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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 615

Sami Abu Zuhri

A rally calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, May 17, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 19, 2025, 2:32 am
US said pushing 2-month ceasefire deal for 9-10 hostages; Hamas denies this is agreed
Hamas said demanding guarantees temporary truce will turn permanent, as IDF offensive ramps up; Witkoff reportedly speaking to PM and Dermer directly, with talks in Doha a ‘facade’
By Nava Freiberg, Nurit Yohanan and ToI Staff
Protesters, led by family members of people held hostage in Gaza, hold placards showing the face of hostage Edan Alexander, near the home of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer in Jerusalem, on April 13, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 15, 2025, 2:43 am
Gaza hostage talks still stalled, official says, amid reports of incremental progress
Hamas says it is studying new Israeli proposal, but official from group reiterates that it won’t disarm and wants permanent end to war in what likely prevents breakthrough
By Jacob Magid, Agencies and ToI Staff
Family members of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip and activists protest for the release of all the hostages in Gaza, outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 11, 2025, 12:51 pm
Hamas tells Trump ‘threats have no value,’ as Israeli far right praises US ultimatum
IDF ups readiness, cancels tree-planting event near Gaza border and furlough for troops in south; hawkish Tikva Forum urges return of hostages at any price, ‘but Hamas must pay it’
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
US President Joe Biden speaks with reporters at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 2, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
September 2, 2024, 7:48 pm
Biden says US close to presenting final ceasefire offer, PM not doing enough for deal
Netanyahu says he doesn’t believe Biden would ask for Israeli concessions after Hamas murdered 6 hostages; Hamas official claims US president’s comments prove Israel stymying talks
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh speaks during a meeting with officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, November 9, 2023. (Ludovic Marin/AP)
February 26, 2024, 12:57 pm
Amid US pressure for reform, entire PA government submits its resignation to Abbas
PM Shtayyeh sends letter to Palestinian Authority president, says new ‘political arrangements’ required for postwar Gaza; Hamas: Must be national consensus
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, July 17, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
July 20, 2019, 1:06 pm
Bahraini FM: If not for Iran’s support of Hamas, we’d be closer to Mideast peace
Official in Palestinian terror group lambastes Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa for photo with Israeli counterpart, says it shows ‘just how pro-Zionist some Arab officials have become’
By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with IDF commanders after a security briefing in Beersheba, May 6, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)
May 6, 2019, 7:48 pm
PM pushes back on Gaza ceasefire criticism, says ‘rules of game’ have changed
Netanyahu boasts that Israel has resumed assassinations, killed ‘dozens’ of Hamas, Islamic Jihad terrorists during bout of fighting
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a mandate to form a government, April 17, 2019. (GPO screenshot)
May 6, 2019, 12:42 pm
As ceasefire goes into effect, Netanyahu says Gaza campaign not over
PM says Israel hit terror groups ‘with great force,’ is readying for next round of fighting; Hamas: Conflict ‘will not end until we regain our rights’
By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff
Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior Palestinian official, in his office in northern Ramallah on December 4, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)
January 8, 2019, 2:10 pm
Fatah official vows more extreme measures to end Hamas’s rule in Gaza
Azzam al-Ahmad says PA considering cuts to funding for water and education in Strip; Hamas official calls comments a ‘declaration of war’
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinians burn flags during a demonstration against an upcoming UN General Assembly vote on a US-drafted resolution condemning the Palestinian Hamas movement in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 6, 2018. ( SAID KHATIB / AFP)
December 7, 2018, 3:00 am
Palestinians applaud defeat of US-backed resolution condemning Hamas
Despite over 80 countries voting in favor of UN measure, Hamas official calls resolution’s failure a ‘slap’ to the American administration
By Adam Rasgon
Palestinian Authority security forces touring Israeli-controlled Hebron in uniform on July 31, 2018 (Credit: Wafa)
September 27, 2018, 12:22 pm
PA reportedly arrests dozens of Hamas members in the West Bank
Raids come a day after official PA news outlet reported that Hamas-run security forces summoned dozens of Fatah members in Gaza and arrested several others
By Adam Rasgon
Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist terror movement Hamas, take part in a rally marking three years since Operation Protective Edge, on July 20, 2017, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)
February 23, 2018, 8:28 pm
Hamas tells Nikki Haley: Your peace plan is ‘worthless’
After US diplomat says proposal nearing completion, Gaza-based terror groups vow to thwart American efforts
By Khaled Abu Toameh
Palestinians argue with Hamas officials and security forces in a makeshift station in a basketball court in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip on November 18, 2017 as they await clearance to take a bus to travel through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, after it opened for three days for the first time since the Palestinian reconciliation deal. (AFP PHOTO / Mahmud Hams)
November 26, 2017, 3:46 pm
PA controls just 5% of Gaza, senior Abbas minister says
Hussein al-Sheikh: Hamas dragging its feet in handover of enclave to Palestinian Authority
By Dov Lieber
Members of the Palestinian security forces patrol in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 19, 2016, during ongoing clashes between the security forces and Palestinian gunmen. (AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)
October 17, 2017, 4:48 pm
PA to begin drafting recruits for Gaza security body, minister says
As part of Palestinian reconciliation deal, Ramallah will reportedly send an initial 3,000 guards to the Strip
By Dov Lieber
Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri, left, of Hamas talk to journalists after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)
October 16, 2017, 4:16 pm
Veneer of positivity fades in Palestinian unity talks as tough issues surface
Even before discussions on future of Hamas’s military, senior official in terror group says PA statements ‘don’t bode well’
By Dov Lieber
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