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- A senior Hamas official told Agence France-Presse on Saturday that the organization is prepared to release all remaining hostages at one time in exchange for a five-year cease-fire in Gaza. Israel has not yet responded to the report
- LIVE UPDATES ■ Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 49 in 24 hours ■ Hamas delegation is in Cairo for cease-fire talks
- LIVE UPDATES: Hostages' families express condolences over Pope Francis' death, thank him for "openness and moral support" (Credit: Hostages and Missing Families Forum) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Gaza's malnourished children cannot wait. They need food now | Haaretz Editorial
- "This Holocaust Remembrance Day, military pressure on Hamas will continue": Netanyahu compares Hamas to Nazis in memorial day speech, calls Iran threat to "all human society"
- Israel's annexation of the West Bank is already here. By the time it is formally declared, it will already be too late to stop it – the process will have been completed | Haaretz Editorial
- "Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day and an Israeli citizen is screaming for help from a Gaza tunnel": Family of hostage Omri Miran slams captivity video as "shame on the country"
- LIVE UPDATES: Hamas publishes video of Israeli hostage Omri Miran in Gaza captivity
- "He's not just screaming, he's begging us to save him": Hostage Rom Braslavski's family releases part of Hamas video from captivity
- For over a year, Anat – the mother of hostage IDF soldier Matan Angrest – stayed silent, trusting Netanyahu to keep his word and bring the hostages home. But when she realized that the prime minister was leaving her son behind, she took to the streets
- Anything not to achieve peace: the flaws of the Netanyahu doctrine | Opinion | Carolina Landsmann
- LIVE UPDATES: Lebanese Health Ministry says one person killed by Israeli strike on vehicle in southern Lebanon www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- LIVE UPDATES: Netanyahu spokesperson says hostages cannot be brought back in single phase because Hamas is demanding end to war
- LIVE UPDATES ■ Hamas publishes video of Israeli hostage Elkana Bohbot in Gaza captivity ■ Second round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks ends in Rome; third round to reportedly be held next week
- Israel must stop starving Gaza | Haaretz Editorial
- U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Friday morning with a note given to him by U.S. President Donald Trump praying "for peace in Israel"
- LIVE UPDATES ■ IDF says it killed a senior Hezbollah member in Lebanon's Sidon area ■ 43 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes throughout Friday, medical sources in Gaza tell Al Jazeera
- LIVE UPDATES: Hamas rejects Israeli proposal for Gaza cease-fire and hostage deal, Palestinian official tells BBC
- LIVE UPDATES: Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a Gaza field hospital, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, hospital spokesman says
- "Blatant violation of law and human morality": Hundreds of Israeli medics demand prosecution over IDF strike that killed 15 aid workers in Gaza
- Top court halts Shin Bet chief’s ouster until final ruling, bars Netanyahu government from appointing successor
- LIVE UPDATES ■ Trump with Netanyahu at White House: We're having direct talks with Iran ■ Netanyahu: We will eliminate the trade deficit and the tariffs
- Netanyahu arrives at White House for meeting with Trump, will take questions in Oval Office
- LIVE UPDATES: White House announces cancellation of press conference with Netanyahu and Trump
- Netanyahu concludes Budapest visit, heads to Washington: Hungary "defends Israel in the EU," Orbán's ICC exit "a sign of things to come"
- LIVE UPDATES ■ IDF reportedly strikes vehicles in Lebanon's south ■ UNICEF urges Israel to allow access to Gaza for aid convoys
- LIVE UPDATES: U.S. reportedly transfers THAAD missile interceptor, two Patriot batteries to Israel
- 🧵1/4 Israel's interior minister denied entry on Saturday to two British lawmakers who, according to the Population and Immigration Authority, planned to "record Israeli security forces and spread hateful messages against Israel"
- 🧵2/4 The lawmakers, Yuan Young and Abtisam Mohamed, arrived in Israel with two aides and allegedly misrepresented themselves as members of an official parliamentary delegation
- 🧵3/4 Israel's Interior Minister Moshe Arbel blocked their entry after their reported intentions came to light, the authority said. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy confirmed the arrest in a statement released late on Saturday
- 🧵4/4 "I have made clear to my counterparts in the Israeli government that this is no way to treat British Parliamentarians, and we have been in contact with both MPs tonight to offer our support," Lammy said
- Israel's justices must realize that the question before the High Court is whether Israel will continue to be a democracy, with its gatekeepers, its necessary system of checks and balances and the separation of powers | Haaretz Editorial
- LIVE UPDATES: Hamas releases video of hostages Bar Kuperstein and Maxim Herkin
- LIVE UPDATES: Family of Israeli-Russian hostage Maxim Herkin identifies his voice in Hamas teaser clip ahead of full video release
- LIVE UPDATES: Thousands of Israelis are protesting in front of the Knesset, calling on the Israeli government to draft ultra-Orthodox Israelis to the IDF (Credit: Olivier Fitoussi) www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- In Netanyahu's carefully constructed parallel universe, he is never at fault nor takes responsibility. But an empire of lies can eventually collapse – just ask con artist Anna Delvey / @dahliasc.bsky.social
- Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein was identified on Tuesday as the journalist questioned as a suspect in the so-called Qatargate scandal, which revolves around financial ties between Qatar and Netanyahu's aides
- By flip-flopping on his decision to appoint Eli Sharvit as the next head of the Shin Bet, Netanyahu vindicated his critics – who have been saying for years that he prioritizes political considerations over Israel's national security / Amir Tibon
- LIVE UPDATES: White House spokesperson says there have been more than 200 successful strikes on Houthis in Yemen, "Iran incredibly weakened as a result"
- LIVE UPDATES: Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein named as journalist suspected of contact with foreign agent in Qatargate scandal
- LIVE UPDATES: Dozens of settlers raided Palestinian village in the West Bank and set fire to property, defense official says
- LIVE UPDATES: Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says 42 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes since Monday
- LIVE UPDATES ■ "Police are holding them hostage": Netanyahu calls aides' Qatargate arrests "political" ■ Israeli hostage families "outraged and deeply hurt" by the prime minister's choice of words
- In a properly run country, no one is above the law, not even the prime minister. Netanyahu's judges must be guided by this principle and put an end once and for all to his efforts to play for time | Haaretz Editorial
- Yarden Bibas' "60 Minutes" interview shows Israel's released hostages have no faith in Netanyahu / Amir Tibon
- LIVE UPDATES: Palestinian health officials say 20 killed by IDF strikes in the Gaza since Sunday morning, including women and children
- LIVE UPDATES: Sirens sound in Tel Aviv, across central Israel, as IDF says one missile fired from Yemen intercepted outside Israeli territory
- Haaretz Exposé: Billionaire Netanyahu confidant expedited Qatari cash deliveries to Gaza, at Hamas' request
- LIVE UPDATES: UN warns Gaza facing mounting food crisis due to Israeli blockade
- Over 100 Israeli soldiers, settlers raid village in West Bank's Masafer Yatta, locals say
