This number is staggering. Who, in their wildest imaginations could have thought or believed that we would be living in October 700, 2023
700 Days of war, 900 soldiers dead, 1200 people killed on one day, 251 hostages taken- 700 days ago and today, 700 days later, beyond anyone’s hardened thoughts and imagination, we still have 48 hostages held in captivity by the same barbaric terrorists who committed the atrocities of October 7.
And it is 699 days past the date that the government and the prime minister responsible for the abandonment didn’t take full responsibility and resign in shame with their heads bowed knowing that they enabled the barbarians to do all that they did on that day and since. And it is this same government of shameless self-interested politicians who do nothing while 48 of our hostages remain in Gaza. There is no shame, no responsibility, no head bowing, no major efforts to bring them home as though the hostages have all the time in the world.
These petty politicians continue to act as though it is October 6, that nothing has changed and October 7 was just an annoying blip on their radar and it’s over. They can continue with their pettiness of budget and power grabbing to reach their personal and party goals of taking the biggest piece of the pie that they can. The country is there to serve them, not the other way around.
If we were to say to them “700”, many would ask ‘700 what?’ They are so removed from what we, the entire country, are going through that they have no awareness of the pain, the trauma, the suffering of millions of us who feel the pain of the Hostages’ families, we can’t sleep through the nights, our minds are occupied with the horrors that the hostages are going through and the traumas of the soldiers. Each and every thing that we do in the day is filled with thoughts of the hostages. We go out to eat at a restaurant and think “how can I allow myself to enjoy this while the hostages are starving?”, we wash dishes and think that the amount of water used to wash this pot is more water than the hostages are getting to drink in a week, we go to the doctor and think that for 700 days, the hostages who are sick and injured are not receiving any worthy medical care or even being checked. We go about our days in a strange type of new normal where nothing is normal and nothing should be normal, and all of our thoughts are about the hostages, their families and the soldiers being sent to fight a war that should have ended long ago.
And our prime minister removes from the negotiating team all those whose first and only thoughts and actions are to get the hostages home. Instead, he replaces them with his yes men, topping the list to run the negotiations is his closest advisor, Dermer who would never do anything that his boss doesn’t want done. Dermer, who in the early months of the war, went around Washington telling everyone that the hostages are all dead. Dermer, who in 6 months in the position hasn’t brought a single hostage home. Dermer, who said to the father of a soldier hostage who was reported killed and his body is being held by Hamas, “What do I care about 20 hostages (referring only to the living)? If there were 6 million, that would be another story.” For him, just like his boss, 20 lives are a small price to pay for Netanyahu’s political survival.
It was reported by a close advisor to Netanyahu, not Dermer, that Netanyahu is prepared to deal with another 200 bereaved families. So, 20 truly means nothing to him and the dead hostages, even less.
Arthur Miller wrote the play ‘All My Sons’ where the protagonist, Joe manufactured airplane parts for the fighter planes in WW2. He knowingly shipped faulty parts because it would have been financially devastating to replace them and 21 pilots crashed and died as a result. He, too refused to take responsibility and shifted all blame to his hapless partner who went to prison. His son, Larry upon finding out about his father’s culpability and refusal to take responsibility, takes his own life and the play ends with Joe then killing himself. Before his final exit and the gunshot sound, Joe said “Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were.”
Joe never really took responsibility for his actions and his family paid terrible prices for it.
We have a Joe leading this country and he never ever takes responsibility for anything that goes wrong. It is always the fault of someone else. When something good happens, he is the first to jump into the spotlight and take credit for it all.
And opposed to Joe’s son, Larry who can’t live with himself due to his father’s knowing actions that caused many to die, our Joe has a son who lives in luxury in Miami on the taxpayers’ shekels and creates never ending conspiracies blaming and accusing everyone and anyone who opposes his father. There is no guilt, no culpability, no responsibility, not on his part and of course, not on his father’s part. There is only them and what is good for them. The country should willingly pay whatever price for them to continue living in this way with his father being crowned for life.
We are not living in an Arthur Miller play. We are living in the real life of Israel where we are on day 700 of a never-ending war, with 48 hostages rotting away in Gaza, with most of the nation calling for an end to the war and a return of the hostages as the number one priority for our country. But for the one person who has the power to make it so, he chooses to go against the best interests of the country and the people in order to remain in power and reinvent the history of the past 700 days (and the years before).
The family of Hamas-held hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal has authorized the release of part of a video posted by the terror group today showing him in captivity.
In the 28-second clip, Gilboa-Dalal says the date is August 28, 2025, and that he is being held by Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades in Gaza City.
Gilboa-Dalal is shown with short hair, wearing a dark blue shirt, and displaying expressions of distress, placing his face in his hands. In part of the video, he appears to be sitting in the backseat of a car aboveground.
In remarks likely dictated to him by his captors, he pleads for his release.
“This is all we want, we just want it to end,” he says. “We want to return to our families. Please bring us back.”
The full video also includes footage of Alon Ohel, the first time he has been seen in a video since he, Gilboa-Dalal, and hundreds of others were taken hostage during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
Ohel’s family has not consented to the publication of the footage showing him.
Gilboa-Dalal’s family said in a statement, “We received a sign of life from our Guy after half a year since the last video where he was seen with Evyatar David, watching their friends be released” during a ceasefire in February.
The statement adds, “Guy, Alon and other hostages were taken to Gaza and we fear greatly for their lives. We must bring them home.”
The posting of the video, widely seen as propaganda for the terror group, comes as Israel is ramping up an offensive in Gaza City. Hamas published it on the 700th day of the war, as protests across Israel called for an agreement to release the 48 hostages still held by terror groups in Gaza, at least 20 of whom are thought to be alive. video in Hebrew
Alon Ohel, taken captive by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023 from the Supernova rave. (Courtesy)
The family of hostage Alon Ohel confirms that he is the second captive seen in the video published today by Hamas.
