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Armed Hamas police officers patrol in Gaza City, October 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)
October 13, 2026, 10:59 pm
On ceasefire anniversary, US claims ‘real progress’ made in demilitarizing Gaza
Washington says building will be difficult but progress underway for Hamas-free rule and security for Israel; Kushner, Red Cross mark one year since return of last 20 living hostages
By Lazar Berman, Nava Freiberg, Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians and a market surround a heavily damaged building in Gaza City, September 17, 2026. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
September 18, 2026, 10:19 am
Fatal building collapse highlights dangers plaguing Gaza nearly a year after ceasefire
Rebuilding plans promised in October 2025 truce have stalled, leaving most Gazans living in tents or damaged structures likely to become even less safe as winter hits Strip
By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAM METZ
Combo pictures, clockwise from top left: Jaber Mohammadin in civilian attire and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform; Ahmad Adel Abu al-Hilal in hospital scrubs and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform; Abd al-Latif Abu Tuaima in civilian attire and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform; and Salem Jumaa Shirab in civilian attire and in Palestinian Islamic Jihad uniform. (Pictures from Palestinian Islamic Jihad social media, Facebook, social media; Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
July 27, 2026, 8:03 pm
Gaza death notices show some so-called health workers were operating for terror groups
Times of Israel review of Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcements finds that at least 18 of those identified as doctors, nurses and hospital employees in Gaza were also combatants
By Nurit Yohanan
Screengrabs of a video showing Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies and remains of dozens of slain Palestinians which were returned by Israel to the Gaza Strip, February 4, 2026. (X)
February 4, 2026, 11:47 pm
Israel returns remains of dozens of slain Palestinians to Gaza, Hamas health ministry says
Hamas says 54 bodies and 66 other boxes of human remains taken by Red Cross to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital for identification; Israel does not comment
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Mourners, some raising guns in the air, carry the body of a Palestinian killed the night before in an Israeli strike, during a funeral in Gaza City on July 29, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 29, 2026, 7:58 pm
IDF believes 70,000 Gazans killed in war, as claimed by Hamas; civilian-combatant ratio unclear
Figure, acknowledged by senior military official, doesn’t include those under rubble, who Hamas says make up 10K more; Israel largely rejected Hamas tolls during war
By Emanuel Fabian
Displaced Palestinians walk amongst the rubble in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip on January 17, 2026. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 17, 2026, 10:27 pm
Hamas operative behind 1995 terror attack among those killed in Gaza strikes, says IDF
Army says recent airstrike killed Muhammad Hamed Muhammad al-Hawli, who was responsible for shooting death of Israeli Yevgeny Gromov more than 30 years ago
By Stav Levaton and Noam Lehmann
A Palestinian boy, who was injured by gunfire while waiting for aid trucks entering the northern Gaza Strip through Zikim crossing, is taken out of an ambulance after arriving for medical care at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 27, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
September 17, 2025, 2:01 pm
Gaza’s makeshift clinics at risk of collapse as urgent supplies run out, study says
Peer-reviewed research finds improvised medical points overwhelmed, under-equipped, and continuously targeted after nearly two years of war
By Stav Levaton
Mourners, some raising guns in the air, carry the body of a Palestinian killed the night before in an Israeli strike, during a funeral in Gaza City on July 29, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
July 29, 2025, 6:23 pm
Palestinian death toll in Gaza war tops 60,000, according to Hamas-run health ministry
Report says majority of Egyptian aid trucks Sunday were looted as IDF shares video of alleged Hamas gunmen commandeering truck; more Gazans said to be shot while seeking GHF aid
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in southern Gaza, as seen from a humanitarian aid distribution center operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
June 14, 2025, 7:49 pm
Gazans say 35 killed in Israeli strikes, including near aid site; 2 rockets launched at Israel
Most of the casualties reportedly occurred near a distribution point run by US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation; IDF says it fired warning shots and struck an ‘immediate threat’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Displaced Palestinians push a cart with bodies after people were reportedly hit by gunfire near a food distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on June 1, 2025 (AFP)
June 1, 2025, 5:44 pm
31 said killed near aid hub in Rafah; IDF denies ‘false reports’ after Hamas blames Israel
Army says it didn’t shoot Gazans at or in vicinity of GHF distribution site; official acknowledges troops fired on ‘number of suspects’ a kilometer away but insists incidents not linked
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
A man walks past a bus inside a crater in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
May 15, 2025, 11:57 am
Gazans report new strikes at site where IDF targeted Sinwar, whose fate is still unclear
Israeli strikes across Gaza Strip kill over 110 in past day, says Hamas; reports say other top Hamas leaders, including spokesman Abu Obeida, were in bunker with Muhammad Sinwar
By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Blood and scattered objects cover the floor of Gaza City's Thai restaurant following an Israeli strike on May 7, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
May 7, 2025, 11:23 pm
Hamas-run authorities say at least 48 killed in series of IDF strikes in Gaza
Reports say airstrikes hit school sheltering displaced people, restaurant; IDF says soldier seriously wounded, several more moderately hurt in south Gaza combat
By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
A Palestinian youth walks around a large crater caused by an Israeli strike at a camp for displaced Palestinians in northern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 19, 2025. (AFP)
April 20, 2025, 6:42 pm
Hamas said to recruit 30,000 Gaza youths into its military wing
Saudi report says most recruits lack real training beyond rocket launching, guerilla tactics; at least 25 reported killed in IDF strikes across Strip on Sunday
By Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff
Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip's Khan Younis, March 31, 2025. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
April 16, 2025, 10:30 am
Report: Autopsies show some Gaza medics killed by IDF in March were shot in the head
Analysis by Hamas health ministry doesn’t say if any of the 14 aid workers had been bound, as Red Crescent has asserted; IDF probe is ongoing
By ToI Staff
A tunnel shaft uncovered by IDF troops in the Tel Sultan area of Rafah, in southern Gaza, in an image cleared for publication on April 9, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 9, 2025, 3:59 pm
IDF pounds Gaza targets, with one strike said to kill at least 29
Military says attack on residential building in northern Strip’s Shejaiya, which reportedly killed dozens, targeted a senior Hamas terrorist
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
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