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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Gaza violence

Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in Gaza, delivers a speech during a meeting with people at a hall on the sea side of Gaza City, April 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
May 15, 2023, 12:39 pm
Hamas, undeterred, sat on the sidelines as Islamic Jihad and Israel slugged it out
Though Gaza’s ruling terror group has shown it can impose its will on other factions, in recent rounds of fighting Israel has not forced it to exercise its sovereignty
By Lazar Berman
The Backstreet Boys performing in Rishon Lezion on April 22, 2018. (Courtesy: Orit Pnini)
May 12, 2023, 5:53 pm
Saturday’s Backstreet Boys concert in Israel canceled as conflict with Gaza drags on
Authorities scrap Rishon Lezion show because of security considerations
By ToI Staff and Melanie Lidman
Singer Aviv Geffen performs live at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv on May 11, 2023. (Koko/Flash90)
May 11, 2023, 10:41 pm
Tens of thousands attend Tel Aviv outdoor rock concert despite threat of rockets
With Gaza barrages ongoing and first Israeli fatality just hours before, crowds stream to Aviv Geffen show; video shows Iron Dome intercept rockets in the distance
By ToI Staff
A man interrupts an interview with Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen in the southern town of Sderot, May 2, 2023. (Channel 13 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 3, 2023, 10:09 pm
Far-right MK caught on cam staging heckling of his own interview on Gaza rockets
In another TV appearance, Otzma Yehudit’s Almog Cohen enters screaming match with a second man who needled him
By ToI Staff
Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 6, 2022. (AFP)
August 6, 2022, 5:57 pm
‘Enough!’: Exhausted Gazans suffer again in war between terror group and Israel
‘Each month or each year there is a war,’ one resident laments amid latest fighting; ‘I hope this escalation won’t turn into a bigger conflict,’ another says
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Lt. Col. Mahmoud Khir al-Din (right) and his wife Nahed, in an undated photograph published by the military on May 15, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 16, 2022, 10:57 am
Druze officer killed in 2018 Gaza raid had denounced Nation-State Law
Lt. Col. Mahmoud Kheir el-Din’s criticism of the controversial 2018 law, weeks before his death, helps reignite government calls for action to amend legislation
By ToI Staff
An online bake sale to combat antisemitism has drawn many Jewish participants; Daniela Weiner, right, is among the few non-Jews to participate (Sale ad courtesy of Whitney Fisch; other pictures courtesy of Weiner)
June 5, 2021, 2:51 am
US bake sale against antisemitism draws Jewish foodies, few non-Jewish allies
Organizers hope to use funds to fight growing expressions of hate in America; but they also say some social justice and civil rights advocates have ‘straight-up ignored’ them
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Smoke rises following Israeli missile strikes on Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
May 14, 2021, 6:30 am
‘Reconsider travel to Israel’: US issues advisory for Israel, West Bank and Gaza
State Department warns of conflict between Israel and Hamas, as well as ethnic riots inside Israel; Pentagon pulls out personnel from region
By Jacob Magid and AP
Illustrative: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
April 28, 2021, 12:42 am
After a day of quiet, Gaza terrorists fire 2 mortar shells toward Israel
IDF says projectiles fell inside Strip, triggering alarms in Kissufim region; dozens of rockets were fired into Israel over weekend, prompting warnings of harsh response
By ToI Staff
Smoke trails from a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists are seen over the Gaza Strip on February 24, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
February 24, 2020, 5:55 pm
Fresh barrages of Gaza rockets strike south as both sides vow further attacks
Terrorists launch dozens of projectiles at Israeli cities and villages around the enclave as IDF bombs Islamic Jihad sites; Israel closes border crossing, restricts fishing zone
By Judah Ari Gross
An Israeli military bulldozer enters the Gaza buffer zone to retrieve the body of a suspected terrorist on February 23, 2020. (Screen capture/Shehab news)
February 24, 2020, 5:22 pm
Despite attempt to change rules with Syria strikes, Israel’s Gaza policy failing
Hitting Islamic Jihad officials outside Strip is a new approach, but Jerusalem has been making many concessions to Hamas and getting nothing
By Avi Issacharoff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 9, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
February 24, 2020, 4:36 pm
Netanyahu threatens Gaza operation, ‘surprises’ if rocket fire doesn’t stop
PM warns Israel ‘will have to implement the wide-ranging campaign plan we have prepared’; Bennett says ‘we are preparing plan to fundamentally change the situation in the Strip’
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
Fireballs and smoke rise into the air following an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group throughout the day on February 24, 2020. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
February 24, 2020, 2:10 pm
IDF pounds Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza after rockets fired at south
Military says fighter jets, attack helicopters bombed terror group’s facility in Khan Younis, elsewhere in the Strip, following afternoon barrages that struck southern Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
Smoke trails are left in the sky after Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on February 24, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
February 24, 2020, 12:51 pm
Over a dozen Gaza rockets fired at south as violence erupts after morning lull
Iron Dome shoots down at least 12 of 14 projectiles; attack follows threats from both Palestinian and Israeli officials of renewed fighting
By Judah Ari Gross
Iron Dome anti-missile batteries installed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, November 12, 2019 (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)
February 24, 2020, 11:54 am
Tense calm holds in south as both sides threaten return to violence
Netanyahu and Bennett warn of major operation if fighting starts again; Palestinian Islamic Jihad group vows revenge after Israeli airstrike kills 2 of its members in Syria
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
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