The video posted by the terror group also shows footage of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal. Unusually, Gilboa-Dalal is seen in part of the footage above ground, inside a car. In the video, he refers to being held captive for 22 months, which could indicate that the footage was filmed recently.
Ohel’s family has now consented to his being identified as the second hostage in the video, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
This is the first time a video has been released showing Ohel in captivity. His family received their first sign of life for him during a ceasefire in February, when released hostages reported having been held alongside him. At the time, his mother said she was told that he was being held starving in chains in a Hamas tunnel, and had multiple untreated injuries.
The families have not given consent for the video itself to be published.
Reacting to a video Hamas published today of hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal, politicians from across the political spectrum say it affirms their positions on the war in Gaza.
Opposition lawmakers respond to the video, which also included footage of another hostage, by saying it underscores their calls for a deal to free the 48 hostages held by terror groups in Gaza, at least 20 of whom, including Gilboa-Dalal, are thought to be alive.
“The sign of life that was publicized this morning is another painful reminder that Israel must return to negotiations to bring back the captives and try to close a deal,” Opposition Leader Yair Lapid posted on X.
Yair Golan, chair of the left-wing Democrats party, wrote, that the video “illustrates the immediate need to bring everyone back,” adding, “The most just war in Israel’s history has become a war for [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s survival.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, by contrast, repeats his demand for Israel to occupy Gaza.
“Hamas’ psychological terror is meant to make us stop the operation in Gaza,” he posts on X. “The warranted response: Full occupation, total crushing, encouragement of massive [Palestinian] migration. Only thus do we win, and only thus do we bring back the hostages in security.”
The family of the second hostage has asked for him not to be identified, according to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. The families have not given consent for the video itself to be published.
Mediator says final US proposal calls for release of all hostages and end to Gaza war
Bishara Bahbah, who has served as a broker between Hamas and Washington, says Trump is seeking to heavily pressure Netanyahu to accept the terms
A Palestinian-American political activist who has been mediating between the Trump administration and the Hamas terror group said Wednesday that the final ceasefire proposal on the table is a comprehensive US deal to end the Israel-Hamas war and free all the hostages held in Gaza.
In an interview with the Saudi news outlet al-Arabiya, Bishara Bahbah said, “There was a meeting in Washington that, according to what I know, lasted six hours, and it was decided that there would be one final proposal on the table: the release of all the [hostages] and an end to the war.”
Bahbah is not an official member of the US negotiating team, but has been serving as a liaison between the Trump administration and Hamas.
Hours earlier, the terror group declared that it was open to a comprehensive deal, a statement that was immediately dismissed by Israel as spin.
Speaking to al-Arabiya, Bahbah said that he had “contacted Hamas about the matter [of a comprehensive deal], and they were skeptical — they didn’t know if it was something official.”
But he said that after officials in the terror group saw US President Donald Trump’s social media post calling for an end to the war, they “were convinced it was official, and immediately responded that they agree to this deal.”
Bishara Bahbah gives an interview on Al Ghad TV on June 24, 2025. (Screenshot/ Facebook)
The Hamas statement on Wednesday said that it was willing “to enter into a comprehensive deal in which all enemy prisoners held by the resistance will be freed in exchange for an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners held by the occupation.” The terror group refers to the hostages it holds as prisoners.
It also said that it was ready to form “an independent national administration of technocrats” to run Gaza.
The Prime Minister’s Office has said said the war can end immediately if five conditions are met — the release of all hostages; the disarmament of Hamas; the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; Israeli security control in Gaza; and “the establishment of an alternative civilian administration that does not indoctrinate for terror, does not dispatch terror, and does not threaten Israel.”
The Hamas statement came after Trump posted on his Truth Social network on Wednesday: “Tell Hamas to IMMEDIATELY give back all 20 Hostages (Not 2 or 5 or 7!), and things will change rapidly. IT WILL END!”
The US president appeared to be referring to the number of hostages believed by Israel to still be alive. Officially, only 26 of the 48 hostages being held in Gaza have been declared dead by Israel, but authorities have expressed grave concern about two others. The families of slain hostages have expressed fears over the possibility of a deal that would leave their loved ones’ remains inside Gaza.
Bahbah said that Trump is seeking to heavily pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into accepting such a deal and ending the war — a message he passed on to Hamas.
The mediator said that the war “could be ended in two weeks” if both sides are serious about the talks, and said there were more “positive signs” than ever before about the potential for a deal.
A displaced Palestinian woman bathes her daughter at the Bureij camp for displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on September 3, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
However, Israel appeared to dismiss Hamas’s announcement on Wednesday night, as the Israel Defense Forces continued to advance its plan to conquer Gaza City.
“This is more spin by Hamas, containing nothing new,” Netanyahu’s office said.
In a similar message, Defense Minister Israel Katz called on Hamas to either accept Israel’s conditions to end the war — including the release of all hostages and disarmament — or see Gaza City “become like Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” accusing the terror group of continuing to “deceive and utter empty words.”
Responding to Netanyahu and Katz, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said that while the government “does not have to accept Hamas’s conditions, it must immediately return to negotiations and try to close a deal.”
“You can’t not even try to return our hostages home,” demanded Lapid. Link
Israel fears Hamas could hide hostages among civilians during Gaza City evacuation As Israel readies deeper push into Gaza City, military officials warn terror group could use mass civilian evacuations to move hostages south; families told of heightened risks, highlighting challenge of battling terrorists while protecting captives
As Israel prepares for a new ground maneuver in Gaza City, military officials say they fear Hamas could use the chaos of mass civilian evacuations to secretly move hostages held in the territory.
In recent days, the army informed families of hostages that it intends to ensure captives are not harmed in the operation, part of a broader campaign dubbed Operation Gideon’s Chariots II. Officials believe hostages are being held in Gaza City but say they lack precise intelligence on their whereabouts, a factor that heightens the risk.
