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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

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Friday Focus with Lazar Berman, May 9, 2025.
May 9, 2025, 11:30 am
Friday Focus with Lazar Berman – ‘Forever war’ in Gaza: Past, present & potential future
As Israel appears to be standing at a crossroads in the conflict, ToI’s diplomatic reporter delves into its rollout, pauses, surprises and successes
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Staff Sgt. Cpt. Noam Ravid (L) and Yaly Seror (R), who were killed in a tunnel blast in Rafah, Gaza on May 3, 2025 (IDF)
May 4, 2025, 9:12 am
Two IDF soldiers killed, two wounded in blast in booby-trapped Rafah tunnel
Slain Yahalom combat engineering troops named as Cpt. Noam Ravid, 23, from Sha’arei Tikva and Staff Sgt. Yaly Seror, 20, from Omer
By Emanuel Fabian and AP
Members of the Palestine Red Crescent and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
April 29, 2025, 6:10 pm
Israel frees Gazan medic arrested during Rafah ambulance shooting last month
Red Crescent says Assad Al-Nsasrah was detained after IDF fire killed 15 rescue workers in March, drawing global outrage; army probe says six of them were Hamas terrorists
By AFP and ToI Staff
IDF troops are seen in the Morag Corridor area in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
April 21, 2025, 8:09 pm
As troops advance in south Gaza, IDF says it’s seeing cracks emerge in Hamas’s rule
Remaining terror operatives in Rafah trapped after military constructs new road in Morag Corridor; officers vow army ‘very focused on returning hostages’
By Emanuel Fabian
This image grab from a handout video reportedly recovered from the cellphone of an aid worker killed in Gaza alongside other rescuers and released by the Palestine Red Crescent Society on April 5, 2025, shows ambulances with their emergency lights flashing and a rescuer near one of the vehicles in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the PRCS. (Palestinian Red Crescent/AFP)
April 20, 2025, 5:10 pm
Admitting ‘errors,’ IDF fires officer over killing of 15 rescue workers in Gaza’s Rafah
Probe finds troops did not violate code of ethics but made ‘professional errors’ and breached protocol when they opened fire on ambulances, fire truck and UN vehicle on March 23
By Emanuel Fabian
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published on April 18, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 18, 2025, 5:22 pm
Gaza photojournalist, family killed in Gaza strike; IDF says it targeted Hamas operative
Fatima Hassouna, 25, was subject of documentary due to premiere at Cannes next month; military hits 40 targets across Strip, captures and destroys tunnels in north of the enclave
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Troops of the Givati Brigade operate in Gaza, in a handout photo issued on April 9, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 14, 2025, 2:33 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 14: Day 556 – With Rafah encircled, IDF preps to empty Gazan city
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on a recent propaganda video of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, flurry of IDF reservists’ protest letters and joint aerial exercises with Qatar
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
Men riding a horse-drawn cart carrying chopped tree branches for lumber watch as a smoke plume erupts from a building that was hit by an Israeli strike after prior warning in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on March 25, 2025 (Eyad BABA / AFP)
April 13, 2025, 2:17 am
IDF intercepts rocket fired from Gaza on Passover Eve, orders evacuation in launch area
Army’s Arabic spokesman says, ‘We will attack with great force every area from which rockets are launched’; three more rockets were intercepted earlier Saturday
By ToI Staff, Agencies and Emanuel Fabian
Troops of the 36th Division operate in the Morag Corridor in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on April 12, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 12, 2025, 1:17 pm
IDF fully surrounds Rafah as Katz warns Gazans of ‘final moment to remove Hamas’
Army says it is in complete control of Morag Corridor, cutting off Strip’s southernmost city from Khan Younis, where some Gazans ordered to leave after 3 rockets fired at border town shot down
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on April 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 11, 2025, 8:03 pm
Two soldiers wounded, Hamas commander killed as troops push forward in southern Gaza
IDF advances in Morag Corridor between Rafah and Khan Younis, find Hamas tunnel under Rafah kindergarten; army issues evacuation orders for several Gaza City neighborhoods
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
IDF soldiers are seen in the Morag Corridor area of the southern Gaza Strip, between Rafah and Khan Younis, April 9, 2025. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
April 9, 2025, 8:00 pm
IDF advances in Gaza, expands buffer zone to pressure Hamas, but no fighting taking place
Defense Minister Israel Katz claims ‘great achievements’ bringing terror group closer to agreeing on hostage deal; says military preparing for ‘big move’ to defeat Hamas
By Emanuel Fabian
Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergency responders, recovered in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, on March 31, 2025. (AP/ Abdel Kareem Hana)
April 5, 2025, 11:46 pm
IDF shares initial details from Gaza ambulance probe, says troops told UN of burial site
Military says it’s looking into discrepancy between soldiers’ account and video from medic’s phone, but asserts forces didn’t try to hide incident, denies any executions took place
By Emanuel Fabian
Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee Gaza City's suburb of Shejaiya following an evacuation order issued by the Israeli military on April 3, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
April 4, 2025, 12:04 am
Gazans flee expanding strikes in north, south as IDF says fighting entering ‘new stage’
New military spokesman announces operation to cut off Rafah, but is coy on plans; army warns civilians to evacuate areas around Gaza City; Islamic Jihad-claimed rocket intercepted
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
IDF troops operate in Rafah's Tel Sultan neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip on April 2, 2025. (Israel Defense Force)
April 2, 2025, 10:34 pm
Netanyahu says IDF carving new corridor across Gaza to cut off Rafah, pressure Hamas
IDF chief vows that ‘the only thing that can stop us from advancing is the release of our hostages,’ as troops launch new offensive, accompanied by heavy airstrikes
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the military on March 23, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 31, 2025, 8:17 pm
Still trying to force Hamas into deal, IDF moves to drastically expand Gaza buffer zones
Mass evacuation orders in Rafah are first act in multi-week operation, as Israel gives terror group last chance to free 11 living hostages and gain truce before IDF retakes Strip
By Lazar Berman
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