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'I've been fighting for my son Tamir to be returned, but I'll get a coffin, not someone to hug'

Haaretz - 12:39 Oct 12, 2025

Yael Adar, mother of Tamir Adar, is finding it hard to celebrate the cease-fire and upcoming hostage release. Shaken by the uncertainty regarding the whereabouts of her son's body, she says her family will only be able to deal with the loss once his body is found
Deputy Palestinian Authority leader set to meet ex-British PM Blair to discuss postwar Gaza

Haaretz - 12:15 Oct 12, 2025

The former British prime minister is due to take a leading role in the Trump-led postwar administration of Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority is examining whether reconciliation with Hamas could advance or deter their involvement in running the Strip

Tags: Gaza British
Witkoff's mention of Netanyahu at Hostage Square triggers wave of jeers and online storm

Haaretz - 11:24 Oct 12, 2025

When Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff mentioned Netanyahu's name at Hostage Square, the crowd's boos set off a political storm. Ministers called it disgraceful, while Israelis online called it democracy in action

Tags: Hostage Square
Trump to visit Israel on Monday, meet Gaza hostage families and address Knesset

Haaretz - 10:43 Oct 12, 2025

According to the schedule released by the White House, Trump will give a speech at the Knesset before leaving to attend a high-level summit in Egypt along with other world leaders to discuss the cease-fire and next steps for the Gaza Strip

Tags: Knesset Trump
Israeli army making preparations to prevent surprise attack amid Gaza withdrawal

Haaretz - 10:42 Oct 12, 2025

The concern in the Israeli army is that its forces could be targeted by terrorists in Gaza who might act independently against the group's mandate to adhere to the cease-fire, as the IDF's current goal is to focus on securing the expected release of the hostages on Monday morning

Tags: Gaza Israeli
Bureaucratic antics for three West Bank villages show how an Israeli annexation began long ago

Haaretz - 09:17 Oct 12, 2025

A military decree has brought the villages of Nabi Samwil, Beit Iksa and Khalaila under 'seam zone' rule, from which all Palestinians but local residents are banned. But actually, for 20 years a raft of edicts like this one have been harassing locals, who now fear for their fate
Gaza cease-fire returns Israel and Hamas to square one: containing the conflict until the next eruption

Haaretz - 08:53 Oct 12, 2025

As Israelis prepare for a mix of celebration and mourning with the return of the hostages, living and dead, Palestinians face a deeper reckoning over their shattered national movement and the absence of any leadership or vision for what comes next
At Hostage Square, Witkoff and Kushner gave Israelis what their own leaders won't: Empathy

Haaretz - 08:45 Oct 12, 2025

Representing Donald Trump at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square on Saturday evening, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were received with a warm embrace, while the mere mention of Netanyahu led to resounding boos. Perhaps it needs to be asked why the hostage families feel that the U.S. cares for and listens to them more than the Israeli government

Tags: Hostage Square
We must welcome international intervention into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Haaretz - 03:56 Oct 12, 2025

The claim that this is foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Israel is, of course, idle nonsense. The fate of the Palestinian people is not an Israeli domestic matter, nor is it an Israeli matter at all. The world has not only a right to come to its aid, it has a duty to do so,
The Gaza war is over, so now a state commission of inquiry into Oct. 7 must begin

Haaretz - 03:39 Oct 12, 2025

Now that the war is over, there are no more excuses. The time has come to establish a state commission of inquiry into the events of October 7: this does not mean a committee for the sake of appearances. One that is legitimate, legal and binding
Why did it take two years to stop the war in Gaza?

Haaretz - 03:22 Oct 12, 2025

No transfer, no real estate, no new neighborhood in Gaza for Israeli police, no image of the last Hamas members raising a white flag. One could say that the agreement could have been signed in January 2024, but it simply wasn't attractive enough for all the parties

Tags: Gaza
A message to far-right minister Smotrich: Trump has spoken – the war in Gaza is over

Haaretz - 03:04 Oct 12, 2025

The end of the war means that Israel's method to date – apply military force to solve negotiating issues – has run its course. Henceforth, whatever disputes down the road about the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza or disarming Hamas will be negotiated

Tags: Gaza
Trump ordered Netanyahu to end the Gaza war. Now military aid to Israel is his target

Haaretz - 03:01 Oct 12, 2025

The rule is clear and simple: Americans don't much care when Israel harms Palestinians, but they do not allow Israel to endanger their regional or global interests or to dictate U.S. policy in the Middle East

Tags: Israel
Israel bets on a dangerous Gaza plan that has no basis in reality

Haaretz - 01:23 Oct 12, 2025

The conditions to disarm Hamas do not exist in Gaza: There is no comprehensive agreement, no stable political structure, and Hamas has no real incentive to surrender its weapons. The Trump model has no basis in reality

Tags: Gaza
U.K. universities told to crack down on antisemitism after synagogue attack

Haaretz - 23:01 Oct 11, 2025

Last year, Britain reported its second-worst yearr in modern times for antisemitism, with more than 3,500 incidents recorded, the Community Security Trust, which provides security to Jewish organisations across the country, said earlier this year
Israeli settlers burn cars, attack Palestinian farmers in West Bank; IDF fires tear gas

Haaretz - 22:42 Oct 11, 2025

Footage shows olive harvesters threatened by settlers, who damaged their equipment. On Friday, settlers wounded seven people in an attack which the town's deputy mayor called the 'most violent, extreme and brutal' in recent years
Israeli soldier dies from IDF grenade blast in Gaza as two remain wounded

Haaretz - 21:13 Oct 11, 2025

Master Sergeant (Res.) Shmuel Gad Rahamim is the 915th soldier killed since the war started on October 7, 2023. The IDF is investigating whether the grenade exploded while being played with
Hamas official tells AFP hostages' return to Israel will begin Monday morning

Haaretz - 20:52 Oct 11, 2025

The hostages are scheduled to return by Monday at 12:00 P.M. under the agreement, but Israeli officials estimate the release could be moved up. While political sources believe locating the bodies of all the deceased hostages in Gaza could take weeks or months, this is not expected to prevent the continued implementation of the deal

Tags: Monday
Drone footage shows the extent of destruction in Gaza City after Israel-Hamas cease-fire

Haaretz - 20:04 Oct 11, 2025

The UN estimates that 83 percent of all structures in Gaza City were damaged or destroyed, along with most of its crops and vegetation

Tags: Gaza City
Israel's Smotrich: Not all IDF deployed to Gaza border on October 7 over 'deception' fears

Haaretz - 17:08 Oct 11, 2025

In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the far-right finance minister said that the attack was 'a grace from God, delivering a painful, severe slap, a great disaster with terrible consequences. This slap woke us up after many years of complacency'

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