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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 593

Naksa Day

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier arresting a suspect after a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, on March 18, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 2, 2021, 6:26 pm
Israel arrests senior Hamas commander in the West Bank
Military says Jamal Tawil encouraged recent riots, was working to revive terror group’s Ramallah headquarters; Hamas denounces the detention, vows to continue fighting
By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces near the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus May 18, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
June 1, 2021, 3:08 pm
Amid shaky Gaza ceasefire, Hamas calls for West Bank ‘Day of Rage’ on Friday
Terror group pushes for violent confrontations at checkpoints and against Israeli settlers in order to ‘defend the land and holy sites’
By Emanuel Fabian
Palestinians protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops on the Israel-Gaza border, Friday, June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
June 8, 2018, 11:06 pm
Hamas’s Gaza protests have ‘failed,’ top IDF official says
COGAT chief speaks after low turnout at Quds Day border rallies, with far smaller turnout than terror group sought; Israel prepares for possible rocket response to 4 deaths
By ToI Staff
Palestinians run from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during clashes along the Gaza Strip border fence on June 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
June 8, 2018, 4:24 pm
4 said killed in clashes, including minor, as 10,000 protest on Gaza border
Over 600 Palestinians reported injured, mostly from tear gas; dozens of explosive kites, balloons spark fires in nearby Israeli communities; turnout lower than expected
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers walk near an army tank patrolling along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on May 29, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)
June 8, 2018, 12:00 pm
At Gaza border, tensions sky-high ahead of latest mass protests
Air Force reportedly sets piles of tires on fire in Rafah to prevent protesters from using them at the rallies; one brushfire already blamed on Gaza kite
By ToI Staff
A flyer, dropped by the Israeli military into Gaza on June 8, 2018, which calls on residents of the coastal enclave to not take part in the protests planned for the following day. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 7, 2018, 5:44 pm
IDF drops flyers warning Gazans not to join Friday border protests
Letters say nearing or crossing fence would have harmful consequences, calls on Gazans not to be ‘exploited’ to further goals of Hamas, Iran
By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross
This file photo taken on June 5, 1967 shows Israeli airforce Dassault Mirage III fighters flying over the Sinai Peninsula at the Israeli-Egyptian border on the first day of the Six Day War. (AFP)
June 5, 2018, 7:18 pm
Egypt radio announcer who claimed troops had reached Tel Aviv in 1967 dies
Ahmed Said told Egyptians their air force had downed dozens of Israeli jets; in fact, Israel had destroyed Nasser’s planes on the tarmac
By AP and ToI Staff
Volunteer paramedic Razan Najjar, 21, center, is seen before she was killed, running with protesters to take cover from tear gas fired by Israeli troops, in the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, during a violent demonstration east of Khan Younis, June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 5, 2018, 5:55 pm
IDF: Gazan medic shot dead last week was not deliberately targeted
Military says initial investigation finds Razan Najjar, 21, was likely killed by a ricochet or a misdirected shot; IDF continues to investigate
By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and AFP
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, November 14, 2017. (Flash90)
June 5, 2018, 12:47 pm
Minister calls for targeted killings of Gaza kite bombers, Hamas leaders
Trump’s Mideast envoy Greenblatt says airborne firebombs are ‘indiscriminate weapons,’ not ‘harmless playthings or metaphors for freedom’
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian man throws a stone toward Israeli forcesduring a demonstration along the Gaza border on June 1, 2018. (AFP/ Mahmud Hams)
June 5, 2018, 6:41 am
Israel girds for fresh Gaza violence, but mass protest may only come Friday
Military officials believe organizers will hold a low-key rally Tuesday for annual commemoration of Naksa Day, with large-scale march on border planned for weekend
By ToI Staff
Palestinians prepare to set fire to an Israeli flag and portraits of US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a protest at the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, April 13, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
June 3, 2018, 4:39 am
Why Palestinians care what Donald Trump thinks about Jerusalem
Israelis appreciated but mostly shrugged at last month’s US Embassy move, but Palestinians exploded in fury. The gap reveals much about their predicament
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Palestinian mourners carry the body of 21-year-old Palestinian paramedic Razan al-Najjar at her funeral in Khan Yunis on June 2, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
June 2, 2018, 5:03 pm
Thousands at funeral for Gaza volunteer medic killed on Israel border
IDF says it is investigating shooting of 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar; Arab Israeli MK calls it a ‘war crime’
By ToI Staff and AFP
Volunteer paramedic Razan al-Najjar, 21, center, is seen before reportedly being shot in her chest by Israeli troops during a protest east of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Friday, June 1, 2018 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
June 1, 2018, 9:10 pm
Palestinians say female medic killed, 100 injured in Gaza fence clashes
Palestinians fire on IDF vehicle, set off hand grenade and light several fields ablaze with incendiary kites as thousands riot along border
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian protester holds a tear gas canister in his mouth during a demonstration along the border with Israel east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza strip on June 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
June 1, 2018, 3:47 pm
Palestinian rioters on Gaza border set fire to Israeli fields, 11 Gazans wounded
More than 120,000 Palestinians from West Bank travel to Jerusalem for Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque
By ToI Staff
A photo taken from Gaza City on May 29, 2018, shows smoke billowing in the background following an Israeli air strike against a military target in the Palestinian coastal enclave, in response to repeated mortar and rocket attacks on southern Israel. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
June 1, 2018, 8:34 am
Army calls to lift some economic restrictions on Gaza, boost chances of quiet
Senior officer says Israel and Gaza at ‘watershed’ and that Hamas’s return of the bodies of fallen IDF soldiers is precondition for long-term calm
By ToI Staff
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