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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 469

ToI Staff

Defense Minister Israel Katz (C) attends a discussion on the army conscription law at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 14, 2025.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 17, 2025, 1:03 pm
Katz says settlers in administrative detention to go free, ties it to Palestinian release
‘It is better for the families of Jewish settlers to be happy than the families of freed terrorists,’ defense minister says ahead of Gaza deal
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
The 33 houstages set to be returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Row 1 (L-R): Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Arbel Yehud, 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 Moses; Row 3: Keith Siegel, Ofer Calderon, Eli Sharabi, Itzik Elgarat, Shlomo Mansour, Ohad Yahalomi, Oded Lifshitz; Row 4: Tsahi Idan, Hisham al-Sayed, Yarden Bibas, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Yair Horn, Omer Wenkert, Sasha Trufanov; Row 5: Eliya Cohen, Or Levy, Avera Mengistu, Tal Shoham, Omer Shem-Tov (all photos courtesy)
January 17, 2025, 11:12 am
These are the 33 hostages set to be returned in phase one of the Gaza ceasefire
Families of the captives have been notified, though it is not yet known who among the 33 is alive and who is not
By ToI Staff and Agencies
A journalist is dragged out of the State Department press briefing room after repeatedly interrupting Secretary of State Antony Blinken on January 16, 2025. (Screen capture/X)
January 17, 2025, 6:39 am
Far-left journalists shout at Blinken about Gaza during his last press conference
‘Are you compromised by Israel?’ anti-Zionist Jewish activist yells at secretary of state, claims Israel committing ‘the Holocaust of our time’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
People walk past an installation consisting of a clock counting the time since Hamas's October 7, 2023 massacre, set up on a square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now informally called the "Hostages Square", in Tel Aviv on January 16, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 17, 2025, 2:25 am
Israel and Hamas sign Gaza hostage-ceasefire deal after mediators iron out final kinks
Full cabinet expected to approve deal on Saturday, implementation set for Sunday; Netanyahu’s coalition faces upheaval over agreement
By Jacob Magid, Amy Spiro and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a security assessment in Jerusalem to discuss the ceasefire deal with Hamas, January 17, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
January 17, 2025, 1:36 am
Full cabinet to convene today on Gaza deal; first hostages to be freed Sunday as planned
PM’s office announces pre-Shabbat meeting after security cabinet hearing * Shin Bet says Katz didn’t consult before announcing decision to free settlers from administrative detention
By Elana Kirsh and ToI Staff
Ambulances transport wounded Palestinians from north Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, in Beit Lahia, to the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, on December 28, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP)
January 17, 2025, 12:03 am
WHO says at least $10 billion needed over 5-7 years to rebuild Gaza health system
3 billion required in first year, says envoy; UN agency chief says fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals functional, urges Israel, Hamas to start ceasefire now
By AFP and ToI Staff
Demonstrators in support of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen raise Palestinian flags and placards during a rally denouncing Israel, in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa on January 10, 2025. (Photo by Mohammed Huwais / AFP)
January 16, 2025, 11:38 pm
Houthi leader says group will keep up attacks if Israel doesn’t abide by Gaza truce
Abdul Malik al-Houthi says Jerusalem ‘failed miserably’ in Gaza, needed hostage-ceasefire deal
By Agencies and ToI Staff
People check the rubble of buildings hit in Israeli strikes the previous night in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on January 16, 2025, following an imminent truce announcement amid the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
January 16, 2025, 8:58 pm
Israeli airstrikes pound Gaza, killing Oct. 7 terrorist as sides finalize deal
Hamas member who participated in Nova festival massacre killed in overnight airstrike, IDF says, amid dozens of attacks across enclave that terror group claims endangered a hostage
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
Ruth Strom speaks at a commemorative event for residents of Kfar Sava in Hamas captivity, July 9, 2024. Her two captive sons are depicted on the mural behind her: Eitan Horn, left, and Iair Horn. (Screen capture: Facebook/Bring Them Home Now -- Kfar Saba, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 16, 2025, 7:58 pm
A mother’s anguish: One son to be freed from Gaza, another left behind
Ruth Strom’s son Iair Horn among 33 hostages to be released in deal’s first phase, suggests he is unwell, while Eitan Horn is to remain in Gaza for now
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A Wizz Air jet comes in to land at Gatwick Airport, south of London on June 10, 2022. (Ben Stansall / AFP)
January 16, 2025, 6:14 pm
Wizz Air resumes Tel Aviv-London flights, Lufthansa group to return Feb. 1
Lufthansa’s five airlines will fly routes to six European travel hubs; EasyJet says it will review its plans in the coming days; Turkish Airlines to return to Damascus after decade
By Sharon Wrobel, Agencies and ToI Staff
Laborers sit on the back of an UNRWA truck during a visit by a senior emergency officer of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) to Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 3, 2024. (BASHAR TALEB / AFP)
January 16, 2025, 6:14 pm
US said leading efforts to replace UNRWA, as ban that would paralyze operations looms
Laws barring Israeli cooperation with UN’s Palestinian relief agency set to come into effect in two weeks, with no clear alternative in place
By ToI Staff
US Rep. Michael Waltz walks into the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025. (Kayla Bartkowski/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
January 16, 2025, 3:07 pm
Top Trump official says US will back renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza if needed
National security adviser pick Mike Waltz praises hostage-ceasefire deal but says Hamas must be destroyed, claims all hostages would have died if not for incoming US president
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators take part in a protest calling for the release of Israelis held hostage in Gaza by Hamas and an end to the war, in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2025. (Jack Guez/AFP)
January 16, 2025, 1:41 pm
Text of the hostage-ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Hamas
Copy of deal, the authenticity of which was confirmed to ToI, shows how many Palestinian prisoners Israel must release per freed captive, details terms of Israeli pullout from Gaza
By ToI Staff
Shiri Bibas (center) and her sons Ariel, 4, (left) and baby Kfir, who were abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 (Courtesy)
January 16, 2025, 1:40 pm
Israel-Hamas deal draws renewed attention to hostage children Kfir and Ariel Bibas
Brothers are the only kids still held in Gaza; family issues statement urging against speculation that boys and mother, whose fates are unknown, could be among first released
By JTA and ToI Staff
In this photo released by an official website, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, December 11, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
January 16, 2025, 12:34 pm
Iran calls pending Gaza deal a defeat for Israel, as leaders worldwide welcome pact
From across the globe, nations hail ceasefire agreement, urge humanitarian aid to Palestinian enclave, look forward to seeing hostages go home
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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