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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

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US President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort; Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, February 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
February 24, 2025, 11:29 am
US backs Israel’s decision to push off release of 602 Palestinian security prisoners
White House says Trump supports Israel’s choices on Hamas, delay is ‘appropriate response’ to ‘barbaric treatment’ of hostages and ‘hideous parade’ of Bibas boys’ coffins
By ToI Staff, Reuters and Jacob Magid
A former Palestinian prisoner released by Israel is cheered by a crowd after stepping out of a bus in the West Bank city of Ramallah on February 8, 2025.(Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
February 8, 2025, 4:29 pm
Israel frees 183 Palestinian prisoners, including 18 terrorists serving life terms
Crowds in Ramallah greet those freed to West Bank; among those released is key planner of 2004 suicide bombing in Beersheba in which 16 Israelis were killed
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian walks past destroyed residential buildings damaged by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
February 7, 2025, 7:32 pm
Israel to show prisoners clip of Gaza destruction prior to release under truce deal
Reports say video meant to demonstrate costs of war to terror convicts who have had little access to media, serve as a deterrent
By ToI Staff
This undated photo taken in winter 2023 and provided by Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
February 6, 2025, 2:52 pm
IDF reservist gets 7 months behind bars for abuse of Palestinian detainees
Yisrael Hajbi also to be demoted to rank of private in plea deal on charges he beat blindfolded and handcuffed detainees while serving as guard at Sde Teiman facility
By Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video statement from his office, February 1, 2025. (Screenshot/PMO)
February 1, 2025, 11:50 pm
Welcoming hostages’ return, PM pledges to ‘achieve all war goals’
Herzog says nation ‘deeply concerned for the fate of our beloved Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas’; Ben Gvir demands resumption of war to ‘destroy our enemies’
By Sam Sokol and Lazar Berman
This undated photo taken in the winter 2023 and provided by Breaking the Silence, a whistleblower group of former Israeli soldiers, shows blindfolded Palestinians captured in the Gaza Strip in a detention facility on the Sde Teiman military base in southern Israel. (Breaking The Silence via AP)
December 19, 2024, 10:05 pm
High Court scraps with Ben Gvir as state ordered to answer prisoner starvation claim
After bench demands response to petition alleging inadequate nutrition for security inmates, right-wing ministers say judges shielding terrorists, drawing pushback from Judicial Authority
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Lawmakers and ministers listen to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he addresses the first plenum session of the Knesset’s winter 2024 legislative session, October 28, 2024. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
October 28, 2024, 11:35 pm
Ministers back bill denying the PA a path to petition the High Court of Justice
Ministerial Committee for Legislation also backs bills preventing security prisoners from receiving visitors, granting government oversight of television viewership data
By Sam Sokol and Tal Schneider
Israeli soldiers and police clash with right wing protesters, after they broke into the Beit Lid army base on July 29, 2024 in Kfar Yona. (Oren Ziv / AFP)
July 30, 2024, 6:22 pm
‘Brink of the abyss’: Coalition turns on itself following mob attacks on IDF bases
PM compares rampages to anti-government protests; MKs urge leaders ‘to stop tearing us apart from the inside’ after far-right politicians join mob break-ins at Sde Teiman, Beit Lid
By Sam Sokol
Hamas terror suspects, caught during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza, crouch on the ground in the courtyard of a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 11, 2024, 7:11 pm
US ‘deeply concerned’ after report alleges Gaza prisoners abused at Israeli facility
Citing Israeli whistleblowers and freed detainees, CNN describes beatings, psychological abuse, medical neglect, prisoners tied near-naked to beds; IDF denies improper treatment
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Anat Matar, senior lecturer, Tel Aviv University Department of Philosophy (Facebook screenshot)
April 10, 2024, 5:53 pm
Police said mulling probe of Tel Aviv U lecturer who eulogized terror convict
Academic Anat Matar called Walid Daqqa, imprisoned for role in 1984 murder of IDF soldier, a ‘source of inspiration’; actress Einat Weizman: He ‘taught me humaneness’
By ToI Staff
Hamas terror suspects, caught during the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and ensuing war in Gaza, crouch on the ground in the courtyard of a prison in southern Israel, February 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 11, 2024, 6:11 am
Netanyahu orders prisons to prepare for large inrush of Palestinian inmates in 2024
Activists claim administrative prisoner population has nearly doubled since October 7; Israel says most arrests of terror suspects made in Gaza since October 7
By ToI Staff
View of Gilboa Prison, near the Jordan Valley, December 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 31, 2023, 4:56 pm
Knesset extends Israel’s ‘incarceration emergency’ as prisons near capacity
According to the Israel Prison Service, 19,756 people are currently held in Israeli jails and ‘within a week or two, we will reach the maximum capacity for prisoners’
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Inside Nitzan Prison in Ramle, February 27, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
December 8, 2023, 7:23 pm
Ben Gvir orders disused underground jail wing readied to hold Oct. 7 terrorists
Section in Ramle’s Nitzan Prison offers minimal conditions, and has not been used in many years; 118 ‘unlawful combatants’ from Gaza held, according to latest figures
By ToI Staff
Released Palestinian security prisoners (wearing grey jumpers) cheer after being released from the Israeli Ofer military facility in Baytunia near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank in exchange for hostages freed by Hamas in Gaza, on November 24, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
November 28, 2023, 6:29 pm
Attempted murder, shootings, bombings: Most freed Palestinians were held for attacks
Violent crimes, including rock throwing, cited by Prison Service in cases of 64 of 117 Palestinian prisoners released in first three days of hostage deal
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Palestinian security prisoner Omar Atshan hugs his mother after being released from an Israeli prison, in Ramallah on November 26, 2023. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)
November 27, 2023, 6:02 am
Palestinians in Ramallah cheer Hamas as dozens more prisoners freed
Released convict sports Hamas flag as crowd chants rare praise for terror group from seat of PA’s power, despite Israeli attempts to crack down on celebrations
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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