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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 622

Gershon Baskin

Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage and wife of hostage Keith Siegel, listens during a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion with families of US hostages held by Hamas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
September 7, 2024, 11:10 pm
Freed hostage says she was forced to read lines, pose with food for propaganda clips
Aviva Siegel, released in November deal, tells WSJ she refused to neaten her hair when captors gave her a brush and hair clip, was made to repeat lines she forgot
By ToI Staff
Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan, speaks at a press conference outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 31, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 31, 2024, 10:52 pm
‘Mr. Death’: Hostage families say Netanyahu has condemned their loved ones to die
Hamas says PM’s insistence on keeping presence in Philadelphi Corridor is jamming talks; negotiator in Gilad Shalit deal claims he privately reached potential agreement with Hamas
By ToI Staff
FILE - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and then-Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Gaza City, March 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
December 31, 2023, 5:29 am
As postwar formula for Gaza sought, does Netanyahu’s Hamas = PA equation add up?
The premier insists that the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority cannot rule the Strip; Mideast experts note the movements have distinct differences – but others see similar goals
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Destruction from Israeli aerial bombardment in Gaza City, October 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
October 13, 2023, 2:25 pm
Though Gaza kept under close watch, rescuing hostages there poses daunting task
Densely populated area, web of tunnels, traps awaiting rescuers, and enormous numbers abducted during deadly rampage presents trickiest hostage crisis in Israel’s history
By Agencies
Ramadan Dabash, a Palestinian resident of Sur Baher running for Jerusalem's city council, at his second home in Beit Hanina, July 2018 (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
August 2, 2018, 10:00 am
Taboo-breaking Palestinian candidate says East Jerusalem deserves better
Hoping to be deputy mayor, Ramadan Dabash campaigns for city elections, defying PLO and aiming to mobilize electorate that stays away: ‘We’re not telling anyone to become Israeli’
By Adam Rasgon
From left to right: Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz, Jewish Home MK Shuli Mualem and Zehava Shaul, mother of Oron Shaul, at the Knesset, January 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 25, 2017, 10:55 pm
Families of fallen soldiers lament government inaction
Parents of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whose remains are held by Hamas in Gaza, exhort MKs behind new lobby to ‘do something’
By ToI Staff
Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk (second from left) speaks to media at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip after negotiations in Cairo, August 28, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
January 13, 2017, 6:26 am
Israel-Hamas talks on return of civilians and soldiers remains fall through
As precondition, Palestinian terror group reportedly demands release of security prisoners freed in Gilad Shalit deal and rearrested since
By Avi Issacharoff
French President Francois Hollande (C), United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C-L), French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (C-R), US Secretary of State John Kerry (4th R), European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini (3rd R) and officials pose for a group photo at an international meeting in a bid to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in Paris, on June 3, 2016. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)
June 7, 2016, 1:49 am
For Israelis and Palestinians, peace plans just keep coming
A slew of proposals have been put forward in recent weeks to revive negotiations and solve the decades-long Middle East conflict
By Ben Sales
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 15, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)
May 17, 2016, 2:32 pm
Netanyahu’s office denies Abbas offered secret talks
PM spokesman says ‘no truth whatsoever’ to claims Palestinians made 3 separate attempts to start closed-door negotiations
By JTA and Raoul Wootliff
Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Saeb Erekat. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
August 20, 2015, 10:33 pm
As West Bank storm brews, Abbas looks to groom a successor
September could be a fateful month — with an escalation of violence, major changes in the Palestinian leadership, or both
By Avi Issacharoff
Avraham Avera Mengistu, who is believed to be held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Facebook)
July 10, 2015, 9:18 pm
Israel fears Gaza captive may no longer be alive
With no word in months, officials fear for Avraham Mengistu’s life, say there will be no prisoner exchange for him or 2nd missing Israeli
By ToI Staff
Hamas members watch as a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip as part of the deal for the release of hostage Gilad Shalit on October 18, 2011. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
July 10, 2015, 4:30 am
Israel: No prisoner swap for Gaza-held Israelis
Jerusalem expects Hamas to free 2 captives on humanitarian grounds, officials say; hostages won’t be included in deal for return of soldiers’ bodies
By Adiv Sterman and ToI Staff
Hamas official Ghazi Hamad speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, February 8, 2007 (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)
January 2, 2015, 11:57 am
From a Hamas leader, unusual introspection
Top Gaza official Ghazi Hamad breaks two taboos in a most unusual op-ed: he admits unity with Fatah is a sham, and criticizes Hamas’s sole reliance on ‘armed resistance.’ But there is no softening on Israel
By Elhanan Miller
Israeli potatoes in Jerusalem, March 2007 (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
August 18, 2014, 6:55 pm
Buy potatoes for peace
Gershon Baskin, one of the negotiators responsible for Gilad Shalit deal, raises $93,000 to transfer Israeli spuds to Gaza
By Debra Kamin
Israeli soldiers on patrol in Netiv Ha'asara on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, on July 9, 2014. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
July 11, 2014, 4:38 am
Will Israel’s third Gaza conflict in six years end any differently?
Even a ground invasion would be unlikely to topple Hamas, or to end rocket fire for more than a couple of years
By Ben Sales
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