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What Matters Most On Thursday, March 7, 2024

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Israeli soldiers stand near the body of a Palestinian terrorist in Kibbutz Kfar Aza near the Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023. (Thomas COEX / AFP)

IDF launches internal probes into missteps, misconceptions in lead-up to October 7

By Emanuel Fabian

Findings set to be presented to IDF chief of staff by beginning of June; review to focus on army’s perception of Gaza, intel assessments, fighting amid onslaught

File: Palestinian workers enter Israel after crossing from Gaza, on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Report: Shin Bet debunks idea that Gazan workers spied en masse for Hamas pre-Oct. 7

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on March 6, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas envoys leave Cairo, with deadlocked hostage deal talks to resume next week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Egypt says negotiations at an impasse over terror group’s demand for permanent ceasefire, making deal by Ramadan unlikely; Hamas official claims Israel ‘thwarting’ efforts

Palestinians sit by their belongings after visiting buildings destroyed in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, March 6, 2024. (Mohammed Dahman/AP)

Hopes reportedly fading to set up lull in Gaza fighting before start of Ramadan

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Displaced Palestinians carry their belongings through a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 6, 2024. (AFP)

Report: US quietly approved more than 100 arms sales to Israel since October 7

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Live updates (closed)

March 7: CIA chief said in region to try and salvage floundering hostage talks

By Joshua Davidovich, Ricky Ben-David and ToI Staff

Burns arrives in Doha after spending day in Egypt in last-ditch effort to secure deal by Ramadan * Biden to announce effort to establish Gaza maritime corridor in SOTU address

9:13 pm

New lawsuit against MIT accuses university of allowing antisemitism on campus
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3 rockets fired from Gaza toward Sderot; 1 projectile makes impact with no injuries, damage
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CIA director expected in region as hostage talks appear to flounder — report

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IDF soldier killed, 13 wounded in battles with Hamas in southern Gaza

By Emanuel Fabian

Death of canine unit’s David Sasson raises IDF toll to 247; head of central Gaza rocket unit killed in strike, Oct. 7 massacre participants also hit; 250 Hamas, PIJ members nabbed

Staff Sgt. David Sasson, 21, killed fighting in Gaza on March 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Armed members of the "People's Protection Committees" patrol the streets of Gaza's southern city of Rafah on March 6, 2024. (Said Khatib/AFP)

In Rafah, armed ‘vigilantes’ seek to enforce Hamas rule after IDF strikes on police

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Displaced Palestinians carry their belongings through a street in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 6, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)

South Africa appeals to ICJ for further measures against Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

War cabinet minister Benny Gantz (L) meets with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) and UK National Security Adviser Tim Barrow (C) in London on March 6, 2024. (David Cameron/X)

Sunak joins adviser’s talks with Gantz after Cameron presses him on Gaza aid crisis

English language readout from war cabinet minister’s office says he stressed Israeli support for solutions to current humanitarian crisis; Hebrew readout on UK meetings mum on issue

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In East Jerusalem, hopes for a calm Ramadan mix with fears of Al-Aqsa restrictions

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Islamic holy month already marred by high death toll in Gaza war, and residents worry potential curbs on access to holy compound will lead to unrest in Palestinian parts of city

People sit together to break their Ramadan fast at the end of the last day of the Muslim holy month and the start of the holiday of Eid al-fitr, near the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 20, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

This black-and-white image released by the US military's Central Command shows the fire aboard the bulk carrier True Confidence after a missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden on, March 6, 2024. (US Central Command via AP)

2 Filipino, 1 Vietnamese sailor killed in first fatal Houthi attack on merchant ship

M/V True Confidence’s managers say rest of crew taken to Djibouti; Manila working to figure out condition of others who were on board, repatriate them

This photograph shared by Indian navy on the X platform shows a firefighting team from Indian Navy vessel INS Kolkata responding to a fire on Liberian-flagged Merchant ship MSC Sky II caused due to a suspected drone/missile attack in the Gulf of Aden, March 5, 2024. (Indian Navy on X via AP)