“It’s clear the operation puts them at risk,” a military official told Ynet and its sister publication Yedioth Ahronoth. “It’s difficult to predict how Hamas will act — whether they will guard the hostages, use them as shields or, God forbid, kill some to manipulate events.”
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has ordered forces to act with caution, anticipating that Hamas could move hostages south under the cover of tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing Gaza City. The army has established designated humanitarian corridors for civilians and pledged not to fire in those areas.
Israeli officials say Hamas has used this tactic before, disguising hostages as fighters or concealing their identities as they were transferred on foot. Such moves have complicated Israeli strikes, as in Rafah in August of last year, when forces maneuvered knowing captives were nearby. At the end of that month, Hamas executed six hostages held in a tunnel in Rafah’s Tel al-Sultan neighborhood.
A newly released photograph underscores the military’s concern. Taken by a Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynet team on Gaza City’s Sheikh Ajlin beach in November 2023, the image shows Israeli soldiers posting a Hebrew sign instructing hostages to “collapse” so troops could identify them in the crowd. Officials feared even then that Hamas would smuggle captives among civilians moving south.
A sign posted by Israeli soldiers on the beach in Gaza City’s Sheikh Ajlin neighborhood in November 2023 reads in Hebrew, 'If you are a hostage, collapse so we can identify you'
(Photo: Alex Kolomoisky)
The army says it intends to avoid striking areas where hostages are suspected, even at the cost of not decisively defeating Hamas forces there. Officials have also told the government that a partial hostage deal — releasing about half of the captives still alive — could enable greater freedom of action in Gaza City.
On Thursday, army spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Israeli troops now control 40% of Gaza City and will deepen operations soon. His comments came on the eve of the 700th day of the war, with 48 hostages still in Hamas captivity.
Defrin also addressed tensions between military leaders and the government over postwar plans. He said Zamir supports the overall operational plan but presents the army’s professional stance in the relevant forums. On the possibility of military rule in Gaza, Defrin said: “The chief of staff never said he supports it. He said if there is no other solution, a military administration will be necessary.” Link"Israel fears Hamas could hide hostages among civilians during Gaza City evacuation" You would have to be an idiot or have had your head in the sand for 700 days to not know for sure that Hamas will be hiding hostages among civilians and moving them from place to place among civilians. This is what they have already done with many of the returned hostages, so to think otherwise is to be blind to what has already happened. The army and every soldier fighting in Gaza knows that their actions are putting the hostages at a much higher risk of being executed by their captors. This is not a hypothetical. There have been too many of our hostages who were killed by execution in this way. The Hamas terrorist guards have very clear instructions. If they hear, see or think that our soldiers are anywhere in close proximity to the hostages, they are to execute them immediately. In addition, we know from released hostages who were in the tunnels, that the terrorists booby trapped all of the areas around the hostages. In the event that soldiers are approaching, the terrorists will set off the explosives to kill the hostages and as many soldiers as possible. I have no doubt, based on several Hamas ambushes that they have multiple booby traps in order to set them off at different times, first to kill the hostages and any soldiers around them and then a second set to kill the soldiers who come to rescue the injured. No matter how much military pressure is put on Gaza and Hamas, the only way to bring the hostages home without risk of execution or death from our aerial bombings is to make a deal and end the war!
An exhibit in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square marks 700 days since the October 7, 2023, massacre, on September 5, 2025. (Rei Ash/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
Protests are being held across Israel today to mark 700 days since the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led invasion and massacre, and to call for the release of the remaining 48 hostages.
In Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, activists have displayed a large “SOS” sign on the ground, along with a sand timer, signaling that time is running out for the hostages. Protesters wearing yellow shirts and head coverings are dotted about the exhibit.
Additional protests are scheduled to take place throughout the day, and at a demonstration outside the President’s Residence in Jerusalem at 8 a.m.
At 9 a.m., members of Kibbutz Nir Oz will deliver a statement to the media from Kiryat Gat. Several former hostages will be in attendance, the Kan public broadcaster says, including Arbel Yehoud, whose partner Ariel Cunio is still captive in Gaza.
Survivors of the October 7, 2023, massacre in Kibbutz Nir Oz mark 700 days since the brutal Hamas-led invasion with a press conference in Kiryat Gat, where the community was temporarily relocated in the wake of the assault.
Among those speaking are former hostages Arbel Yehoud and Iair Horn. Yehoud’s partner, Ariel Cunio, and Horn’s brother, Eitan Horn, are still held captive in Gaza.
“I have a million stories about what it’s like to be in hell, to be in captivity,” says Horn. “I can say that we didn’t eat anything, that there was no air to breathe in the tunnels, that we barely drank water — and even when we did, it was salty. But after 700 days, it seems that it doesn’t matter to anyone, and that it’s ok to keep people captive.”
“I never imagined that we would reach the 700th day and that I would have to stand here and talk about my brother Eitan, who is still a hostage, and my friends who are still being held hostage,” Horn says.
He says that he doesn’t want to end up like the brother of Ron Arad, who has been classified as missing since 1988, or like Tzur Goldin, the brother of Hadar Goldin, whose body has been held by Hamas since 2014.
“I want to be with my brother now,” he says.
When Yehoud speaks, she laments all that was lost when Hamas-led terrorists stormed into the “private paradise” of Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7.
“We were abducted from there to the depths of hell in Gaza,” says Yehoud, who spent 482 days in captivity. “There are no special days in captivity, you survive each day as it comes, every minute is an eternity and every second brings the risk of death.”
“There is immense anxiety, abuse, and terrible suffering,” adds Yehoud, before addressing Cunio directly.
“I am fighting, do not break, my love,” she pleads. “Keep holding on to hope and do not let go for a second. We will not give up, and we will not break for a second until you return to us.”
