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Israeli soldiers escort the media to an underground tunnel found underneath Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Nov. 22, 2023. (AP/Victor R. Caivano)
November 12, 2025, 10:56 pm
US intel revealed Israeli officials discussing use of human shields in Gaza, sources say
Report by Reuters says Israelis discussed soldiers sending Palestinians into tunnels potentially lined with explosives; IDF says practice is prohibited, it is investigating
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers operating in the northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2025. (Oren Cohen/Flash90)
November 10, 2025, 2:36 pm
British TV set to air film interviewing IDF soldiers on alleged Gaza war misconduct
First-hand testimonies describe human shields, indiscriminate killings, and the controversial influence of a brigade rabbi; army insists it ‘remains committed to the rule of law’
By Stav Levaton
An IDF infographic shows the location of a strike on a Hamas command center at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, April 13, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 12, 2025, 12:39 am
Hamas government docs detail terror group’s use of Gaza hospitals, medical facilities
Documents from Hamas Ministry of Interior and National Security from 2020 illustrate how the terror group’s leaders take refuge in hospitals during ‘times of escalation’
By Jeremy Sharon
Troops of the Nahal Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued on August 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 8, 2025, 1:11 am
Gazan ‘human shield’ for IDF shot dead in error by officer — report
Palestinian was said to be assisting troops in Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion in Rafah area over summer; army has said the practice is forbidden, but does not deny it took place
By ToI Staff
Lt. Col. Dori, 14th Reserve Armored Brigade, in central Gaza, October 2024 (IDF Spokesman)
November 5, 2024, 4:35 pm
Though battered, Hamas still able to function in central Gaza, says tank commander
Speaking soon after his return from Netzarim Corridor, Lt. Col. Dori says he saw Hamas gunmen seize aid trucks, believes totally dismantling terror group will take a long time
By Lazar Berman
People walk past tents sheltering people displaced by conflict in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 23, 2024. (Bashar Taleb / AFP)
October 24, 2024, 1:18 am
Pentagon chief: Israel will ‘increase number of insurgents’ if Gazans not safeguarded
Austin says Israel should be more precise in attacks on Hamas, calls for it to bring in more humanitarian aid to Strip while acknowledging the ‘very difficult battle space’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
IDF troops seen operating in Gaza in a handout photo cleared for publication on October 9, 2024. (IDF)
October 14, 2024, 11:42 pm
IDF denies report troops are using detained Gazans as human shields
Israeli military says its rules ‘forbid’ such activity, though NY Times cites retired IDF Brig. Gen Tamir Hayman saying detainees are coerced or volunteer for such operations
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
People use a blanket to transport a casualty after an Israeli airstrike hit the Al-Jawni (Jaouni) school in Nuseirat, where the IDF says Hamas was operating, in the central Gaza Strip on September 11, 2024. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
September 12, 2024, 12:27 pm
IDF names 9 Hamas operatives, including 3 UNRWA staffers, killed in strike on school
UN slams bombing of Al-Jawni school in Nuseirat, as welfare agency reports 6 staff among 18 said killed; IDF says Hamas used site to plan and carry out attacks on troops
By Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
Israeli troops in an underground Hamas tunnel in Gaza, February 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)
August 13, 2024, 10:21 pm
Report: IDF using Gazans to check areas that may be booby-trapped before troops enter
Soldiers tell Israeli newspaper that commanders send Palestinian civilians into tunnels and buildings they fear are rigged, claim chief of staff and top brass aware of practice
By ToI Staff
Palestinians inspect the damage of residential buildings after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
July 13, 2024, 11:31 pm
Hamas hiding among civilians in Gaza to protect itself, ambush IDF troops, NYT reports
Terror group uses children to lure soldiers into false sense of security as it hides underground, waiting to spring carefully laid traps; tunnels have landline phone network
By ToI Staff
People walk amid the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Israeli bombardment of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 16, 2024.,(Photo by AFP)
June 26, 2024, 11:55 pm
Israel rejects UN war crimes claim: Hamas turned ‘large parts of Gaza into combat sites’
Document responding to UN Human Rights office allegations says report suffers from ‘hindsight and methodological biases,’ lacks crucial information
By Jeremy Sharon
File: A woman instructs children on arithmetic multiplication in a classroom at a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) at the Shati camp for Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, on May 7, 2024. (AFP)
May 13, 2024, 10:55 am
Gazans strive to study as education system falls apart amid war
Palestinians in the Strip learn in makeshift classrooms, while those in Cairo seek remote alternatives in Europe and the West Bank
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Israeli troops are seen in Gaza City's Shati camp in November 2023, in leaked footage published by Al Jazeera in March 2024. (Screenshot: X)
March 10, 2024, 8:17 pm
IDF probing leaked video of soldiers appearing to discuss killing of unarmed Gazan
Military claims Al Jazeera footage of troops in Gaza City from November is edited and that Israeli forces were shot at from location where man was found
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari speaks to the press at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)
February 26, 2024, 6:57 am
Hagari: Hamas deeply embedded among civilians, stages attacks from humanitarian zones
In Wall Street Journal op-ed, IDF spokesperson says military fights in Gaza with ‘heavy heart’ and is ‘aware of the tragic loss of civilian lives’
By ToI Staff
Zahdy Ali Zahdy Shahin, identified by the IDF as a former Hamas operative, is seen in an interrogation video published January 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 2, 2024, 4:30 am
In interrogation, ex-Hamas operative says group uses Gaza civilians as human shields
Suspects captured by troops in Gaza Strip detail incidents of Hamas’s use of civilians for terror operations, including one in which group forced men to hospital to hide among them
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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