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What Matters Most On Monday, July 28, 2025

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July 28: Cabinet reportedly weighing multiple paths on Gaza, including full occupation

Trump says kids are starving in Gaza: ‘You can’t fake that’ * UN conference on two-state solution held without Israel * 85-year-old dies of wounds sustained in Iranian missile attack

10:05 pm

UN: Over 5,000 Gazans under 5 have been treated for malnutrition in past month
8:31 pm

3 soldiers who refused to return to fighting in Gaza have prison sentences commuted
8:26 pm

French lawyer for Netanyahu alleges that Hezbollah put a bounty on his head

Analysis

Once again, Israel tried to restrict Gaza aid. Once again, its policy failed miserably

The Netanyahu government’s spectacular reversal points to an ongoing lack of a coherent strategy, and raises serious questions about Israel’s ability to win the war

A soldier stands near aid packages on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing, in the southern Gaza Strip, July 24, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

An Israeli soldier stands next to a truck at the Kerem Shalom crossing between southern Israel and the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2025. (Carlos REYES / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing July 28: Day 661 – Flood, not famine: Can Israel shift its Gaza aid strategy?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Piles of humanitarian aid packages wait to be picked up on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 24, 2025. during a media tour organized by the Israeli army. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Interview

Ex-US humanitarian envoy pans Israeli claim UN allowing aid to amass on Gaza border

David Satterfield, who served during early months of war, says dangerous transport routes, looting by desperate Palestinians severely hinder ability to pick up and deliver aid

People survey the damage from a reported Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025. (AFP)

In first, two major Israeli human rights groups accuse Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza

By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and AP

People hold a giant Israel flag at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on the eve of Jerusalem Day, May 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

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Freed Israeli hostage Iair Horn in seen in Kfar Saba, Israel, on July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Ex-hostage: ‘When there’s less food, there’s also less for the hostages’ in Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

Iair Horn, who is still fighting for his brother Eitan’s freedom, says, ‘My life is frozen right now. I live in a nightmare that every day they are kidnapping me anew’

A Palestinian woman carries a bag of food on her head in the al-Mawasi camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025. (AFP)

Hundreds of rabbis demand Israel stop ‘using starvation as a weapon of war’

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, right, attends a Knesset conference discussing Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 22, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Smotrich signals he won’t bolt coalition despite objecting to Gaza humanitarian aid

Finance minister indicates to party members the increase in deliveries is a tactical step ahead of a broader military campaign against Hamas

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir leads an Otzma Yehudit faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 21, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu didn’t tell Ben Gvir, Smotrich about Gaza aid boost, IDF ‘humanitarian pauses’

US President Donald Trump gestures as he meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump: Israel will ‘have to make decision’ on Gaza war, images of starvation ‘terrible’

By Jacob Magid, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Nava Freiberg

Netanyahu says Israel has allowed aid to enter Gaza throughout the war, otherwise ‘there would be no Gazans’; insists that Hamas steals supplies, then blames Israel for scarcity

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an interview with ABC aired July 27, 2025. (Screenshot/ABC)

Australian PM: Israel has ‘quite clearly’ breached international law in Gaza

from the blogs

The war within: A dispatch from Gaza

When the call came through on my IDF reserve unit’s WhatsApp thread, I rushed in from LA and jumped back into the fighting with both feet

Family and friends attend the funeral of late IDF soldier Bezalel Yehoshua Mosbacher, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, July 27, 2025. He died from his wounds after being injured in combat in the southern Gaza Strip. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

‘So much pain in this war’: Two soldiers killed in Gaza blasts laid to rest

Spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze calls for hostage deal, end to Gaza war while eulogizing officer slain in Khan Younis blast; 2nd soldier killed alongside him to be buried Monday

Illustrative: IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image first published on July 23, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

3 IDF soldiers dismissed and jailed for refusing to return to Gaza fighting

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

You don’t compare Gaza to Auschwitz ever

Even on social media, brandishing the Nazi death camp to make a point against the Jewish state is not an accident, but indifference or, worse, malice

How the woke right joined the left’s war on Israel

Both sides see Israel as the problem. It’s a narrative shaped over years by Islamic regimes’ investment in Western discourse

Former Hamas hostage Shlomi Ziv tells the story of his ordeal and daring rescue at the Valley Train heritage site in the Jezreel Valley, July 27, 2025. (Shaul Rachamim)

Reporter's notebook'This is how I intend to heal'

After a year of silence, former hostage Shlomi Ziv publicly shares story of IDF rescue

