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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 650

ToI Staff

This handout satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies and dated July 1, 2025, shows an overview of the Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant complex in central Iran after US airstrikes. (Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)
July 17, 2025, 2:39 pm
Report: Of 3 nuke sites hit by US, only Fordo was badly set back; Trump rejected wider op
US intel assessment cited by NBC News indicates less extensive damage at Natanz and Isfahan; Trump said to have eschewed weeks-long campaign targeting 6 sites
By ToI Staff
French policemen escort Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (C), a Lebanese terrorist sentenced to life in prison for the murder of two diplomats, one American and the other Israeli, as Abdallah leaves Pau's Courthouse, southwestern France, on February 18, 2010. (Jean-Louis Duzert / AFP)
July 17, 2025, 1:24 pm
Lebanese man convicted in slaying of Israeli diplomat to be freed from French prison
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah was sentenced to life in 1987 for his role in the 1982 murders of Israeli envoy Yacov Barsimantov and US military attache Charles Robert Ray
By Agencies and ToI Staff
This handout picture provided by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs reportedly shows members of the Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged Magic Seas commercial vessel climbing on board the Safeen Prism, after being rescued following a Houthi attack that forced them to abandon ship, in the Red Sea on July 6, 2025. (UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation / AFP)
July 17, 2025, 12:25 pm
‘I thought I was going to die’: Sailor recalls Houthi assault that sank cargo ship
Filipino mariner notes it was his first passage through Red Sea, describes panic among crew during July 6 attack, says images of family flashed before his eyes during gunfight
By AFP and ToI Staff
Ahmad Abu Ganima poses for a portrait in the window of the minibus buried in the earth, a makeshift bomb shelter his family uses in Khashem Zaneh, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, July 2, 2025. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
July 17, 2025, 10:55 am
Burrowing into ground, Israel’s Bedouin build makeshift bomb shelters to skirt red tape
Residents of unrecognized Negev villages are unable to get permits to construct secure rooms, so instead they improvise what they can, for peace of mind if not actual protection
By AP and ToI Staff
Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa speaks in a recorded statement released early on July 17, 2025, following clashes and Israeli strikes in the Druze-majority province of Sweida. (Telegram screenshot)
July 17, 2025, 9:52 am
After IDF strikes, Syria’s Sharaa accuses Israel of seeking ‘chaos and destruction’
Syrian president vows state will protect its Druze minority, hold those behind the violence accountable; dismisses efforts to drag Syrians into hands of any ‘external party’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Police detain an Israeli suspected of spying for Iran in Tiberias, before announcing the arrest on June 30, 2025. (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law/Channel 12)
July 17, 2025, 8:15 am
Concern over homegrown Iranian spies prompts Israeli PR campaign to dissuade them
Warning of ‘Easy Money, Heavy Price,’ National Public Diplomacy Directorate launches advertising effort to dissuade public from taking cash to collude with the enemy
By JTA and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video released July 17, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)
July 17, 2025, 1:42 am
Netanyahu: Entire area between Damascus and Israel border off-limits for Syrian army
PM adds ceasefire was achieved through force * Israel says it does not target religious sites after Gaza church hit * Trump reportedly rejected plan for weekslong campaign against Iran
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a ceremony at the US State Department in Washington, July 16, 2025. (Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP)
July 17, 2025, 1:21 am
Rubio: ‘We think we’re on our way toward a real deescalation’ between Israel, Syria
US secretary of state says clashes in Druze-majority area of Sweida led to ‘misunderstanding’ between Israel and Sharaa regime; UN, EU and others demand end to Israeli strikes
By Agencies and ToI Staff
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in an image published on July 14, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
July 16, 2025, 9:52 pm
Official says Gaza deal ‘more likely than not,’ as Israel said to retract pullback demands
Sources involved in mediation tell ToI Jerusalem ended insistence on remaining in several areas, opening window for deal within days; Zamir: IDF will intensify operations if no deal
By Jacob Magid, Nava Freiberg, ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: Ambassadors vote on a resolution during the United Nations General Assembly in New York, February 24, 2025. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
July 16, 2025, 9:52 pm
International summit on Palestinian state set for September, French source says
World leaders expected to meet in New York ahead of UN General Assembly following minister-level conference this month
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Jakkapan Diawthaisong (Courtesy)
July 16, 2025, 9:49 pm
Jakkapan Diawthaisong, 37: Thai agricultural worker, ex-soccer player
Murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in Kibbutz Alumim
By ToI Staff
Sgt. Omer Ginzburg (Israel Defense Forces)
July 16, 2025, 9:46 pm
Sgt. Omer Ginzburg, 19: Paratrooper, sports lover who ‘spread light’
Killed battling Hamas in southern Gaza on August 11, 2024
By ToI Staff
Eden Yerushalmi (Courtesy)
July 16, 2025, 9:45 pm
Eden Yerushalmi, 24: Budding pilates instructor who loved fashion
Kidnapped from the Supernova music festival on October 7, murdered in captivity in August 2024
By ToI Staff
IDF Brig. Gen. (ret.) Amal As'ad speaks to Channel 12, July 16, 2025. (Screen capture: Channel 12)
July 16, 2025, 7:20 pm
Retired Druze IDF general accuses Syria’s Sharaa of seeking to ‘eliminate the Druze’
Amal As’ad slams Israeli overtures toward ‘terrorist’ who ‘put on a suit and became a diplomat,’ calls for Netanyahu to do more than make ‘threats and statements’
By ToI Staff
Israeli troops use tear gas to disperse the crowds as Druze attempt to cross the Syrian border on the Golan Heights near Majdal Shams on July 16, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
July 16, 2025, 5:19 pm
Border chaos as 1,000 Druze breach frontier into Syria; heavy IDF strikes hit Damascus
IDF attempts to stop Syrian Druze from entering Israel; death toll in Syrian regime attacks on Sweida nears 250; IDF airstrikes hit Syrian general staff HQ, near presidential palace, army convoys
By Emanuel Fabian, Nurit Yohanan, Agencies and ToI Staff
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