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2023-2025 Israel-Hamas war

US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Oncenter, October 9, 2026, in Syracuse, New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Trump says Nobel winner Pillay ‘hates Israel,’ slams Norway for not giving him prize
By Agencies and ToI Staff
US president says decision to give peace award to UN official who oversaw report that concluded Israel committed ​genocide in Gaza is an 'indelible stain' on Norway
Blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel, in 2024. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
Anti-Israel group petitions ICC to probe Israeli health officials for war crimes at Sde Teiman
By ToI Staff
Britain’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski attends a Green Party conference in Brighton, Britain, October 2, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
UK’s Green Party declares ‘Zionism is racism,’ calls for Palestine to replace Israel
By Lazar Berman
Jacob Magid
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‘You want to call Trump, Bibi?’: How incoming US president’s wrath was leveraged to close hostage deal
Jacob Magid
An Israeli youth makes a graffiti at a skatepark in Tel Aviv, September 29, 2026. (Ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)
October 10, 2026, 9:08 pm
‘Peace is not in people’s minds’: October 7 scars take center stage for first-time voters
Over half a million people will cast a ballot for the first time this month, and polls indicate they have a clear right-wing slant
By AFP and ToI Staff
People search the rubble of a collapsed building following overnight Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 9, 2026, before which the Israeli military had warned residents to evacuate the area. (Omar AL-QATTAA/AFP)
October 9, 2026, 5:36 pm
Almost all Gaza residents need shelter as El Niño threatens flooding, UN agency says
IDF says 3 Hamas, Islamic Jihad operatives killed in Gaza City strikes, while weapons depots belonging to terror groups also targeted
By Reuters and Emanuel Fabian
South African-born jurist and former UN human rights chief Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay, sits at the Nuremberg Forum in Nuremberg, Germany, October 9, 2026, following the announcement that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. (Daniel Karmann/dpa via AP)
October 9, 2026, 2:49 pm
Navi Pillay, head of UN commission that accused Israel of genocide, wins Nobel Peace Prize
Choice seen as rebuke to Israel and US; Israel denounces ‘grotesque weaponization of award, to legitimize anti-Israel hatred and prejudice’; committee chair hails Pillay’s work as ‘inspiration to those who seek more peaceful world’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Seven IDF widows have become friends and a support system for one another (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
October 9, 2026, 11:34 am
Together in their solitude: 7 IDF widows find friendship as they navigate life after loss
Their husbands were killed in the line of reserve duty. Now a group of young Jerusalemite mothers who speak the same language of grief lean on each other for support — and laughs
By Jessica Steinberg
Palestinian children sit in their classroom on the first day of the new academic year at a UN-run school in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, September 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
October 9, 2026, 9:56 am
A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for ‘hateful’ speech
Plan by Gaza Children Village opposed by educators in Gaza, with some fearing surveillance could be intercepted by Israel, while others object to efforts to censor teachers
By SAM MEDNICK
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023. At right is his military secretary, Maj. Gen. Avi Gil. At left is his chief of staff Tzachi Braverman. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
October 9, 2026, 4:00 am
PM’s ex-military secretary: Netanyahu prioritized political survival when he could have saved hostages’ lives
In bombshell interview, Avi Gil, who was in post on Oct. 7, alleges PM’s chief of staff falsified his phone records from that day; PM issues denial; opposition leaders call for criminal probe
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Then-Military Secretary Maj. Gen. Avi Gil arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 3:05 pm
Netanyahu’s former military secretary alleges attempt to alter October 7 records
Avi Gil, who advised PM on October 7, details ‘criminal pattern of behavior’ from Prime Minster’s Office to absolve Netanyahu of blame; Likud denies ‘politically motivated propaganda’
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Magen David Adom paramedic and paramedic course instructor Amit Mann, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists who stormed the clinic in Kibbutz Be'eri where she was treating the wounded on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy of MDA)
October 8, 2026, 12:07 pm
New recordings of paramedic’s final hours renew family’s push to access Oct. 7 records
Final phone recordings of Amit Mann, 22, surface 3 years after she was killed treating wounded at Kibbutz Be’eri, prompting calls from her family for government transparency
By Deborah Danan
Families and people attend the national memorial ceremony marking three years since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 12:07 pm
‘Every day is October 7, still’: 50,000 attend Tel Aviv memorial
Marking 3 years since deadly Hamas attack killed 1,200, family members remember their fallen loved ones, demand state commission of inquiry into failures: ‘Don’t rewrite history’
By Deborah Danan
A photograph shows the visitors’ entrance to the British consulate in East Jerusalem after the signs were removed on October 8, 2026. (John Wessels/AFP)
October 8, 2026, 11:32 am
Israel, UK announce last-minute deal that downgrades East Jerusalem consulate
Foreign Minister Sa’ar says move a response to settlement sanctions; UK counterpart Miliband insists Israel doesn’t have right to close office, but says he won’t take reciprocal action
By Lazar Berman and Reuters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from right) attends a security briefing during an IDF operation in Jenin on July 3, 2023. At left is IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and next to him is Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet is at center. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
October 8, 2026, 9:45 am
Before Oct. 7, Netanyahu was repeatedly told internal rift emboldening enemies – report
Top security officials, including Shin Bet and IDF chiefs, defense minister, said to have warned PM of danger from judicial overhaul chaos for months before Hamas onslaught, but he shrugged them off
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
An election poster for Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu that reads, 'We won't surrender,' in Tel Aviv, October 6, 2026. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
October 8, 2026, 2:35 am
Three years after Oct. 7 reshaped Israel, its political map is much the same
Voters’ beliefs have been cemented by war, with those against Netanyahu blaming him for massacre, while loyalists view reports that he was given prior warnings of attack as part of effort to topple him
By Ruth Eglash
Families and people attend the national memorial ceremony marking three years since the October 7 massacre, at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2026. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 8, 2026, 12:24 am
‘Investigate how it happened, don’t let time blur the truth’: Bereaved ex-hostage Sharabi closes Oct. 7 event with plea
Hosts highlight heroism of the fallen at Tel Aviv ceremony, attended by 50,000, organized by survivors of attack and bereaved families; opposition leaders seen in crowd; government ministers stay away
By Ariela Karmel and ToI Staff
Yehonatan Maatuf, left, who was injured in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza on April 11, 2025, about to train with Sagi Dovev at the House of Heroes in Or Yehuda on September 9, 2026. (Matan Siegel/Times of Israel)
October 7, 2026, 11:20 pm
After war put them on the ropes, a martial arts gym gives wounded vets a fighting chance
House of Heroes, founded by former IDF resilience trainer Sagi Dovev, uses MMA and other sparring styles to help rehabilitate some of the 26,200 soldiers scarred in body and mind since October 7, 2023
By Diana Bletter
Family members and visitors gather at the Nova music festival memorial site near Kibbutz Re’im in southern Israel on the morning of October 7, 2026, three years after hundreds of people were murdered by Hamas terrorists at the site during the October 7 massacre. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 7, 2026, 11:16 pm
A place ‘soaked with their dances, music and blood’: Nova victims remembered at scene of massacre
Memorial event begins at 6:29 p.m., echoing morning hour when party was attacked by Hamas terrorists; President Herzog: ‘We will dance again, we will live again’
By Jessica Steinberg
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