In first, Yemen’s Houthis kill sailors in attack on commercial ship

By Jon Gambrell and TARA COPP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene of the disaster on Mount Meron, in northern Israel on April 30, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Likud derides inquiry on deadly Meron crush as ‘political weapon’ against Netanyahu

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

PM’s party rails at critics after they link 2021 disaster to Oct. 7, with Lapid slamming ‘pattern of neglect’; top cop and an ex-minister take responsibility; AG renews criminal probe

Security officials and rescuers at the scene of a fatal crush during Lag B'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (AP Photo)

Full text of inquiry’s findings on officials’ responsibility for 2021 Meron disaster

United Torah Judaism leader Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf in Tel Aviv on February 4, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox parties: We’ll learn lessons of inquiry into deadly 2021 Meron crush

Shas minister pans PM’s Likud party for painting commission’s work as politically motivated, demands retraction; Likud minister Barkat urges Netanyahu to take responsibility

Victims of the April 30, 2021, Mount Meron disaster: Top row (L-R): Chen Doron, Haim Rock, Ariel Tzadik, Yossi Kohn, Yisrael Anakvah, Yishai Mualem, Yosef Mastorov, Elkana Shiloh and Moshe Levy; 2nd row (L-R): Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz, Shmuel Zvi Klagsbald, Mordechai Fakata, Dubi Steinmetz, Abraham Daniel Ambon, Eliezer Gafner, Yosef Greenbaum, Yehuda Leib Rubin and Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yehoshua Englard, Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yedidia Hayut, Moshe Ben Shalom, David Krauss, Eliezer Tzvi Joseph, Yosef Yehuda Levy and Yosef Amram Tauber; 4th row (L-R): Menachem Knoblowitz, Elazar Yitzchok Koltai, Yosef David Elhadad, Shraga Gestetner, Yonatan Hebroni, Shimon Matalon, Elazar Mordechai Goldberg, Moshe Bergman and Daniel Morris; 5th row (L-R): Ariel Achdut, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, Hanoch Slod, Yedidya Fogel, Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Moshe Tzarfati, Nahman Kirshbaum and Eliyahu Cohen.

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US President Joe Biden attends a meeting of his Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 5, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Biden to give make-or-break State of the Union speech as Trump rematch looms

US president, 81, will seek to quell concerns over his age, fitness to take on Republican candidate, as well as to show compelling policy on economy, wars in Gaza, Ukraine

Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley walks out to speak during a news conference, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, in Charleston, SC. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Nikki Haley ends White House bid, clearing path for a Trump-Biden rematch

By Gram Slattery and Joseph Ax

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This picture taken during a media tour organized by the Israeli army on February 8, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers inside an evacuated compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Norwegian FM predicts UNRWA donor countries that froze funding will reverse course

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Espen Barth Eide says many likely having second thoughts after suspending payments over participation of agency staffers in Oct. 7 onslaught; Qatar, Iraq pledge $25 million each

Illustrative: Palestinians transport bags of flour as humanitarian aid arrives in Gaza City on March 6, 2024. (AFP)

Turkish Red Crescent shipping 3,000 tons of aid to Gaza, largest package yet

By Reuters and ToI Staff

People walk past the damaged Gaza City headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) on February 15, 2024. (AFP)

After freeze, Canada said planning to restore funding to UNRWA

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian FSB forces stand over Islamic State terrorists killed in a firefight, in Kaluga, Russia, March 7, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Russia says it thwarted Islamic State plot to attack Moscow synagogue

By AFP and ToI Staff

State media says suspects resisted arrest, were ‘neutralized’ by return fire; authorities seize weapons, improvised explosive during raid

File: Rafael Grossi (C), director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) opens the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on November 22, 2023. (Joe Klamar / AFP)

US slams Iran for ‘stonewalling’ IAEA probe into unexplained uranium traces

By Francois Murphy

Washington says it will seek a ‘comprehensive report’ on Tehran’s nuclear activities if it won’t cooperate with UN watchdog, then may ‘take appropriate action’

A student looks at Iran's domestically built centrifuges in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

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