Hamas releases video of hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal and another captive
In fresh propaganda clip dated Aug. 28, 2025, Gilboa Dalal seen riding in vehicle and shown with another captive
Hamas on Friday released a video showing hostage Guy Gilboa Dalal, in which he appears riding in a vehicle and states that the footage was filmed on Aug. 28, 2025. In the clip, Gilboa Dalal is also seen meeting another hostage inside a car.
Publication of the full content of the video has been withheld at the request of the families.
This is the second sign of life from Gilboa Dalal this year. In February, Hamas circulated another video showing him and fellow hostage Evyatar David being forced to witness the release of hostages Omer Wenkert, Omer Shem Tov and Eliya Cohen in what families described as a cruel staged “ceremony.”
Gilboa Dalal, from the West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe, was abducted from the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, during Hamas’ surprise attack. He had attended the event with his brother Gal, who managed to escape.His mother, Merav, has spoken publicly about his passion for Japanese culture. “Guy started with anime series — it captivated him,” she said. “He wanted to travel to Japan with a friend and began reading signs in Japanese. His dream was to see the cherry blossoms and speak to people in their own language.”
His father said the family clings to hope every day despite the uncertainty. “We have no source of information about what is happening to him,” he said. “Our hope is that he was not injured. Every morning we wake up and every night we go to bed hoping for good news.” link
Hostage families headquarters: No plan presented to ensure operation won't become 'murder of the six - part 2'
The headquarters of the families of the hostages has responded to updates from IDF officers that the operation in Gaza City will increase the risk to living hostages, stating: "This operation immediately and directly endangers our loved ones who have been languishing in the depths of Hamas tunnels for 700 days. Unfortunately, we haven't heard of any way to protect them and no plan was presented to us that would ensure how Operation Gideon's Chariots 2 won't turn into 'murder of the six - part 2'." They added: "We are shocked by the Chief of Staff's decision to cooperate with an unnecessary war."
Families warn Gaza offensive endangers hostages as IDF admits no clear intelligence on their whereabouts
Relatives of captives demand urgent talks with Israeli leaders, saying Gaza City offensive risks repeating past tragedies like executions of hostages in Rafah and urging immediate negotiations for release deal
Families of hostages held in Gaza demanded answers from Israel’s leadership Friday, saying the army has admitted it has no precise information on the captives’ whereabouts as it prepares for a ground offensive in Gaza City.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum issued a blistering statement, warning that the planned assault under Operation Gideon’s Chariots II could place their loved ones in immediate peril.
“We are worried to the depths of our souls,” the group said. “This action directly endangers our loved ones, who have languished in Hamas tunnels for 700 days."
The families warned their loved ones could meet the fate of six hostages executed in Rafah last year, when Israeli forces operated nearby without knowing captives were held there. "Sadly, we have not heard of any plan to protect them, nor have we been shown any strategy to ensure that Gideon’s Chariots II does not turn into ‘Murder of the Six II,’" they added. "Forty-eight of our loved ones are at risk of being murdered or disappearing forever in the ruins of Gaza.”
The families criticized IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir, accusing him of backing “a needless war” even though they said he privately believes the same military objectives could be achieved without jeopardizing hostages or soldiers.
“What did not work in Gideon’s Chariots I will not work in Part II or Part VII,” the statement read. “There is a deal on the table — that is what will bring back the last hostage, that is what will end the war.”
(Photo: Tomer Shuem Halevi)
The group called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz and Zamir to meet with them urgently to explain how hostages would be safeguarded and to launch immediate negotiations based on a framework previously proposed by U.S. special envoy Steve Wittkoff, which they said could serve as a lever for a comprehensive deal.
Earlier Friday, families and former hostages from Kibbutz Nir Oz, now relocated to Kiryat Gat, marked 700 days since the start of the war with a statement urging the government to halt the fighting and secure the captives’ release through a deal with Hamas.
In Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, relatives mounted a large display with a yellow “S.O.S.” and a red hourglass to symbolize time running out. link
A screenshot from an illustrative IDF video showing a digital rendering of a Hamas observational command center in a Gaza City building. (Israel Defense Forces)
The IDF announces that in the coming days it will carry out targeted strikes against multi-story buildings in Gaza City that Hamas has converted into military infrastructure, confirming Defense Minister Israel Katz’s earlier comments.
Alongside that announcement, media outlets in Gaza report that the IDF struck the Al-Mushtaha tower in Gaza City three times. Footage shows a heavy cloud of smoke at the site, after residents were called to evacuate. It is unclear whether there were any casualties in the incident. The IDF has yet to comment on the strike.
According to the military’s announcement, intelligence has revealed that Hamas has embedded sniper and anti-tank positions, surveillance systems, command-and-control centers and observation posts inside residential buildings, while also planting explosives nearby to ambush Israeli forces. Additionally, the terror group’s tunnels are said to run beneath and around these buildings.
The IDF says these sites pose a direct threat to its troops as operations in Gaza City expand, and therefore will be struck soon.
The military stresses that it will issue warnings and employ precision strikes to reduce the risk to civilians, while again accusing Hamas of using Gaza’s civilian population as human shields.
The confirmation follows Katz’s declaration earlier today that the “gates of Hell” in Gaza are opening, signaling that the campaign to seize Gaza City is entering a new phase.
Yesterday, IDF spokesperson Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said Israeli forces now control roughly 40 percent of the city and intend to push further in the coming days as part of the broader plan to seize full control. link Before going in to Gaza City, it was known that all the high rise buildings there are a major threat to IDF forces. Hamas set up sniper positions in many of the buildings, if not all, set multiple booby traps to ambush entering soldiers and secondary booby traps the attack and kill second forces coming to rescue the soldiers killed, injured or trapped from the first explosions. However, taking out these buildings as the defense minister Katz wants done, the risks of bombing the buildings is to Gazans who refuse to evacuate and especially to the hostages who are being held underground. Several of our hostages have been killed and seriously injured from our own aerial bombings and we are risking the same thing here. The killing of non combatants who have chosen to stay in Gaza City and the possible killing and injuring of our hostages have no impact on our failed politicians who are heading this non ending war (Netanyahu, Katz, Dermer). All of the lives lost in this opportunity are the price they deem necessary for Netanyahu's political survival.
