerisms’

More Headlines

Illustrative: Evacuated Kibbutz Be'eri residents at a Dead Sea hotel, October 20, 2023. (Arik Zamir/Flash90)

At 11th hour, government okays funds for continued evacuee hotel housing

By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff

Workers carry the coffin and a portrait of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God Soothe My Sorrows, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo)

Putin foe Navalny buried in Moscow as thousands attend under heavy police presence

By Dasha Litvinova and Katie Marie Davies

South Africa's delegation, left, and Israel's delegation, right, stand during a session at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, January 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Nicaragua files case at World Court accusing Germany of aiding Israel’s ‘genocide’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A woman fills out her ballot as a policeman walks past during the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Hard-liners leading in Iran parliamentary election with reported record-low turnout

By AP

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