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What Matters Most On Sunday, July 20, 2025

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Palestinians carry containers for water at a camp for the displaced in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

IDF set to begin ground operations in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah for first time

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Hamas has held captives in city, which saw hostage release in February; 2.7 kilometers of tunnels destroyed in Jabalia, other terror infrastructure razed in Beit Hanoun

Members of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, take part in a military parade along a street in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on January 19, 2025. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 20: Day 653 – IDF poised to enter untouched Hamas stronghold

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

An aerial picture shows a Syrian Red Crescent convoy carrying humanitarian aid driving across the southern town of Busra Al-Sham on July 20, 2025, heading to the predominantly Druze city of Sweida. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

July 20: Syrian Red Crescent says first aid convoy enters Sweida city

Locals, officials in Gaza say malnutrition rates soaring, worse than ever * UTJ’s Goldknopf says Netanyahu had promised Haredi military exemptions as part of judicial overhaul

8:02 pm

Report: Former Netanyahu aide to be questioned by Israeli police in Serbia over Qatargate, leaked documents case
7:02 pm

Sa'ar confirms he ordered not to extend visa of senior UN humanitarian official
6:44 pm

Syrian war monitor says death toll in Sweida province has risen to 1,120

Screen grabs from videos posted to social media show right-wing demonstrators shouting profanities at MK Ayman Odeh, and surrounding his vehicle, in Ness Ziona, July 19, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Right-wing protesters assault MK Ayman Odeh, attack his car, chant ‘Death to Arabs’

By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol

Three arrested for damaging vehicle; demonstrators curse the Hadash party leader, who vows he ‘won’t let the fascists win’ days after motion to expel him from the Knesset fails

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Families of hostages, former captives and their supporters march to the US embassy branch in Tel Aviv, during a rally calling for the release of all hostages, July 19, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Thousands at protests nationwide

‘Make Israel great again’: Freed hostage urges Trump and Netanyahu to seal Gaza deal

By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff

Family members of captives berate PM for not backing an agreement to free all the remaining hostages; protesters also demonstrate against army enlistment exemptions for Haredim

Analysis

Iran may still have 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. How worried should we be?

Despite Israeli and US strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, material for a bomb could have been towed to another location, or even another country, by pickup truck

In this March 30, 2005, file photo, an Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through part of the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Nationalist-religious rabbis are missing in action

Why is there no outcry? Are they so seduced by the idea of settling the land that they are willing to overlook murder, arson, and theft?

Twenty years after Gush Katif: Lessons we must learn

Two decades after Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, it’s time to confront the missteps, draw lessons, and reclaim unity

Yisrael Beytenu chair Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on July 7, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman warns Iran is ‘obsessed’ with revenge, calls for Israel to strike first

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Yisrael Beytenu party head says Israel has ‘no other choice’ but to again hit Tehran’s nuclear and missile sites; adds that if he were PM, he’d tell Mossad to work for regime change

This handout photograph taken and released by the German Federal Foreign Office on June 20, 2025 shows Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy (R) and Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (2nd R) greeting Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (L) prior to a meeting on Tehran's nuclear program, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva (Handout / German Federal Foreign Office / AFP)

Iran to hold nuclear talks with European powers within days – reports

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tribal and Bedouin fighters gather in the western neighborhood of southern Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze gunmen on July 19, 2025. (Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP)

Calm reported in Syria’s Sweida as tribal fighters withdraw

By Agencies and ToI Staff

More than 1,000 dead following week of violence in Druze-majority city that saw Israel strike regime forces in effort to aid locals

A protestor holds a sign reading "The new 'President' of Syria was, is and will stay a terrorist" in front of a Druze flag bearing the Druze star during a demonstration in support of the Syrian Druze community at Place du Trocadero, in Paris on July 19, 2025. (Bertrand GUAY / AFP)

Overseas Syrians protest in London and Paris against killings of Druze in Sweida

By AFP

Tribal and Bedouin fighters deploy in the western neighborhood of southern Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, amid clashes with Druze fighters on July 19, 2025. (Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP)

Israel preparing to send medical gear to Sweida as clashes persist despite ceasefire

By ToI Staff and AFP

Syrian war monitor says fighting across province ongoing, although Druze fighters regained control of provincial capital after booting out rival armed factions

IDF troops are seen deployed to the Syrian border near the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, early July 19, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Several dozen Israeli Druze enter Syria after allegedly acting violently toward troops

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Ministerial panel votes unanimously to recommend firing the attorney general

By Jeremy Sharon

Baharav-Miara requests High Court freeze the dismissal process until it rules on its legality, arguing that allowing the ‘unlawful’ process to advance is harming the rule of law

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd after the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Liberta in front of Palazzo Apostolico on July 20, 2025 (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

Pope urges immediate end to ‘barbarity’ of Gaza war after church damaged

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Leo XIV’s condemnation of ‘indiscriminate use of force’ comes days after IDF tank fire damaged Holy Family Church, which Israel says was accidental

Israeli flags fly in the crowd at Belgium's Tomorrowland music festival, July 19, 2025 (X, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Activists, citing ‘war crimes,’ urge Belgium to arrest Israelis at music festival

Hind Rajab Foundation claims to identify two people at Tomorrowland tied to ‘genocide’ in Gaza, shares photo of men waving flag of IDF’s Givati Brigade at concert

A protester is seen in a police van after being detained during a demonstration calling for the ban on Palestine Action, proscribed under anti-terrorism laws, to be lifted, in Parliament Square, central London, on July 19, 2025. (CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

London cops arrest 55 at rally outside UK Parliament for banned anti-Israel group

By ToI Staff and Agencies

More Headlines

Cpl. Dan Phillipson, who apparently died by suicide (Courtesy)

IDF lone soldier from Norway dies from gunshot wounds in apparent suicide

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative: Smoke at the site of reported Israeli artillery shelling of a Hezbollah target in the Lebanese village of Yohmor, in response to earlier rocket fire on Metula, March 22, 2025. (Rabih Daher/AFP)

Israel says drone strikes killed 2 Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

This aerial view shows a guesthouse built in the shape of an airplane in the Palestinian town of Qaffin, in the northwestern part of the West Bank, on July 2, 2025. (John WESSELS / AFP)

Sky is the limitPalestinian builds plane-shaped guesthouse in West Bank’s Area C

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Palestinian National Council 23rd opening session in the West Bank city of Ramallah, at his presidential compound, April 30, 2018. (Flash90)

Abbas says PLO body to hold elections by year’s end, for first time since 2006

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