An IDF graphic depicting Al-Mushtaha tower in Gaza City, which the IDF says was used for Hamas activity, before it was targeted in an air strike on September 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
The IDF confirms that it struck a high-rise building in Gaza City earlier today, following reports from media in Gaza that the Al-Mushtaha tower was hit three times.
According to the military, the building was being used by Hamas as operational infrastructure, including underground facilities beneath the tower that were utilized to plan attacks, stage ambushes against IDF forces and provide escape routes for terror operatives.
The IDF says it took measures ahead of the strike to reduce civilian harm, including issuing warnings, using precision munitions, conducting aerial surveillance and drawing on additional intelligence.
Footage from Gaza had earlier shown a large cloud of smoke rising from the site after residents were told to evacuate. video With all the 'measures' that the IDF took to reduce civilian harm, we have no idea how many non combatant victims there are to this total levelling of a high rise building in Gaza City. We know that the majority of residents in the city have refused to evacuate and the IDF numbers of those who did are highly exaggerated - around 70,000, but this is out of 1 million, meaning that hundreds of thousands of residents and refugees are still there. If numbers of people killed are released by the IDF, the IDF claim will be that most of them were Hamas operatives, at the same time that pictures of women and children victims will be released by Hamas and Palestinian journalists. Of course, we cannot and should not rely only on Hamas reporting of victims because they simply lie and exaggerate but we should not discount the figures and the pictures either. Israel likes to claim that the IDF is the most moral army in the world. The two words "moral" and "army" are non sequiturs. There is no place for those two words to be in the same sentence. But let's say that, before this war, the IDF actually did make great efforts to safeguard innocents or minimize their deaths by changing operational tactics or even calling off missions, that cannot be said any longer. We have killed tens of thousands of non combatants, women, children, elderly, infirmed. There were personal conflicts among commanders on the ground and the Air Force commanders who sent the fighter jets to bomb. Due to the huge non combatant body count, the ground commanders were demanding the be the final green light before the air force could go on their bombing missions. That is how bad it got and is still going on. I have no doubt that this building, the largest to be destroyed in this operation is meant to be a symbol to all those who refuse to evacuate. I am certain that the symbolism is far more the goal than hitting Hamas infrastructure in this building. Katz and the security cabinet want the entire Gaza City flattened with no remnants of what there is to be standing by the end of the operation. That is the symbolism they want to show all Palestinians, that this government of war criminal will total destroy their infrastructure and everyone inside and around without batting an eyelash. It matters not one bit how many women and children are killed as long as it makes the statement they want heard.
IDF releases new images of slain Hamas spokesman, video of his killing.
From left to right, Hamas leaders Muhammad Deif, Hudhaifa Kahlout, Rafa'a Salameh, and Muhammad Odeh seen in an undated picture released by the IDF on September 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Force)
The IDF releases new footage showing the airstrike that killed Hudhaifa Kahlout — known by the nom de guerre Abu Obeida — Hamas’s military wing spokesman and head of its propaganda apparatus.
Kahlout, killed in a joint IDF-Shin Bet strike last week, had long served as the masked face of Hamas, directing the group’s propaganda and psychological warfare, according to the IDF.
During the war, the IDF says he oversaw the distribution of cameras used to document the October 7 massacre and the release of videos of Israeli hostages.
The army also publishes a newly uncovered image showing Kahlout alongside Hamas’s former military chief Muhammad Deif, Khan Younis Brigade chief Rafa’a Salameh, and intelligence chief Muhammad Odeh — all later killed in separate Israeli strikes — highlighting his senior role within the terror group. Link
South Sudan again denies deals to accept Gazans or third party deportees from the US
South Sudan will not accept Palestinians from Gaza, its government says, telling reporters there was also no deal with Washington to take more third-nation deportees.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he would permit Gazans to emigrate voluntarily, and that his government was talking to a number of potential host countries.
Among them was reportedly South Sudan, which in August welcomed Israel’s deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel, calling it “the highest-level engagement from an Israeli official to South Sudan thus far.”
But the desperately poor country, which is itself struggling with a worrying uptick of violence, has repeatedly denied reports that it would take Palestinians.
“There has never been any question that has been discussed… on the issue of Palestinians being resettled in South Sudan,” Philip Jada Natana, director general for bilateral relations, tells reporters.
In a weekly briefing, foreign ministry spokesperson Apuk Ayuel Mayen also clarifies there was no deal between Washington and Juba over third-country deportees — despite South Sudan accepting eight men in July.
Israel tells Hamas to surrender or see Gaza City leveled, as group says it’s open to deal
Netanyahu dismisses terror organization’s stated willingness to free all hostages in exchange for ending war as ‘more spin,’ reiterates Israel’s demands for permanent ceasefire
Israeli leaders on Wednesday dismissed a statement from Hamas declaring its willingness to free all the hostages in an exchange for ending the war in Gaza, vowing to go ahead with the planned invasion of Gaza City if the Palestinian terror group doesn’t accept Jerusalem’s conditions to permanently halt the fighting.
The statement from Hamas, which said the terrorist organization was still waiting for Israel’s reply to the ceasefire proposal it accepted two weeks ago, came after US President Donald Trump demanded the release of the remaining living captives.
Hamas stressed that it was willing “to enter into a comprehensive deal in which all enemy prisoners held by the resistance will be freed in exchange for an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners held by the occupation.” Hamas refers to the hostages it holds as prisoners.
“This agreement will end the war on the Gaza Strip, result in the withdrawal of all occupation forces from the entire Gaza Strip, open the border crossings to allow the entry of all the Gaza Strip’s necessities and start the process of rebuilding,” Hamas continued.