By Tania Shalom Michaelian

Launching a series of talks Sunday evening, the Hamas captive taken from the Nova festival on Oct. 7 tells a crowd of hundreds about his grueling ordeal and the IDF’s daring extraction

Illustrative: Riyad Mansour. the Palestinian Authority's envoy to the United Nations (at podium), speaks during a meeting of the UN General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City on June 12, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Ministers gather at United Nations for delayed meeting on Israel, Palestinians

By Reuters and ToI Staff

At conference postponed last month due to Israel-Iran war, France to urge other countries to join it in recognizing Palestinian state; Israel and US not attending

Screenshots taken from live footage of the Handala activist boat trying to break the naval blockade on Gaza as it is boarded by Israeli Navy forces, on July 26, 2025. (Screenshot: Salaamedia on Youtube)

Gaza flotilla seized by IDF towed to Ashdod, activists taken into custody upon entry

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF's probes into Oct. 7

Outnumbered and unprotected, Kibbutz Sufa was left to fight Hamas alone on Oct. 7

IDF investigation reveals nearly 50 terrorists attacked the southern community before reinforcements arrived, leaving one civilian and two local security squad members dead

Homes in the Gaza Envelope kibbutz of Sufa. (Courtesy)

Rescue teams inspect the damage to buildings struck by an Iranian ballistic missile in Holon. Several Israelis were wounded, some of badly, in the strike, June 19, 2025. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Holon residents fume at event feting demolition of homes damaged by Iran

Locals heckle dignitaries, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, at site where missiles destroyed apartment buildings, accuse officials of failing to empathize with their loss

An Iranian Jewish man prays at the Molla Agha Baba Synagogue in the city of Yazd, 420 miles south of capital Tehran, Iran, November 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

2 US citizens among Jewish community members arrested in Iran – reports

By ToI Staff and JTA

The two men were visiting family when war with Israel broke out last month; efforts underway to secure their release, along with three local Jews also held

Interview'Camps for the Japanese Americans were concentration camps'

The sole Jewish-Japanese family in American WWII internment camps faced antisemitism

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New book delves into how, fearing a fifth column following Pearl Harbor, the Roosevelt government incarcerated 120,000 on the West Coast, two-thirds of them US citizens, up to four years

Inside story

Officials duel over conflicting accounts of 50 Jewish youth forced off Spanish plane

Investigators still trying to determine whether Vueling had fair reason for removing summer camp participants from flight to France, or whether they were victims of antisemitism

Security forces are seen arresting a woman, said to be the director of the French Kinneret summer camp, after her group of some 50 kids was removed from an airplane in Valencia, Spain, on July 23, 2025. (X; used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Dudu Biton from the Israel Antiquities Authority holds a flint core to manufacture Canaanite blades found at Nahal Qomem, near Kiryat Gat, in a discovery made public in July 2025. (Shira Lifshitz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology'The site just kept expanding'

Rare intact 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade workshop unearthed in southern Israel

By Rossella Tercatin

The Early Bronze Age site of Nahal Qomem near Kiryat Gat presents hundreds of artifacts, shedding new light on trade specialization in ancient Canaan

More Headlines

Smoke plumes rising on the Greek-owned bulk carrier Magic Seas after an attack by the Houthis in the Red Sea, on July 8, 2025. (ANSARULLAH MEDIA CENTRE / AFP)

Houthis say they’ll target all ships linked to firms dealing with Israeli ports

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (left) and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, in a composite image. (Flash90)

Government plans to boycott AG after it dismisses her but before High Court ruling on case

By Jeremy Sharon

ZAKA team members analyze water patterns in the Hill Country in Texas following the flash flood that killed more than 135 people in July 2025. (ZAKA)

ZAKA volunteers help guide search for victims of Texas Hill Country flooding

Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky (right) is seen leaving the Lahav 433 police unit headquarters in Lod on July 25, 2025, alongside his attorney. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Two more suspects named in connection with Milwidsky rape investigation

A man inspects a vehicle that was reportedly torched by settlers during an overnight attack on the West Bank Palestinian village of Taybeh, northeast of Ramallah, July 28, 2025. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Palestinians say settlers again attacked village of Taybeh in West Bank

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, seen on November 7, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Former senior Mossad official questioned in Qatargate affair

Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, left, meets with Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani, center, and Mohammed Taha al-Ahmad, chairman of the Higher Committee for People's Assembly Elections, right, in Damascus, Syria, July 27, 2025. (Syria's official news agency, SANA via AP)

Syria says first parliamentary elections under new regime to be held in September

Tom Lehrer sings and plays piano at the Hungry I nightclub in San Francisco. (Ted Streshinsky/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)

Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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