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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 13, 2024

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Footage posted to X purporting to show an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, July 13, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law); Inset: The head of Hamas's military wing Muhammad Deif in an undated photo revealed in January 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Terror organization's deputy chief denies Deif was killed

IDF strike targets Hamas military chief Muhammad Deif; group claims at least 90 killed

By Emanuel Fabian

Arch-terrorist’s fate unconfirmed; army says Deif and head of Khan Younis Brigade were in fenced-off Hamas area surrounded by dozens of operatives; no hostages believed in vicinity

People walk past rubble and damaged buildings following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from western Gaza City's Al-Sinaa neighborhood on July 12, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

Army hits Gaza depot storing Oct. 7 paragliders; intercepts aerial targets near Eilat

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Troops of the Commando Brigade operate at UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza City, in a handout photo published July 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says it killed Shejaiya battalion deputy chief, found Hamas command room at UNRWA site

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Explainer

ToI Staff and Reuters

Muhammad Deif: Oct. 7 architect evaded Israel for decades, survived 7 bids to kill him

Israel on Saturday morning carried out a major airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip that it said targeted the commander of Hamas's military wing, Muhammad Deif, as well as the commander of Hamas's Khan Younis Brigade. While Hamas said dozens of people were killed, Deif's fate remained unknown as of the early afternoon. It was... Continue Reading

The head of Hamas's military wing Muhammad Deif (left) and Rafa’a Salameh, the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event after being shot in his ear, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/ Gene J. Puskar)

Live updates (closed)

July 13: Trump shot in ear at rally; incident said probed as assassination attempt

By Elana Kirsh, Michael Horovitz and Michael Bachner

Officials: Audience member dead; shooter was outside rally, was killed by Secret Service * Netanyahu: ‘Not absolutely certain’ Deif was killed; Hamas deputy chief claims he wasn’t

11:43 pm

How it happened: A timeline of the events onstage as Trump was injured
11:26 pm

Official: Trump grazed by gunfire, audience member at rally killed, shooter dead as well
11:20 pm

Prayers and concerns for Trump come from allies and rivals alike

Protesters march toward Jerusalem, calling on the government to close a deal to free hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, July 13, 2024. (Yair Palti / Pro-Democracy Movement)

Marching to Jerusalem for Sat. night rallies, families demand PM ‘stop sabotaging deal’

‘We’re all for settling the score with the Hamas murders, but not at the cost of our loved ones,’ says hostage’s mother after marchers hear news of strike on Hamas military chief

Hostage families decry Netanyahu’s handling of ceasefire talks in wake of new demands

The families of Israelis held hostage by Hamas decried Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of ceasefire talks after officials accused the premier of derailing the negotiations with his demand for an enforcement mechanism to prevent armed Hamas operatives from returning to northern Gaza. Netanyahu is also now calling... Continue Reading

Demonstrators call for a deal to secure the release of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, outside the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on May 27, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll finds 72% of Israelis think Netanyahu should quit over Oct. 7 failures

Rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov in an interview with CNN broadcast on July 12, 2024. (Screen capture: CNN, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Rescued hostage recounts abuse by Hamas captors, emotional reunion with family

Andrey Kozlov describes June 8 as a ‘birthday’ after daring op in which he and other Israelis were rescued, says he was afraid his family wouldn’t again hear him say ‘I love you’

Children queue with pots to receive food aid from a kitchen at the Abu Zeitun school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, June 13, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)

UNRWA says it’s raised enough funds to continue operations through September

By AP

Volunteers work to restore Kibbutz Kissufim, summer 2024. (Noga Grosvirt)

Reporter's notebook'The area is like one big Holocaust memorial'

As volunteers step in for state, Gaza border towns begin rebuilding from Oct. 7 ashes

By Natan Galula

In the aftermath of the Hamas invasion and as war continues, official aid for affected communities is unpredictable – and so is manpower. But residents are determined to return

Kenneth Jacobson

Hezbollah and the international community’s silence

Somehow, the world only started caring about displaced citizens when they weren’t just from Israel

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

The paradox of anti-immigration policy

In the West, right and left buck the science on immigration, while Israeli openness is a winning formula for national success

Zechariah Haber, left, with his wife, Talia. (Courtesy)

‘An insatiable curiosity’: Reservist killed in Gaza fighting gets posthumous PhD

By Diana Bletter

Widow, parents of Zechariah Haber, 32, collect Tel Aviv University diploma; biologist sought to improve crop productivity in harsh climatic conditions; others to continue his research

Illustrative: A soldier from the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate works at a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF computer chief: 3 billion cyber attacks against Israel since beginning of war

All attacks were intercepted and no computer systems were compromised, says Mamram commander Col. Racheli Dembinsky

Newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a visit to the shrine of the Islamic Republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran, on July 6, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranian president-elect calls for improved relations with Europe

By AFP

Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian claims EU reneged on commitments to mitigate sanctions following US withdrawal from nuclear deal, but he is looking to turn a page in relations

US President Joe Biden gestures during his remarks at Renaissance High School during a campaign event in Detroit, July 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Biden insists he’s ‘not going anywhere’ while trying to revive struggling campaign

By Jeff Mason and Makini Brice

US president strikes defiant tone on visit to battleground of Michigan as he seeks to put to bed questions about his acuity and overcome growing number of Democratic defections

US President Joe Biden walks across the stage to begin his news conference on Thursday, July 11, 2024, on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Donors to freeze some $90 million in pledges if Biden remains on ticket, NYT reports

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A family of people evacuated from Afghanistan is led through the arrival terminal at the Dulles International Airport to board a bus that will take them to a refugee processing center, in Dulles, Virginia, August 25, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

‘A manifesto on replacement theory’: GOP mass deportation plan alarms Jewish groups

Several organizations say policy appears steeped in theory which has antisemitic overtones, vow to challenge it: ‘We understand precisely where this hate and extremism can lead’

Liat Kimchie Braude (Dafna Talmon)

Liat Kimchie Braude51-year-old mother of six from Kibbutz Mefalsim

'Life is still a big question mark, and I'm slowly understanding that it won't go back to how it was, and we need to grow something new'

By Tamar Mor Sela

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President Isaac Herzog and Argentinian President Javier Milei tour Kibbutz Nir Oz on February 8, 2024. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)

Argentina brands Hamas a terror group, citing October 7 and its close ties to Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Two demonstrators wave the Palestinian flag outside the Peace Palace, rear, housing the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands,May 24, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong)

ICJ to deliver opinion on Israel’s ‘occupation of Palestinian territories’ next week

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative - A police command center in Sayreville, New Jersey (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Prosecutors: New Jersey white supremacist’s ‘ultimate dream’ was synagogue attack

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

The unveiling of the first F-35 fighter plane to be delivered to the Netherlands at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, January 30, 2019. (Max Faulkner/Star-Telegram via AP)

Dutch court: Government not violating weapon exports ban to Israel by supplying US

By AP and ToI Staff

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