The terror group emphasized that it was ready to form “an independent national administration of technocrats” to run Gaza.
Israel has said it would only end the war if Hamas releases all hostages in one go and disarms, and if Gaza is demilitarized and a non-Hamas, no-Palestinian Authority governance is established, all of which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated in his response to the Hamas statement.
“This is more spin by Hamas, containing nothing new,” Netanyahu’s office said.
The Prime Minister’s Office said the war can end immediately if five conditions are met — the release of all hostages; the disarmament of Hamas; the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; Israeli security control in Gaza; and “the establishment of an alternative civilian administration that does not indoctrinate for terror, does not dispatch terror, and does not threaten Israel.”
“Only these conditions will prevent Hamas from rearming and repeating the October 7 massacre again and again, as it openly vows to do,” Netanyahu’s office added.
In a similar message, Defense Minister Israel Katz called on Hamas to either accept Israel’s conditions to end the war — including the release of all hostages and disarmament — or see Gaza City “become like Rafah and Beit Hanoun,” accusing the terror group of continuing to “deceive and utter empty words.”
Responding to Netanyahu and Katz, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said that while the government “does not have to accept Hamas’s conditions, it must immediately return to negotiations and try to close a deal.”
“You can’t not even try to return our hostages home,” added Lapid.
Head of The Democrats opposition party Yair Golan issued a more stinging criticism, saying that rather than seeking a deal to free the captives, Netanyahu “is again choosing to forsake the lives of the hostages and soldiers for his own sake.”
‘No choice but military rule’
Meanwhile, Israeli television reported Wednesday that IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is planning to warn the government that there will be no option but to impose military rule over the Gaza Strip if the plans go ahead to conquer Gaza City.
“There will be no choice but to impose military rule on all of Gaza from November,” Channel 12 news quoted Zamir as saying he will tell the government.
Zamir is opposed to the government’s plan to conquer Gaza City and has urged the government to accept the deal to reach a ceasefire that will see the hostages released.
The TV report said Zamir will carry out the orders to capture Gaza City, but is warning the government to prepare for the military and diplomatic consequences.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir surveys Gaza City and reviews operational plans with IDF commanders as the military prepares to advance its offensive in the city, September 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
The government has advanced the takeover plan in recent weeks despite Hamas saying it had agreed to a phased hostage-truce deal almost identical to one Israel had previously approved. In the interim, Jerusalem had officially given up on phased deals, demanding a comprehensive agreement to return all the captives in one go and see Hamas surrender.
The phased deal — which Hamas said it agreed to on August 18 — would see 10 living hostages released and the remains of 18 dead hostages returned, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners and some 1,000 Gazan detainees, and a 60-day ceasefire, during which negotiations would be held for the return of the remaining 20 hostages, of whom 10-12 are believed to be alive, and a permanent end to the war. Link
Sinwar was reportedly found with map in his pocket of the Rafah tunnels he hid in
Israeli TV publishes blood-stained sketch listing code names of the Oct. 7 architect’s apparent hiding places before he was killed last year
A sketch of the Hamas tunnel network under the Tel Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, reportedly found in the pocket of slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar when he was killed. (Screenshot/Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
A drawing outlining a map of Hamas tunnels under part of Rafah was reportedly found in the pocket of Yahya Sinwar, the Palestinian terror group’s chief, when he was killed in the southern Gaza city last year.
The bloodstained, hand-drawn map, published Wednesday by Channel 12 news, shows a grid-like sketch of the tunnel network below the city’s western Tel Sultan neighborhood in southern Gaza. It also lists places where Sinwar apparently hid, along with code names for the different hideouts.
Sinwar, the principal architect of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, evaded Israeli troops for more than a year after the attack.
The Israel Defense Forces said he managed to escape from his hometown of Khan Younis shortly before being captured by the Israeli military in early 2024.
He was killed in mid-October of that year by troops who happened upon him and other Hamas operatives in Rafah, and his identity was verified through DNA testing. The IDF subsequently released footage of his final moments in which he can be seen trying to fight off a drone after fleeing from Israeli forces, before being killed.
The crumpled document published by Channel 12, believed to have been drawn by Sinwar, appeared to display a rudimentary map of the tunnel network in Tel Sultan, where he had hidden before being forced above ground. Several locations on the map have names, including “The Old Camp,” “The Western Camp,” “The First,” and “The Last.”
Drone footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on October 16, 2024, shortly before he was killed. (Courtesy)
The network reported that as the IDF destroyed tunnels in Rafah and Tel Sultan, Sinwar was forced aboveground, leading to his death. Parts of the map had apparent bloodstains.
A screenshot of video released by the IDF on October 19, 2024, shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar carrying a flatscreen television while escaping into a tunnel with his family the night before the Gaza-ruling terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught against Israel. (Screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Destroying Hamas’s extensive Gaza tunnel network has been a prime Israeli objective in the war. The terror group has used the subterranean system, built over the course of years, to hide its leaders and operatives from IDF troops, and to imprison Israeli hostages.
After Sinwar’s death, he was succeeded by his brother Mohammed, who was killed by the IDF this year. The IDF has assassinated numerous senior Hamas officials in Gaza and abroad since October 7, with the terror group now run by a council of leaders.
Coffee and cash: How Hamas pays its civil servants amid the war
Employees are invited for a ‘drink,’ whereupon they receive partial salaries; source in terror group says senior members get paid secretly ‘so as not to be exposed to strikes’ by Israel
One of thousands of public servants in Gaza’s Hamas-run government, Karim, a public works ministry employee, received what seemed like an ordinary message on his phone: an invitation “for a coffee.”
