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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Abu Obeida

People walk past a puddle of water by a tent shelter erected near the rubble of a collapsed building in the Nasr neighborhood in western Gaza City on April 15, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
April 15, 2025, 10:59 pm
Hamas said to reject Israeli proposal that it disarm as part of 6-week ceasefire
BBC says offer requires terror group lay down arms, includes no Israeli commitment to end war; Hamas claims it ‘lost contact’ with hostage Edan Alexander’s handlers after IDF strike
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman
Images of those held captive in Gaza are displayed at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, on March 31, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 5, 2025, 12:50 am
Hamas says it won’t move hostages to safety, Israel responsible for their lives
IDF chief meets with worried families, assures them fighting will bring home captives; Jon Polin in message to PM: Enough with the paranoid TikTok videos, bring back the hostages
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida in a video address after the release of three Israeli hostages, January 19, 2025. (X)
February 10, 2025, 10:41 pm
Hamas says it’s delaying next hostage release, alleging Israeli truce violations
Defense minister calls open-ended delay an ‘outright violation’ of deal, orders IDF on highest alert as PM moves up security cabinet meeting to Tuesday morning; mediators said concerned
By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
The head of Hamas's military wing Muhammad Deif in an undated photo. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 30, 2025, 10:41 pm
Six months later, Hamas officially admits Muhammad Deif killed by Israel
Terror group also confirms deaths of other commanders in war; ICC expected to cancel arrest warrant it issued for Deif in November
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Members of Hamas's armed wing take part in a military parade along a street in Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on January 19, 2025 (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)
January 19, 2025, 9:38 pm
As it seeks to project enduring strength, Hamas says will abide by truce if Israel does
Spokesman’s video statement shortly after the release of three Israeli hostages comes as Hamas men parade in streets throughout Sunday
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
People check the rubble of buildings hit in Israeli strikes the previous night in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on January 16, 2025, following an imminent truce announcement amid the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 16, 2025, 8:58 pm
Israeli airstrikes pound Gaza, killing Oct. 7 terrorist as sides finalize deal
Hamas member who participated in Nova festival massacre killed in overnight airstrike, IDF says, amid dozens of attacks across enclave that terror group claims endangered a hostage
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Khaled Mashaal speaks in Doha, Qatar, August 28, 2014. (AP/Osama Faisal/File)
October 8, 2024, 6:37 am
Mashaal claims Hamas will rise ‘like a phoenix’ despite Gaza battlefield losses
Senior terror leader warns of ‘ticking time bomb’ in Mideast ‘as long as the occupation exists’; Hamas military spox hails ‘successful’ Oct. 7 attack, ‘humiliating defeat’ of IDF
By Agencies and Gianluca Pacchiani
Abu Obeida, spokesman of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, speaks during a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)
September 3, 2024, 12:38 am
Hamas hints six slain hostages extracted by IDF were murdered because troops were near
Spokesman for terror group’s military wing says special instructions were given to guards following successful rescue of four other hostages in June; blames Israel for their deaths
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Two posters disseminated by Hamas in August 2024 following a failed suicide attack in Tel Aviv, vowing to blow up Israeli buses. (Via Telegram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 26, 2024, 4:02 pm
Terrorize Israelis while eliciting sympathy abroad: Inside Hamas’s propaganda strategy
In accordance with its founding charter, Hamas uses a sophisticated media presence and uniform narrative to rally its base — and turn the world against Israel
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Footage released on August 15, 2024 shows IDF forces razing tunnels found on the Gaza-Egypt border (Israel Defense Forces)
August 15, 2024, 5:45 pm
IDF: Dozens of tunnels razed on Gaza-Egypt border, 17,000 terror operatives killed in war
Hamas, repeating claim that guard killed hostage, says captor acted against its ‘ethics’; it publishes propaganda image of Ofir Tzarfati, a hostage whose body IDF recovered 8 months ago
By Emanuel Fabian
Abu Obeida, spokesman of the Hamas military wing, speaks during a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (AFP/ Said Khatib/ File)
August 12, 2024, 11:50 pm
Hamas says its guards killed a hostage, wounded two others; IDF investigating claim
Terror group spokesman pins responsibility on Israel, says efforts underway to save two severely injured female captives
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
A Palestinian man walks amid rubble following an Israeli military operation that rescued four hostages held by Hamas in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
June 8, 2024, 10:24 pm
Hamas chief Haniyeh warns ‘resistance will continue’ after four hostages rescued
Terror group threatens remaining captives in Gaza following successful op to free hostages that was accompanied by intense fighting; PA’s Abbas denounces ‘bloody massacre’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
West Yorkshire Police officer Mohammed Adil, 26, charged with terror offenses for sharing posts in support of Hamas, leaves Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London, May 2, 2024. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)
May 2, 2024, 6:51 pm
British police officer warned he may face prison for pro-Hamas posts after Oct. 7
Mohammed Adil posted photo on WhatsApp showing terrorist wearing Hamas headband, captioned with quote from terror group’s military chief
By AFP
An armed Hamas terrorist walking around the Supernova music festival, near Kibbutz Re'im in the Negev desert in southern Israel on October 7, where terrorists from Gaza massacred hundreds of people. (South First Responders/AFP)
April 12, 2024, 9:40 pm
EU sanctions armed wings of Hamas, Islamic Jihad for sexual violence on Oct. 7
Bloc says abuses by the Palestinian terrorists include ‘rape and subsequent murder of female minors, mutilation of corpses as well as genital mutilation’
By Agencies
Palestinian men surrender to troops in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, on December 10, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 10, 2023, 10:17 pm
Netanyahu to Hamas terror operatives: ‘Don’t die for Sinwar — surrender now’
PM says surrender of dozens of terrorists in Gaza shows ‘beginning of the end’ for terror group; senior IDF officer says signs that Hamas breaking don’t mean war will end soon
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP
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