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Encampments sheltering Palestinians displaced by conflict are pitched near the Sheikh Radwan wastewater collection pond, which is nearing its filling capacity, in Gaza City on July 14, 2025. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
July 15, 2025, 6:46 am
Israel has eased stance on IDF pullback in Gaza, but not enough for Hamas — diplomat
New maps still envision 2 km buffer zone around Rafah, where Israel is planning controversial ‘humanitarian city’ that terror group aims to thwart; Trump still bullish a deal can be reached
By Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media on arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, en route to Washington, after attending the Club World Cup final soccer match in New Jersey, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
July 14, 2025, 9:18 am
Trump hopes for Gaza deal within a week, as sources allege Netanyahu stalling
US officials huddle with Qataris at soccer match amid stuck talks; report says PM promised far-right coalition allies fighting will resume after proposed 60-day truce
By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Activists from 'Tzav 9' block the Kerem Shalom crossing with southern Gaza to prevent humanitarian aid from entering the Strip, January 28, 2024. (Courtesy: Tzav 9)
June 6, 2025, 11:25 pm
France opens ‘complicity in genocide’ probes against French-Israelis over blocked Gaza aid
Officials probe French members of hardline Israeli groups that blocked aid trucks; separate investigation opened after IDF strike allegedly kills French woman’s grandchildren
By AFP
A truck loaded with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip makes its way to the Kerem Shalom crossing as Border Police officers prevent activists from blocking the road in southern Israel, May 21, 2025. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
May 21, 2025, 6:20 pm
Two right-wing activists arrested after groups try to block aid trucks reaching Gaza
Led by Tzav 9 activist group, dozens block roads leading to Kerem Shalom crossing; passage of aid trucks to Hamas-led Gaza ‘is an unspeakable injustice,’ says group’s leader
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem, March 19, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 19, 2025, 6:30 am
‘Insanity’: Hawkish politicians and groups pillory Netanyahu for resuming aid to Gaza
Ben Gvir slams ‘grave mistake,’ as MKs in PM’s Likud lament ‘immoral decision’; right-wing hostage families voice shock at move, which leaders repeatedly insisted wouldn’t be made
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Volunteers with the Hashomer Yosh (Guardians of Judea and Samaria) organization which was sanctioned by the US on August 28, 2024. (Screenshot from promotional campaign video for Hashomer Yosh; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 28, 2024, 11:12 pm
US issues new batch of sanctions targeting West Bank settlers amid rampant violence
Biden administration blacklists security chief of radical Yitzhar settlement and a group funded by Israeli gov’t that secures illegal outposts; PM views move ‘with great severity’
By Jacob Magid and Jeremy Sharon
Activists blocking the Nitzana crossing to Gaza are forcibly removed by police during protests against the transfer of humanitarian aid by Israel, April 11, 2024. (Courtesy Tzav 9)
August 20, 2024, 5:41 pm
Sanctioned by US, activists who tried to block aid to Gaza change course
Leaders of Tzav 9, which has attacked humanitarian supply convoys headed to Strip, say their focus shifted from ‘field activity’ to political efforts to influence war policy
By Ariela Lopez
Israeli police prevent activists from blocking trucks carrying humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, in southern Israel, January 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
July 16, 2024, 8:33 pm
Israeli groups that block aid entering Gaza receive tax-deductible donations from US
Mother’s March, Torat Lechima and Tzav 9 have collectively raised more than $200,000 online under tax incentives allowed by the US and Israel; Tzav 9 is under US sanctions
By Uri Blau, MILAN CZERNY and Josef Federman
Aviad Shlomo Sarid, from the West Bank’s Revava settlement, speaks to the Kan broadcaster after the United States mistakenly levied sanctions on him instead of on Shlomo Sarid, the head of far-right group Tzav 9, July 15. 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 16, 2024, 10:52 am
After mix-up, US lifts sanctions on Israeli man, blacklists similarly named activist
IDF reservist Aviad Shlomo Sarid says he was ‘completely surprised’ to find bank account, credit card blocked; far-right activist Shlomo Sarid slams ‘draconian sanctions’
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Bentzi Gopstein, head of the racist Lehava organization and a former Knesset candidate for Otzma Yehudit until he was disqualified from running due to incitement to racism, stages a protest against the annual Gay Pride parade in central Jerusalem, June 6, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 11, 2024, 9:30 pm
US issues largest yet batch of sanctions against Israeli extremists, West Bank outposts
Those targeted include anti-miscegenation Lehava group led by Ben Gvir ally, leaders of group behind attacks on Gaza aid convoys and 4 wildcat towns tied to attacks on Palestinians
By Jacob Magid
Activists blocking the Nitzana crossing to Gaza are forcibly removed by police during protests against the transfer of humanitarian aid by Israel, April 11, 2024. (Courtesy Tzav 9)
June 14, 2024, 8:52 pm
US sanctions far-right Israeli group behind attacks on aid convoys bound for Gaza
Blacklisting Tzav 9 for disrupting aid deliveries, State Department vows no tolerance for ‘acts of sabotage and violence targeting this essential humanitarian assistance’
By Jacob Magid
File - Protesters block the exit of Ashdod port to stop trucks they claim are carrying humanitarian aid destined for the Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, February 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
May 22, 2024, 11:50 am
After activist attacks on Gaza aid trucks, some Israelis step in to guard convoys
Video of supplies being vandalized encourages anti-war group Standing Together to protect shipments: ‘We cannot allow these lunatics to operate in broad daylight’
By Deborah Danan
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2024. (Susan Walsh/AP)
May 14, 2024, 12:13 pm
US outraged at Israeli protesters’ assault on aid convoy: ‘Utterly unacceptable’
Two trucks set on fire in West Bank after demonstrators block supply vehicles heading to Gaza, dump contents into road; German envoy calls attack ‘disgraceful’
By ToI Staff
An aid convoy heading to the Gaza Strip that was attacked by protesters in the Hebron Hills region, May 13, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 13, 2024, 7:14 pm
Right-wing activists vandalize aid shipment headed to Gaza, set 2 trucks alight
Four said arrested after assaulting convoy on supply route from Jordan through West Bank; protesters dump goods on road; Tzav 9 group vows more disruptions till hostages freed
By ToI Staff
An aerial view of the new crossing with the northern Gaza Strip, near Kibbutz Zikim, May 12, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 12, 2024, 11:52 pm
Israel opens 3rd crossing into northern Gaza to ‘increase aid routes’ during war
Dozens of WFP flour trucks enter Strip via Western Erez Crossing, which complements two other entrances into Strip’s battered north
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
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