The text gave a time for a meeting near a school sheltering displaced people amid the wreckage and rubble of nearly two years of war between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip, which was triggered on October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian terror group led a devastating invasion of southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
Karim, who, like others interviewed by AFP, asked to use a pseudonym, explained how he went to the meeting in July terrified of a possible Israeli attack, but found “an employee I knew waiting for me.”
He “gave me 1,000 shekels ($298),” the 39-year-old said, adding that that was only part of his pre-war salary of 2,900 shekels.
The war has destroyed public infrastructure and put most Hamas government employees out of work, but testimonies gathered by AFP from civil servants confirm Hamas is still paying some salaries, at least in part and with delays.
Israel has dealt a series of body blows to Hamas and its institutions over the past two years, decimating the terror group that seized total control of Gaza from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority in a deadly 2007 coup.
This picture taken from a position at Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing during an Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory on September 3, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
Residents in Gaza explained they try to avoid being close to people linked to Hamas or its fighters, for fear of the Israeli military locating and targeting them with strikes that often kill or injure those around them.
According to witnesses, the army has repeatedly targeted people sent by Hamas to deliver salaries.
‘Escaped death’
Alaa, a teacher at a public school in Gaza City, last received a salary in June.
The mother of five had received a text message asking her to go to a school sheltering displaced people in northern Gaza.
When she arrived, “the school had just been bombed and the employee in charge of distributing salaries had fled. Thank God I was late, I escaped death.”
She had to return to the area the next day to receive her salary, she said.
The Israeli army regularly carries out strikes on schools, where displaced people shelter, accusing fighters from Hamas and other terror groups of using them as bases and command posts despite the danger such use poses to noncombatants.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 63,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
People inspect damages at a tent encampment that was sheltering displaced people, after it was hit by an Israeli strike, near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on September 4, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Before the war, Hamas’s government employed an estimated 40,000 people, drawing from revenue from customs duties and taxes to run public services.
From 2021 until the start of the war in Gaza in 2023, Qatar pledged $360 million in annual funding to the Palestinian territory, at Israel’s request, which included salaries of civil servants such as doctors and teachers. Doha has denied providing financial aid to Hamas.
Hamas officials had claimed, before the war in Gaza, to have received financial support from Iran, though the Islamic Republic has never confirmed providing funds.
According to an official familiar with the matter in Gaza who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, Hamas obtained cash mainly through smuggling via tunnels dug near the border or by sea, despite Israel’s blockade.
In February 2024, the Israeli army released videos of safes and bags containing large sums of money (in shekels, US dollars and Jordanian dinars) that it said it had discovered in tunnels under Gaza, along with documents it claimed proved cash transfers from Iran to Hamas.
Jamil, 43, an accountant at a government institution, told AFP Hamas “stored hundreds of millions of dollars in tunnels or safe places for difficult times such as war,” without providing further details.
Israel has also long claimed that significant portions of the humanitarian aid entering Gaza were diverted by the terror group and sold on the black market for inflated prices or handed to loyalists.
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza move along the border with Gaza Strip in southern Israel, August 13, 2025. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
The remarks about Hamas payments matched those in a similar previous report by the BBC.
‘Mafia’
The Israeli military has hit Hamas’s infrastructure and targeted financial leaders like Ismail Barhoum, who was killed in March in an Israeli strike.
Israel has “bombed Hamas-owned banks, places where money was stored, and assassinated financial system officials, but that didn’t stop the process,” he said.
According to a Hamas source who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, senior officials receive their salaries in secret, where they live, in displacement camps or schools turned shelters, “so as not to be exposed to strikes,” seemingly confirming Israel’s claim that Hamas uses the civilian population as human shields.
Jamil explained that the salary payment process is “very complex,” changing according to the security situation.
Hamas “is keen to pay part of the salaries as soon as the funds are available,” he added.
But officials interviewed by AFP complain their wages are not enough to meet basic needs, in a territory where the UN declared famine last month.
Others complained that only civil servants who are members of Hamas get paid.
Massoud, an officer in the Hamas police force, said he recently received a message on his wife’s phone inviting him to “have tea.”
His wife was pleasantly surprised, grateful that his salary had arrived.
But the money “is not enough to eat, and we are hungry,” he told AFP.
“We’re with the resistance,” he said of Hamas, but added the terror group should have been “prepared for such hellish times.”
Abdallah, 38, a teacher, last received his salary (950 shekels) in July, stretching it, like most Gazans who still manage an income, to feed 20 extended family members after his three brothers were killed near aid distribution sites.
“I said goodbye to my wife and children without telling them I was going to get my salary.”
This way of being paid is “painful, it’s like you’re working for the mafia.” Link
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a photo cleared for publication on September 5, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
The IDF announces that troops working with the Shin Bet security agency killed Nur al-Din Dabbaghsh earlier this week, a Hamas operative who managed finances for the group’s military arm. Dabbaghsh was accused of collecting and transferring tens of millions of dollars to the terror group during the war, money that Israel says funded weapons and operations, and helped sustain the organization’s fighting capabilities.
The military also says its forces continue to strike Hamas infrastructure and operatives across the Gaza Strip, targeting sites both above and below ground while intensifying pressure on Hamas’ military wing.
In northern Gaza, forces from the 99th Division report destroying anti-tank missile launch sites, a weapons storage facility, and additional infrastructure, while soldiers from the Nahal Brigade killed several Hamas operatives in clashes nearby.
Elsewhere, Givati Brigade troops and the 401st Armored Brigade, operating under 162nd Division, continue advancing in the Jabalia area and elsewhere on the outskirts of Gaza City, where they have eliminated terrorists, dismantled explosives, and destroyed further Hamas positions.
Palestinian media reports that 13 Palestinians were injured in a settler attack last night in the South Hebron Hills, in the southern West Bank.
According to the reports, several settlers entered the village of Khallet al-Daba and assaulted residents, some of them with pepper spray.
Thirteen residents were reportedly injured, including an infant.
