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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) meets with senior officers for an assessment at the IDF HQ in Tel Aviv, August 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 12, 2024, 6:52 pm
IDF chief approves multi-front battle plans as Israel girds for Iran, Hezbollah attack
Iran reportedly may attack within 24 hours, as Gallant says Israel has boosted defenses, is prepared to respond; UK, France, Germany warn Tehran not to thwart ceasefire-hostage deal
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Pope Francis shakes hands with US comedian Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC's 'The Tonight Show,' during an audience with comedians in The Vatican, June 14, 2024. (Handout: Vatican Media / AFP)
June 14, 2024, 8:54 pm
Pope Francis tells visiting comedians it’s okay to ‘laugh at God’
Pontiff hosts group of comic actors, including many prominent names, for reception at Vatican hailing the importance of humor: ‘You also make God smile’
By Giada Zampano
Pope Francis (center) poses for a photo with Raphael Schutz, the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See (first from left), Rabbi Abramo Alberto Funaro (second from left), Redouane Abdellah of Rome's Islamic Center (second from right) and Issa Kassissieh, the Palestinian Authority's ambassador to the Holy See (first from right) after an evening of peace prayers in the Vatican Gardens, at the Vatican, June 7, 2024. (Alessandra Tarantino / POOL / AFP)
June 7, 2024, 11:20 pm
‘The hatred it sows’: Pope recreates 2014 Vatican summit to pray for end to Gaza war
Israeli, PA envoys attend event at Holy See in which Francis calls for a ceasefire, release of hostages and warns the conflict will taint future generations
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Tawakkul Karman, chairwoman of Woman Journalists Without Chains, attends the International Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 17, 2019. (AP Photo/ Matthias Schrader/ File)
May 13, 2024, 7:25 pm
Israel protests Yemeni Nobel laureate accusing it of genocide during Vatican event
Rights activist Tawakkul Karman delivers speech criticizing world for being silent in the face of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Pope Francis meets at the Vatican with relatives of Shiri, Yarden, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who have been held hostage in Gaza since October 7, on April 8, 2024. (Vatican Media handout via AFP)
April 8, 2024, 4:08 pm
Vatican: Gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy ‘contradictory to human dignity’
New 20-page doctrinal statement also reiterates rejection of gender theory; pope’s confidant casts document as conservative kowtow to anti-gay cardinals miffed by liberal pontiff
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis greets Bassam Aramin, left, and Rami Elhanan during the weekly general audience at the Vatican, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
March 27, 2024, 7:21 pm
Pope hosts Israeli, Palestinian fathers who both lost daughters in conflict
Amid recent health concerns, pontiff praises Bassam Aramin, Rami Elhanan for the ‘friendship of two men who care about each other’ and seek peace instead of war
By AP
Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 UN Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
February 16, 2024, 4:31 pm
Israel complains after Catholic Church denounces Gaza ‘carnage’
Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin says October 7 massacre does not justify number of casualties in Israeli response
By AP and ToI Staff
Pope Francis stands at the balcony of St. Peter's basilica to deliver the Christmas Urbi et Orbi blessing in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on December 25, 2023. (Tiziana FABI/AFP)
December 25, 2023, 3:27 pm
Pope calls for end to wars in Gaza, Ukraine as world celebrates Christmas
Somber mood in Vatican City as pontiff appeals for peace, decries global weapons trade; festivities in full swing as Florida holds annual ‘Surfing Santa’ event
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, November 22, 2023 (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
November 26, 2023, 11:40 am
Jewish groups ask Pope Francis to clarify Israel ‘terrorism’ comments
Criticism from European, US groups comes after ambiguous comment last week: ‘We have gone beyond wars. This is not war. This is terrorism’
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rachel Goldberg shows footage of the attack in which her son Hersh was attacked, injured and abducted by Gaza terrorists on October 7, 2023, to Pope Francis, November 22, 2023. (Screenshot / Aviva Klompas/X/ used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 22, 2023, 2:54 pm
‘This is my son. No arm — it’s been 47 days’: Mom shows pope image of her hostage son
Francis holds separate meetings with relatives of abductees and of Palestinian prisoners, decries ‘passions that are killing everyone’; crowd at Vatican waves ‘Genocide’ posters
By Jessica Steinberg and Agencies
This photo taken and released by the Vatican Media on November 6, 2023, shows Pope Francis during a meeting with a delegation of the Conference of European Rabbis in The Vatican. (Handout/Vatican Media/AFP)
November 6, 2023, 5:38 pm
Ailing pope decries antisemitism, terror and war in meeting with European rabbis
Pontiff references October 7 Hamas onslaught in prepared remarks, saying his prayers go ‘above all else, to everything that has happened in the last few weeks’
By Frances D'Emilio
World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder gives Pope Francis a 'Kishreinu' (Hebrew for 'Our Bond') document marking influence of the Catholic Church's Nostra Aetate declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations, October 19, 2023. (Shahar Azran/WJC via JTA)
October 24, 2023, 4:26 pm
In a first, a Jewish organization opens an office at the Vatican
World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder visits Pope Francis while inaugurating the organization’s ‘representative office to the Holy See’ late last week
By Gabe Friedman
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (center) and other religious figures meet with French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna (right) at the French consulate in Jerusalem, October 15, 2023. (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP)
October 16, 2023, 9:41 pm
Latin patriarch of Jerusalem says he would swap himself for Israeli hostages in Gaza
Asked by reporter, Pierbattista Pizzaballa says he would do ‘anything’ to free captive children; FM Cohen slams Vatican for initial Latin Patriarchate response to Hamas massacre
By Agencies and Lazar Berman
Undated file photo of Pope Pius XII (AP Photo, File)
September 16, 2023, 10:28 am
New letter reveals Pope Pius XII had detailed information on Nazi killing of Jews
Vatican archive documents on mass killings in Poland undercut Holy See’s argument that it couldn’t denounce Holocaust as it was unable to verify diplomatic reports
By Nicole Winfield
This undated photo shows Polish farmer Jozef Ulma with his wife Wiktoria. The Ulmas were killed with their seven children by the Nazis in 1944 for having sheltered Jews during World War II. (Mateusz Szpytma, Deputy head of Poland's IPN history institute via AP)
September 10, 2023, 11:56 am
In first, Vatican beatifies Polish family of 9 executed by Nazis for sheltering Jews
Mass held in honor of the Ulmas, who were killed along with 8 Jews they were hiding; experts have warned Warsaw could use recognition to downplay Poles’ role in Holocaust
By Agencies
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