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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Mark Rutte

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulations US President Donald Trump on his second inauguration, in a video message posted January 20, 2025. (Screen capture via GPO)
January 20, 2025, 10:06 pm
Netanyahu, congratulating Trump, predicts ‘best days’ of Israel-US relations ahead
As US president inaugurated, Israeli leaders thank him for help with hostage deal, PM ‘looks forward’ to toppling Hamas with his help; reports say premier may go to DC next month
By Amy Spiro and ToI Staff
Live fire testing at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexic,o of early versions of the Army Tactical Missile System, on December 14, 2021. (John Hamilton/U.S. Army via AP)
November 19, 2024, 5:20 pm
Putin ratchets up nuclear threat after Ukraine fires US-supplied missiles at Russia
Russian leader signs order allowing use of nuclear weapons in case of conventional attack by country backed by a nuclear power, as defiant Kyiv marks 1,000 days since invasion
By AFP and AP
The Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte arrives to attend an informal EU leaders summit in Brussels, on June 17, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)
June 26, 2024, 1:29 pm
NATO picks Dutch PM Mark Rutte as next chief, as alliance faces perilous times
Seen as safe pair of hands amid threat posed by Putin, possible election of Trump; predecessor Stoltenberg hails ‘true transatlanticist, strong leader, consensus-builder’
By Max Delany
Leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders waves as he arrives at a post-election meeting at the Nieuwspoort conference center in The Hague on November 23, 2023. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)
May 16, 2024, 12:32 pm
Emerging hardline Dutch coalition to look for right ‘time’ to move embassy to Jerusalem
Unprecedented language follows electoral gains of the anti-Islam, pro-Israel Party for Freedom of firebrand Geert Wilders; Holocaust education to be included in citizenship test
By Canaan Lidor and AFP
Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima lay a wreath during a solemn annual national service to commemorate the dead in World War II in Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 4, 2024. (Remko de Waal/ANP/Pool Photo via AP)
May 5, 2024, 5:57 pm
Netherlands holds muted World War II memorial amid tight security due to Gaza war
Dutch monarch and PM join 4,000 people for ceremony held under restrictions to ensure safety, avoid disruptions; in past years event attracted some 20,000 attendees
By Reuters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at his office in Jerusalem, October 23, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
October 23, 2023, 7:53 pm
Netanyahu to visiting Greek, Dutch leaders: Civilizations must ‘unite against Hamas’
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says he hopes war will not have ‘too much of a humanitarian cost,’ while Dutch PM Mark Rutte says leaders to ‘discuss how now to best move forward’
By Amy Spiro and Lazar Berman
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, is greeted by Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
August 20, 2023, 5:25 pm
Netherlands, Denmark to hand Ukraine F-16 jets; Zelensky hails ‘historic’ move
Dutch PM Rutte tells visiting Ukrainian president the warplanes will be delivered ‘as soon as possible’ following pilot training
By Mike Corder
Netherland's Prime Minister Mark Rutte listens to a question during a press conference after talks with Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel at the Serbia Palace, in Belgrade, Serbia, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
July 8, 2023, 6:30 am
Dutch government collapses over bitter migration dispute
Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigns over ‘insurmountable’ differences on immigration policy, heralding a stormy and divisive election campaign
By Danny Kemp and Jan Hennop
Illustrative: Nazi troops in front of Amsterdam's Bijenkorf square in 1941. (Public domain)
January 25, 2023, 4:31 pm
Nearly a quarter of young adults in Netherlands think Holocaust a myth, survey finds
‘Disturbing lack of awareness’: Poll says over half of Dutch don’t know Holocaust took place in their country or that 6 million Jews died
By Mike Corder
People walk in the streets in Eindhoven, on November 12, 2021 as new COVID-19 restrictions announced (ROB ENGELAAR / ANP / AFP)
November 13, 2021, 11:40 am
Dutch government imposes partial lockdown as virus cases surge
Netherlands is first country in Western Europe to bring in strict regulation since new wave of infections began surging across parts of the continent
By Mike Corder
Holland's King Willem-Alexander, right, officially unveiling a new monument in the heart of Amsterdam's historic Jewish Quarter honoring the 102,000 Dutch victims of the Holocaust, September 19, 2021, (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
September 19, 2021, 8:13 pm
Dutch king, PM unveil Amsterdam memorial naming nation’s 102,000 Holocaust dead
Monument in capital’s historic Jewish Quarter, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is made up of name plaques for each of country’s Jewish, Roma and Sinti victims killed by Nazis in WWII
By Mike Corder
This aerial view taken in Brommelen, Netherlands, shows the flooded area around the Meuse after a levee of the Juliana Canal broke, July 16, 2021. (Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP)
July 17, 2021, 4:43 pm
Dutch PM blames climate change for deadly flooding in Europe
‘Something is really happening, let’s be clear,’ says Mark Rutte while visiting an area of the Netherlands that suffered damage
By AFP
The rubble of a Gaza Strip high-rise building destroyed by the IDF is seen via satellite image, May 16, 2021. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)
May 18, 2021, 5:52 pm
EU top diplomat urges Israel-Palestinian ceasefire after meeting of FMs
Amid growing international pressure on Jerusalem, bloc’s foreign policy chief says ‘priority is the immediate cessation of all violence and the implementation of a ceasefire’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Students explore Camp Amersfoort in the Netherlands, April 19, 2021. (Mike Bink/National Monument Kamp Amersfoort, via JTA)
April 23, 2021, 3:13 pm
‘Unimaginable suffering’: Museum opens at infamous Nazi camp in heart of Holland
47,000 people were imprisoned at Camp Amersfoort, including hundreds of Jews who were later sent to death camps in Poland
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: A sign warns airline passengers about a COVID-19 travel advisory at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, July 1, 2020. (Seth Wenig/AP)
January 13, 2021, 8:55 am
US hits daily death toll record, says air arrivals will need negative COVID test
As 4,470 die of coronavirus, authorities set January 26 as date to expand existing measure that previously only targeted UK; other countries also tighten restrictions
By Issam Ahmed
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