Some suffered light injuries from the pepper spray, while three were more seriously hurt.
There is no response from the IDF or the police. link13 Palestinians injured by settler terrorists last night and there is no response from the IDF or the police, as though that should surprise anyone. The police have instructions not to show up when called to any attack by these settler terrorists against Palestinians. And, if by chance, they do show up or were in the area of the attack, they are not to arrest any settlers. They are only to arrest Palestinians who are the victims of these terrorists. These instructions are from the criminal minister in charge of the police. The police know that they will receive full back up from this criminal minister and if they go the extra steps of arresting or abusing the Palestinians, they will be put on the good list of the minister. It is well known in the Police that only those who curry the minister's favor and act according to his criminal behavior of abusing Palestinians and anyone who protests against the government, will be eligible for promotions. This is not speculation, it is fact that has been reported by senior officers in the Police. With behavior and actions like this in the police, there should be no surprise that terror by settlers against Palestinians is growing exponentially. The settler terrorists are on a mission: to make the lives of the Palestinians so miserable that they will leave their lands so the settlers can take them over easily. The terrorists attack the Palestinians physically injuring and even killing them, steal their property and livestock, set their cars, homes and factories on fire, uproot olive trees and destroy other agriculture, and act with total impunity and immunity. All of these actions are international war crimes. They are considered war crimes because the West Bank is occupied territory and managed by the military, except the settlers who live under full Israeli law which favors them, while the military law is totally biased against the Palestinians. The police who ignore this terrorism are enablers of it and are therefore as culpable of the crimes as the terrorists themselves. And the criminal minister is at the head of the terror as the enabler, encourager and overseer.
The United States has imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights groups that asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel over allegations of genocide in Gaza, according to a notice posted to the US Treasury Department’s website.
The three groups — Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Ramallah-based Al-Haq — were listed under what the Treasury Department says are International Criminal Court-related designations.
The groups asked the ICC in November 2023 to investigate Israeli air strikes on densely populated civilian areas of Gaza, the siege of the territory and displacement of the population. A year later, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense chief, Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas leaders, for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has imposed sanctions on ICC judges as well as its chief prosecutor over the Israeli arrest warrants and a past decision to open a case into alleged war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan. linkOnce again, the hand of Netanyahu is in US Foreign relations and politics. Netanyahu already as one arrest warrant out for him by the ICC and should have a list of warrants the length of his arm for all of his war crimes and crimes against the people of Israel. It is truly amazing that all three of the stated groups that the US is placing sanctions on them, are all human rights groups. The irony and hypocrisy of this action are mind boggling. The US and Israel are calling for actions against human rights organizations that are calling for justice for human rights. Similar actions are occurring in Israel. One of the sanctions that the corrupt Israeli government is doing is putting an 80% tax on all donations that come from abroad to what they determine to be left wing and human rights organizations registered in Israel. This, of course doesn't impact any right wing or Haredi organizations who bring in much greater amounts of money from abroad because these groups and the political parties behind them are part of the government.
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๐️Day 443 that 100 of our hostages in Hamas captivity **There is nothing more important than getting them home! NOTHING!** “I’ve never met them, But I miss them. I’ve never met them, but I think of them every second. I’ve never met them, but they are my family. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!” We’re waiting for you, all of you. A deal is the only way to bring all the hostages home- the murdered for burial and the living for rehabilitation. #BringThemHomeNow #TurnTheHorrorIntoHope There is no victory until all of the hostages are home! ืืื ื ืฆืืื ืขื ืฉืื ืืืืืคืื ืืืืช
๐️Day 455 that 100 of our hostages in Hamas captivity **There is nothing more important than getting them home! NOTHING!** “I’ve never met them, But I miss them. I’ve never met them, but I think of them every second. I’ve never met them, but they are my family. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!” We’re waiting for you, all of you. A deal is the only way to bring all the hostages home- the murdered for burial and the living for rehabilitation. #BringThemHomeNow #TurnTheHorrorIntoHope There is no victory until all of the hostages are home! ืืื ื ืฆืืื ืขื ืฉืื ืืืืืคืื ืืืืช
๐️Day 484 that 79 of our hostages in Hamas captivity **There is nothing more important than getting them home! NOTHING!** “I’ve never met them, But I miss them. I’ve never met them, but I think of them every second. I’ve never met them, but they are my family. BRING THEM HOME NOW!!!” We’re waiting for you, all of you. A deal is the only way to bring all the hostages home- the murdered for burial and the living for rehabilitation. #BringThemHomeNow #TurnTheHorrorIntoHope There is no victory until all of the hostages are home! ืืื ื ืฆืืื ืขื ืฉืื ืืืืืคืื ืืืืช
Bishara Bahbah gives an interview on Al Ghad TV on June 24, 2025. (Screenshot/ Facebook)
A displaced Palestinian woman bathes her daughter at the Bureij camp for displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip on September 3, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
From left to right, Hamas leaders Muhammad Deif, Hudhaifa Kahlout, Rafa'a Salameh, and Muhammad Odeh seen in an undated picture released by the IDF on September 4, 2025. (Israel Defense Force)
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir surveys Gaza City and reviews operational plans with IDF commanders as the military prepares to advance its offensive in the city, September 3, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
A sketch of the Hamas tunnel network under the Tel Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, reportedly found in the pocket of slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar when he was killed. (Screenshot/Channel 12, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Drone footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on October 16, 2024, shortly before he was killed. (Courtesy)
A screenshot of video released by the IDF on October 19, 2024, shows Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar carrying a flatscreen television while escaping into a tunnel with his family the night before the Gaza-ruling terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught against Israel. (Screen capture; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
This picture taken from a position at Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing during an Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory on September 3, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
People inspect damages at a tent encampment that was sheltering displaced people, after it was hit by an Israeli strike, near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on September 4, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza move along the border with Gaza Strip in southern Israel, August 13, 2025. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
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