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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

Elana Kirsh

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order, alongside US Secretary of Commerce nominee Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 10, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)
February 10, 2025, 4:09 am
February 10: Trump says ceasefire should end if all hostages not released by Saturday at noon
Demonstrators rally in Tel Aviv to demand deal be maintained, mark birthday of hostage * Ex-captive Yarden Bibas ‘clinging to hope’ for his wife and young sons, sister says
By Elana Kirsh, Ethan Rubinson and ToI Staff
Israeli captives, from left to the right, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who have been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, onstage before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
February 9, 2025, 4:36 pm
Reports: Newly freed hostages were abused, now suffer malnutrition, heart disorders
Outlets cite families of Or Levy, Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami as saying they were held in Gaza tunnels; health officials: Conditions worse than previous returned captives
By Elana Kirsh, Diana Bletter and ToI Staff
Released hostage Or Levy reunites with his three-year-old son Almog after 491 days in captivity in Gaza, at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, February 8, 2025. (Courtesy)
February 8, 2025, 3:17 am
Feb. 8: Families plead with PM to urgently seal 2nd phase of deal after hostages return emaciated
Or Levy reunites with 3-year-old son Almog, whose mother was killed on Oct. 7 * Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami reunite with families * Netanyahu vows to destroy Hamas ‘monsters’
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
Visitors at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, February 3, 2025. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 7, 2025, 5:15 am
Feb. 7: Source says Israeli negotiators ‘most likely’ headed to Doha for 2nd phase talks
Negotiating team will be a working-level delegation * Netanyahu invites US House speaker to Israel * ICC president decries American sanctions as ‘serious attacks’ on global order
By Elana Kirsh, Shira Silkoff and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, February 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
February 3, 2025, 4:20 am
Feb. 3: Qatar: We’re counting on Trump to stand behind efforts to reach 2nd phase of truce
President says ‘no guarantees’ Gaza ceasefire will hold * PM’s office: Sara Netanyahu arrived in DC yesterday
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
A passerby looks at photos of the hostages in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, January 23, 2025. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 31, 2025, 5:43 am
Jan. 31: Israel said to believe Hamas won’t agree to free all living hostages in 2nd phase
Next hostage release expected Saturday morning, with 3 Israeli men set to go free * Details begin to emerge about the difficult conditions that the freed captives endured in Gaza
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
Israeli hostages released on January 30, 2025 (from left): Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Mozes (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, AP Photo/Mohammed Hajjar, AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
January 30, 2025, 1:56 pm
Arbel Yehoud, Gadi Mozes, 5 Thais, freed amid mayhem in Khan Younis; Agam Berger released
Yehoud, 29, and Mozes, 80, forced to walk through mob with gunmen in lengthy, chaotic handover at which the 5 Thais also freed; Netanyahu denounces ‘unimaginable cruelty’
By Emanuel Fabian, Amy Spiro and Elana Kirsh
Hamas operatives escort four Israeli hostages on a stage before handing them over to a team from the Red Cross in Gaza City on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 29, 2025, 1:48 am
Jan. 29: Red Cross says it has no control over Hamas conduct during hostage handovers
Israeli hostages Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger, Gadi Mozes to go free Thursday, as will 5 Thai hostages * US Mideast envoy in Israel for talks on 2nd stage, visits Gaza
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
The 33 hostages who were returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire deal: Row 1 (L-R): Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Arbel Yehoud, Doron Steinbrecher, Ariel Bibas, Kfir Bibas, Shiri Bibas; Row 2: Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Danielle Gilboa, Naama Levy, Ohad Ben Ami, Gadi Moshe Mozes; Row 3: Keith Siegel, Ofer Calderon, Eli Sharabi, Itzik Elgarat, Shlomo Mantzur, Ohad Yahalomi, Oded Lifshitz; Row 4: Tsahi Idan, Hisham al-Sayed, Yarden Bibas, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Iair Horn, Omer Wenkert, Sasha Troufanov; Row 5: Eliya Cohen, Or Levy, Avera Mengistu, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem Tov (all photos courtesy)
January 25, 2025, 3:49 am
Jan. 25: Hamas yet to say which hostages still set to be freed in first phase of Gaza deal are alive
Information was meant to be received by Saturday * Released hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Albag in stable medical condition after 477 days in captivity
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, speaks during a press conference at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on January 17, 2025 (Hostages Forum)
January 17, 2025, 1:36 am
Jan. 17: Macron says two French-Israelis among first hostages to be freed by Hamas
Agreement to come into effect on Sunday, when 1st three hostages are to be released; 33 set to be freed in 42-day first phase * Ministers okay deal after hours-long Shabbat meeting
By Jacob Magid and Elana Kirsh
A sign calling for the release of hostages held by terror groups in Gaza, near the Israeli border with the Strip, January 16, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 16, 2025, 5:23 am
Jan. 16: Hostages Forum urges government to approve deal ‘with the requisite urgency’
Final hurdles said cleared for hostage-ceasefire agreement, cabinet set to meet to approve * Ben Gvir says his Otzma Yehudit party will quit government if it approves deal
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (right) meets visiting UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy in Jerusalem on January 12, 2025. (Shlomi Amsalem/ Foreign Ministry)
January 12, 2025, 4:25 am
Jan. 12: FM Sa’ar to UK top diplomat: ‘Soon we will know if Hamas is interested’ in hostage deal
Herzog urges dialogue on new judicial overhaul plan * Hundreds mourn slain Hamas hostages in NYC’s Central Park * 27-year-old woman lightly hurt in West Bank rock-throwing attack
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets then-US president-elect Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, at his office in Jerusalem, January 11, 2025. (Prime Minister's Office Spokesperson)
January 11, 2025, 5:32 am
January 11: Trump envoy returns to Qatar for hostage talks after meeting Netanyahu in Jerusalem
Israeli delegation also heads to Doha as hostage families urge deal that will return all the captives, end war * Witkoff reportedly told PM that Trump wants agreement before Jan. 20
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
A handout picture provided by the Lebanese Army Press Office shows Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Joseph Aoun (C-R) meeting with US special envoy Amos Hochstein (C-L) at his office in Yarze, east of Beirut on January 6, 2025. (Lebanese Army Press Office / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 4:03 am
Jan. 6: US shifts some military aid to Lebanon from Egypt, letter says
Canada’s Trudeau resigns * 5.5 magnitude quake hits southern Iran, near nuclear power plant
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara along with several government ministers, some of whom she has strongly criticized, as well cabinet secretary Yossi Fuchs with whom she has frequently clashed, at a special government conference on Jerusalem Day at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, June 5, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 23, 2024, 4:11 am
Dec. 23: Coalition said to agree on advancing attorney general’s ouster
Senior Houthi official pledges to continue attacks on Israel until Gaza war ends * Security forces foil attempt to smuggle guns from Egypt with drone
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
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