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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 644

2023-2025 Israel-Hamas war

Cpt. Reei Biran (Israel Defense Forces)
IDF officer killed in apparent accidental explosion in southern Gaza
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Cpt. Reei Biran, 21, served as a team commander in reconnaissance unit; he is remembered as ‘a child of light, a brave fighter’; 2 troops injured by anti-tank fire in Strip’s north
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, center, meet with families of hostages held in Gaza, in Washington, DC, July 9, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
Netanyahu says hoping hostage deal will be finalized ‘in a few days’
By Lazar Berman
Matan Angrest was taken hostage on October 7, 2023 from his tank unit at the Nahal Oz army base. (Courtesy)
Bag belonging to hostage Matan Angrest found in Gaza, returned to his mother
By ToI Staff
Volunteers from Palestinian families guard trucks carrying aid that entered the Gaza Strip from the Zikim border crossing, June 25, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
Israel, EU agree to boost Gaza aid: ‘More trucks, more crossings, and more routes’
By Nava Freiberg
People place flowers and an Israeli flag at the site of a deadly attack outside the Boulder County Courthouse on June 2, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. (Chet Strange / Getty Images via AFP)
July 11, 2025, 5:05 pm
ADL survey: 1 in 4 Americans believe recent attacks on US Jews are ‘understandable’
38% believe attacks against US Jews will stop if Israel halts war against Hamas in Gaza, another 24% believe attacks are false flag operations meant to increase support for Israel
By Grace Gilson
This screenshot from a Hamas video published July 10, 2025, shows terror operatives attacking Israeli troops carrying out demolition work in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, on July 9, 2025. (Hamas, via Telegram)
July 11, 2025, 2:56 pm
Hamas clip of killing, attempted abduction of soldier seems to contradict IDF account
Edited footage published by terror group doesn’t show a struggle with the serviceman; Israel kills PIJ commander in Shejaiya; UN says 798 killed while seeking aid in Gaza since May
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Tel Aviv District Court before the start of his testimony in his corruption trial, on April 2, 2025.
From the WebJuly 11, 2025, 2:18 pm
The inside story of how Netanyahu prolonged the Gaza war to stay in power
A major New York Times piece delves into ‘one of the most sensitive accusations’ about PM’s conduct of the war — that he has kept it going for his own political benefit
Matan Angrest was taken hostage on October 7, 2023 from his tank unit at the Nahal Oz army base. (Courtesy)
July 11, 2025, 1:25 pm
Bag belonging to hostage Matan Angrest found in Gaza, returned to his mother
Anat Angrest recounts receiving the item, which bears Matan’s name in her handwriting; says she’d rather receive her son than ‘objects that attest to his condition’
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian vegetable merchant shows worn-out Israeli currency, July 9, 2025, in Gaza City. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
July 11, 2025, 1:14 pm
Ongoing war sees Gaza residents paying middlemen 40% cut to get their own cash
Territory’s economy has become entirely dependent on cash, giving immense power to cash brokers; new practice of money repair has emerged, but even then, some notes are rejected
By AP and ToI Staff
Cpt. Reei Biran (Israel Defense Forces)
July 11, 2025, 12:05 pm
IDF officer killed in apparent accidental explosion in southern Gaza
Cpt. Reei Biran, 21, served as a team commander in reconnaissance unit; he is remembered as ‘a child of light, a brave fighter’; 2 troops injured by anti-tank fire in Strip’s north
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Keith Siegel (Flash90)
July 11, 2025, 7:31 am
Friday Focus: Former hostage Keith Siegel wants to have hope
Israeli-American speaks about the hostages with whom he was held captive in Gaza, and his need to speak out for those who are still there
By Jessica Steinberg
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, center, meet with families of hostages held in Gaza, in Washington, DC, July 9, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
July 11, 2025, 5:19 am
Netanyahu says hoping hostage deal will be finalized ‘in a few days’
In US interview, PM says Israel will use 60-day Gaza ceasefire ‘to try to negotiate an end to this,’ pledges to both ‘defeat these monsters and get our hostages back’
By Lazar Berman
Former hostage Romi Gonen before her release from Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv, July 10, 2025. (Instagram)
July 10, 2025, 5:43 pm
Freed hostage Romi Gonen released from hospital: ‘Another step toward my freedom’
Gonen underwent two surgeries in her half-year in hospital, will return for another; says she has mixed feelings upon release, her heart is in Gaza with hostages
By Michael Horovitz
Volunteers from Palestinian families guard trucks carrying aid that entered the Gaza Strip from the Zikim border crossing, June 25, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
July 10, 2025, 4:45 pm
Israel, EU agree to boost Gaza aid: ‘More trucks, more crossings, and more routes’
Israel to open several aid corridors, including through Egypt and Jordan, allow bakeries and kitchens to reopen, ensure security for aid workers, repair vital infrastructure
By Nava Freiberg
Relatives mourn over the bodies of Manal Abd Rabbo and her sister Fatima, who were among 13 people, including two women and eight children, reported killed in an Israeli strike while waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
July 10, 2025, 4:24 pm
Gaza officials say 8 children among 13 killed in strike IDF says targeted Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist
IDF says it’s probing reports of civilian casualties in incident that appears to hit medical clinic; footage shows bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust and screaming
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff
A July 4, 2025, handout photo of IDF forces operating in the Gaza Strip. (IDF)
July 10, 2025, 1:42 pm
Daily Briefing July 10: Day 643 – IDF executes ground ops in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian delves into the current status of fighting inside the Strip and in the north and a pair of deadly incidents that saw the loss of six IDF soldiers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
Palestinians gather at an aid distribution point set up by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), near the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on June 25, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
July 10, 2025, 1:41 pm
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it will start delivering aid via community leaders
After ‘successful pilot,’ US- and Israel-backed group says it will ramp up food distribution tenfold through local groups; current system exposes aid seekers to dangers, difficulties
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Houthi gunmen storming the bridge of the Iberian-flagged cargo ship Magic Seas before they sank it July 8, 2025. (Houthi Media Office)
July 10, 2025, 1:33 pm
Houthi videos show attacks that sank two ships in Red Sea this week
Missiles, drones, attack boats used; 4 killed on Eternity C, 10 rescued, 11 missing; rebels chant ‘death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews’ as ship sinks; Magic Seas crew escaped
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this March 12, 2016, photo Google co-founder Sergey Brin speaks during a press conference after finishing the third match of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
July 10, 2025, 1:01 pm
Google co-founder decries ‘antisemitic’ UN for report on tech aid to Gaza ‘genocide’
Sergey Brin said to tell employees they should ‘be careful citing transparently antisemitic’ UN, after report says company’s cloud support of Israel enables Gaza war crimes
By ToI Staff
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