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• Who is Marwan Barghouti – jailed terrorist or Palestinian Mandela? And why does Hamas want him released?

  Haaretz - 19:43 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Long seen as a successor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences in Israel for murder. Hamas has specifically asked for his release in a potential hostage-prisoner swap. Is Barghouti a unifying pragmatist or a terrorist mastermind?

  Tags: Hamas Marwan Barghouti

• Why Israel's far right opposes a deal to free Israeli hostages held by Hamas

  Haaretz - 18:40 Feb 05, 2024
  

  We have an entire hypothetical future to keep any evil that we are forced to release at bay, despite our past failures. Unlike Ben-Gvir, a reckless minister forcing his security guards to play tag, the hostages have no time left

• Israeli strike on Hezbollah drone base revealed in satellite images

  Haaretz - 17:46 Feb 05, 2024
  

  The airbase in Lebanon was targeted after Hezbollah launched attack drones at an Israeli Iron Dome battery ten days ago. The new footage shows the impaired runway and nearby hangars

  Tags: Hezbollah

• Israeli court approves lenient plea bargain for cop charged with obstructing murder investigation

  Haaretz - 17:21 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Chief Warrant Officer Chaim Gabai, who failed to report his connection to the main suspect in the northern Israeli murder case, will be convicted of fraud and breach of trust, while the main charge against him – obstruction of justice – is dropped

  Tags: Israeli

• Bodyguards forced to chase minister Ben-Gvir as he flees his own security in the West Bank

  Haaretz - 17:07 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Israel's national security minister, who has the tightest security level offered, was furious at his security team and got in his neighbor's car after the guards weren't ready

• El Al cancels summer flights to Dublin and Marrakech due to low demand

  Haaretz - 16:11 Feb 05, 2024
  

  El Al insists its decision to cancel the two lines is based solely on customer demand, rather than on the political position of Ireland and Morocco with regard to Israel's war in Gaza

• Second Israeli bank blocks West Bank settler's account in compliance with U.S. sanctions

  Haaretz - 16:02 Feb 05, 2024
  

  The Israeli government-owned Postal Bank closed the account of David Chai Hasdai, who was included in the list of American sanctions, a day after a similar move by Bank Leumi; Bank of Israel issued a statement backing Leumi's decision to comply with sanctions

• Families of Nova party massacre victims demand answers from Israeli lawmakers

  Haaretz - 15:44 Feb 05, 2024
  

  The family members said in a Knesset hearing that they have not received information about what happened to their loved ones and that the state does not provide them with support

• 14-year-old Palestinian shot and killed after attempted stabbing near Jerusalem

  Haaretz - 15:25 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Police say the teen, identified as Wadee' Oweisat, raised officers' suspicions, and tried to stab them after they started searching him. Border Police Commander told officers, 'This is exactly what I expect from our fighters in every event'

• Why the U.S. plan to sideline Hamas in post-war Gaza is doomed

  Haaretz - 14:40 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Israel is unlikely to 'win' the war in Gaza: Hamas seems likely to emerge still in control and with overwhelming popular support. That is a problem for the U.S.-led plan to rebuff Hamas and 'revitalize' the beleaguered Palestinian Authority in its place

  Tags: Gaza Hamas

• Israeli art and literature have repressed Gaza, too

  Haaretz - 14:02 Feb 05, 2024
  

  In recent decades, Israeli society's growing detachment from Gaza has led to it being largely ignored in culture, with works that did address it acknowledging that it could only be seen through a military filter

  Tags: Gaza Israeli

• Haifa municipality seeks to block launch of a book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  Haaretz - 13:41 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Residents have expressed their opposition to the upcoming event, which is scheduled to launch the Hebrew translation of the book that recounts the story of a friendship between two bereaved fathers, one Israeli and the other Palestinian

• Israeli lawyer to Qatari state fund advises army in hostage negotiations; IDF: 'no conflict of interest'

  Haaretz - 13:20 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Lawyer Joseph Benkel represents Qatar Charity, a foundation controlled by the Qatari government, which has been used to transfer funds to Hamas. After the war broke out, Benkel was drafted to Israeli army reserve duty as an advisor to the hostage negotiations

  Tags: Israeli Qatari

• In Gaza, a six-year-old lies before a tank among the bodies

  Haaretz - 13:08 Feb 05, 2024
  

  The name Hind Hamada won't mean anything to Israelis. And why would it? But her smiling face is probably now familiar to every Palestinian household.

• Is the U.S. finally calling Iran's bluff with strikes on Tehran-backed militias?

  Haaretz - 13:03 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Recent U.S. attacks on militias in Syria, Iraq and Yemen have no tangible strategic goals and are not meant to achieve anything beyond what they are, but they can still reshuffle the regional deck that Iran believes it exclusively controls

• Spain to give UNRWA extra $3.8 million after key donors suspend aid amid Israeli allegations

  Haaretz - 13:01 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Neighboring Portugal announced additional aid to UNRWA worth one million euros. Its foreign minister wrote it was essential 'not to turn our backs on the Palestinian population at this difficult time'

  Tags: UNRWA

• The war in Gaza has created a chaotic mash-up musical

  Haaretz - 10:12 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Anyone who's anyone has been releasing songs since the war began, but it was an artist who hasn't recorded a song, Idan Amedi, who was the headline act in the news. Plus, a new musical hits Israeli screens about the Six-Day War

• Israeli shot dead after attacking civilians and cops in Be'er Sheva, police say

  Haaretz - 10:03 Feb 05, 2024
  

  The suspect, Murshed Abd al-Hai, wrote a suicide note and left his home in Tira. According to police, he attacked passersby, shouting 'Allahu Akbar,' before officers shot him in the leg. His brother denies the police's claims

• Hamas reemerges in northern Gaza in bid to demonstrate control

  Haaretz - 09:36 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Hamas is trying to broadcast that the organization is still in control by ramping up the fighting against the IDF in the northern Strip and in Gaza City, and by demonstrating control of civilians. So far, it's mostly demonstrative

  Tags: Hamas

• Israel and Gaza at the Grammys: Artists pay tribute to Nova massacre victims, others call for cease-fire

  Haaretz - 09:23 Feb 05, 2024
  

  Influencer Montana Tucker wore a yellow-ribbon dress to show solidarity with the Gaza hostages, Annie Lennox called for a ceasefire in Gaza, and the Recording Academy CEO paid tribute to Nova Festival victims at the award ceremony in Los Angeles

  Tags: Gaza

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