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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

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Freed hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen with his father Jonathan aboard an IDF helicopter en route to the hospital soon after his release from 498 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza, February 15, 2025 (IDF)
March 29, 2025, 5:24 pm
What Matters Now to Jonathan Dekel-Chen: US feels like the hostages’ only beacon
Father of released hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen reflects on his son’s sense of rebirth, the struggle to bring him home, and the continuing sense of abandonment by Israel’s government
By Jessica Steinberg
Then-Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., takes questions from the media, prior to laying a brick at a new housing complex in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, August 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
March 28, 2025, 1:15 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 28: Day 539 – Huckabee: Judge my actions, not my Judea and Samaria stance
US bureau chief Jacob Magid weighs in on Egypt’s ceasefire proposal, one of many on the table; Saudi normalization that’s now off the table; and the incoming US ambassador to Israel
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman
Israelis march in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his plans to dismiss the head of the Shin Bet internal security service, in Jerusalem on March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
March 20, 2025, 5:02 pm
What Matters Now to David Horovitz: Terrible external threats, tremendous internal division
Ahead of a fateful cabinet vote on the firing of Shin Bet head Ronen Bar tonight, ToI’s editor assesses how war-torn Israel is responding
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Protesters march for the release of hostages from Gaza and against efforts by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, on Route 1 outside Jerusalem, March 18, 2025. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2025, 1:14 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 19: Day 530 – US fully supportive of Gaza strikes, but Trump stays silent
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses White House support for Israel’s strikes, the latest on US hostage envoy Adam Boehler, and US payments to the Palestinian Authority
By Jessica Steinberg and Jacob Magid
Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, March 18, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
March 18, 2025, 5:50 pm
Qatar, Egypt demand resumption of ceasefire talks, slam Israeli ‘escalation’
Mediators reportedly seeking quick return to negotiating table; Jordan condemns ‘barbaric bombing’ while Turkey calls Israeli airstrikes a ‘new phase in its policy of genocide’
By Agencies
An Israeli army soldier signals for the driver of a Merkava battle tank attempting to park at a position in southern Israel along the northern Gaza Strip on March 18, 2025. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
March 18, 2025, 3:06 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 18: Day 529 – With US backing, Israel ends ceasefire in Gaza
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on the overnight IAF strikes on the Gaza Strip after hostage talks stalled, potential preparation for a larger ground operation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Syrian troops take position in the village of Hawsh al-Sayyid Ali, located 2 km (1.24 miles) from the Lebanon border, Syria, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)
March 18, 2025, 9:10 am
Lebanon and Syria reach ceasefire, ending two days of border clashes
Fighting sparked after Syria accused Hezbollah of kidnapping, killing three Syrian soldiers; Beirut has returned bodies, opened up channels with Damascus to ease tensions
By AP and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Israel Katz, center, visits an IDF position in southern Lebanon alongside senior IDF officials, February 2, 2025. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
March 14, 2025, 3:44 pm
Katz: IDF will stay at 5 points in southern Lebanon regardless of border dispute talks
Defense minister says ‘indefinite’ stay is needed to protect northern residents, tells army to dig in for a long stint; IDF hits Hezbollah target in Beqaa Valley
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) vehicles patrol the southern Lebanese city of Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, on November 29, 2024. (AFP)
March 13, 2025, 6:56 pm
Israel returns fifth Lebanese prisoner after border delineation talks
Hezbollah-linked outlet reports that 14 Lebanese detainees still held by Israel, including 7 alleged members of the Iran-backed terror group
By Nava Freiberg
A Palestinian boy carries a toy gun while standing with members of Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, during a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (AFP / Emmanuel DUNAND)
March 13, 2025, 6:00 pm
What Matters Now to Micah Goodman: What Israel can trust about Hamas
Bestselling author analyzes this moment of uncertainty — continued war or ‘permanent’ ceasefire — as 24 living hostages still languish in Gaza
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Israeli soldiers operating inside the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on February 9, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
March 9, 2025, 2:50 pm
Daily Briefing Mar. 9: Day 520 – As Gaza ceasefire reaches day 50, no sign of IDF pullout
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on where the IDF is operating within the Strip and IDF strikes on Syria and Lebanon. Plus, for Women’s Day, a focus on female officers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025, after Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the Palestinian enclave. (AFP)
March 6, 2025, 6:43 am
France, Germany and UK call on Israel to ensure ‘unhindered’ aid flow to Gaza
Hitting back, Foreign Ministry says Hamas is using supplies to rebuild and that ‘the only humanitarian suffering in Gaza is that of the Israeli hostages’
By AFP and ToI Staff
People protest calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, March 2, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
March 3, 2025, 2:15 am
US backs Israeli demand for new Gaza framework; hostage families: Move on to 2nd phase
White House doesn’t confirm Witkoff behind proposal to extend deal’s 1st stage, as Jerusalem contends; relatives of captives urge bringing everyone back before any renewed fighting
By Jacob Magid, Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff
A sprawling tent camp for displaced Palestinians sits adjacent to destroyed homes and buildings in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, March 1, 2025, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
March 2, 2025, 3:26 am
Israel endorses new US plan for half of hostages to be released now, ceasefire maintained
As phase 1 period ends, PM’s office backs what it says is Witkoff proposal for permanent ceasefire and all hostages freed by end of Passover; Hamas: Israel reneging on deal
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
A Middle East Airlines commercial aircraft prepares to takeoff on the tarmac of Beirut International Airport on November 1, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
February 28, 2025, 8:59 pm
Lebanon seizes $2.5 million bound for Hezbollah, local officials say
Sources say it is the first time such a seizure is made, as cash caught on man arriving from Turkey; Beirut has also halted all flights from Iran over alleged Israeli warnings
By Reuters, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
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