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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 647

Kibbutz Nahal Oz

Illustrative: Clutching bags of essentials, Petah Tikva residents evacuate homes shattered by Iranian missile strike, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
June 17, 2025, 12:18 pm
Oct. 7 evacuees from Kibbutz Re’im are fleeing back home amid Iranian missile fire
Back in their protected rooms, survivors of the onslaught face renewed trauma as successes in the war with Iran cause them to ask where the military was during the 2023 massacre
By Sue Surkes
Rescued hostage Ori Megidish during an interview broadcast on May 28, 2025. (Channel 12 screenshot)
May 29, 2025, 5:03 pm
Sexually assaulted, nearly killed in an airstrike: Rescued hostage Ori Megidish speaks
Soldier says Hamas guard would grope her, IAF bomb hit house where she was held; she was treated in a Gaza hospital where doctors sewed her wounds without anesthetic
By ToI Staff
A still image of a Hamas propaganda video released on April 23, 2025, showing hostage Omri Miran. (Screenshot)
April 24, 2025, 9:55 pm
‘Do everything’: In Hamas propaganda clip, hostage Omri Miran begs to return home
Captive father of 2, kidnapped from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, appeals to Trump, saying president is ‘probably the only person in the world strong enough’ to make another deal
By ToI Staff
A still image of a Hamas propaganda video released on April 23, 2025, showing hostage Omri Miran. (Screenshot)
April 23, 2025, 8:06 pm
Hamas posts video of Omri Miran; Family: ‘Disgrace’ he’s in tunnel on Holocaust day
‘Never again? An Israeli citizen is crying out for help in a Hamas tunnel’: Family allows publication of still from clip of father of two small girls lighting 48th birthday candle
By Nurit Yohanan, ToI Staff and AFP
People survey the rubble after an airstrike on Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, April 9, 2025. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
April 10, 2025, 11:49 pm
IDF says 12 Oct. 7 terrorists killed in recent strikes, including Shejaiya Battalion chief
30 said killed in Wednesday attack that eliminated Haitham Razek Abd al-Karim Sheikh Khalil, who led attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz, and who is unit’s 4th commander killed since start of war
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Omri Miran (center) from Kibbutz Nir Oz, with his wife Lishay (left) and daughter Roni; Omri was taken captive by Hamas terrorists to Gaza on October 7, 2023 (Noa Sharvit/Courtesy)
April 7, 2025, 3:22 am
‘His name is Omri Miran’: PM panned after failing to name Hungarian-Israeli hostage
PM talks to wife of Omri Miran after referring to him as ‘the Hungarian hostage’ on social media; father says premier’s office didn’t respond to family’s request to meet with Orban
By Nava Freiberg
Families of observation soldiers who were killed by Hamas terrorists at the Nahal Oz post on October 7 speak to the press after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, July 17, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 6, 2025, 7:06 pm
Parents of female Nahal Oz soldiers killed on Oct. 7 ask IDF to recognize their heroism
Families say their daughters must not be remembered merely as ‘symbols of abandonment and failure,’ as chief of staff visits induction center to welcome new surveillance troops
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
IDF troops walk through Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Gaza border, on October 20, 2023, following the October 7 Hamas onslaught. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 4, 2025, 6:01 pm
Civilians, police stopped 1st wave of terrorists at Nahal Oz; IDF arrived 7 hours later
Investigation finds guns of most members of security team were locked in armory, inaccessible due to power outage; 3 cases of ‘friendly fire’ as troops entered kibbutz to clear it of terrorists
By Emanuel Fabian
The torched command center of the Nahal Oz IDF base, overrun by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, during a visit by relatives of slain lookout soldiers on December 19, 2023. (Courtesy/Eyal Eshel)
March 3, 2025, 6:03 pm
‘Systemic failure’: How Nahal Oz base, 850 meters from Gaza yet utterly vulnerable, fell to Hamas
90 armed troops among 162 soldiers on base that morning failed to repel first wave of 65 terrorists; Bedouin tracker stayed behind to defend surveillance soldiers
By Emanuel Fabian
Top row (L-R) Tsahi Idan and Ohad Yahalomi; Bottom row (L-R) Itzik Elgarat and Shlomo Mantzur (Courtesy)
February 22, 2025, 3:32 pm
These are the 4 hostages set to be released late Wednesday; all are believed to be dead
Ohad Yahalomi was injured in gun battle with terrorists; Tsahi Idan saw his daughter die in his arms; Itzik Elgarat told his brother ‘This is the end’; Shlomo Mantzur was murdered on Oct. 7
By ToI Staff
The family of released hostage Agam Berger, with Agam on the far left, February 2025 (Courtesy)
February 13, 2025, 8:05 pm
Released hostage Karina Ariev’s sister says ex-soldier focused on Oct. 7 failure
Sasha Ariev talks about Karina’s desire to commemorate her friends killed at Nahal Oz, as Shlomi Berger, father of released hostage Agam talks about the desire for normalcy
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the northern Gaza Strip as it seen from the Israeli side of the border, on February 9, 2025. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 9, 2025, 7:36 pm
IDF fires at Palestinians who approached northern Gaza border, three said killed
Defense Minister Israel Katz warns: ‘Anyone who enters the buffer zone puts their life at risk’; separately, Gazan woman reportedly killed east of Khan Younis
By Emanuel Fabian
Edna Hefer cuddles with Messiah the donkey in the petting zoo of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, southern Israel, January 16, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 4, 2025, 8:48 am
Kickin’ it old school: Retirees rediscover youth with national service year for over-50s
A pilot project running in two regional councils near the Gaza border is matching local needs with the experience and skills of people around retirement age
By Sue Surkes
Israeli hostages released on January 30, 2025 (from left): Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Mozes (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
January 30, 2025, 1:56 pm
Arbel Yehoud, Gadi Mozes, 5 Thais, freed amid mayhem in Khan Younis; Agam Berger released
Yehoud, 29, and Mozes, 80, forced to walk through mob with gunmen in lengthy, chaotic handover at which the 5 Thais also freed; Netanyahu denounces ‘unimaginable cruelty’
By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and Elana Kirsh
Released hostage Judith Raanan, left, meets with US President-elect Donald Trump in Florida, December 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
December 11, 2024, 12:08 pm
1st hostage to return from Gaza meets Trump, urges him to do all he can to free captives
Judith Raanan, taken with teen daughter while visiting Nahal Oz and released two weeks later, gives US president-elect a painting and tells him about her time in captivity
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
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