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Israel Police chief seeks to promote commander to top job despite 80% spike in homicide rate

Haaretz - 12:00 Aug 10, 2025

Since Yair Hetzroni took office in September 2024, almost twice as many people have been murdered in his district compared to the same period last year. Despite criticism from other police units and the district, the Israel Police chief wants to promote him to deputy commissioner

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Israeli activists disrupt live Big Brother TV broadcast to demand Gaza cease-fire

Haaretz - 10:35 Aug 10, 2025

Members of the Jewish-Arab protest movement Standing Together jumped on stage, shouting anti-war slogans during a live voting segment of the popular reality TV show. Though they were forcibly removed from the stage, they said that the show's producers, and even family members of contestants, were supportive of their message
Gaza health ministry says five Palestinians died of hunger in past day, including two children

Haaretz - 10:02 Aug 10, 2025

According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, this brings the total death toll in Gaza from hunger or malnutrition since the beginning of the war to 217, including 100 children

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Families of hostages, fallen IDF soldiers call for general strike against Gaza occupation plan

Haaretz - 09:40 Aug 10, 2025

Hostage relatives called on heads of large companies and other organizations central to Israel's economy to participate in the strike. Hostage mother Vicky Cohen said that the Israeli cabinet's decision to occupy Gaza 'sends a clear and direct message' that the government is 'giving up on the hostages'

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Majority in Germany favors recognizing Palestinian state, poll finds

Haaretz - 08:29 Aug 10, 2025

A survey by the Forsa Institute conducted in July showed that slightly over half of Germans polled favored recognition of a Palestinian state, with support particularly high among left-wing party supporters

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Israel's Foreign Ministry cautions Israelis in Greece to avoid pro-Palestinian protests ahead of nationwide 'Day of Rage'

Haaretz - 08:22 Aug 10, 2025

The Israeli Foreign Ministry recommended Israelis living in and traveling to Greece stay away from protests, avoid public debates, and take other measures to hide their nationality in anticipation of pro-Palestinian protests across the country

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Netanyahu says he and Trump discussed Israel's plan to take over central Gaza

Haaretz - 03:25 Aug 10, 2025
Military rule in Gaza won't free hostages, and could make the IDF a prime terror target

Haaretz - 03:12 Aug 10, 2025

Israel's security cabinet approved plans to occupy Gaza, a move that shifts focus from freeing hostages to toppling Hamas. The occupation would entail legal and humanitarian responsibilities for over two million Gazans, requiring Israel to rebuild civilian infrastructure and manage daily needs, a task fraught with challenges and risks of inciting future terrorism

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Netanyahu hoped the decision to occupy Gaza would buy him time, but the pressure is on, at home and abroad

Haaretz - 21:58 Aug 09, 2025

It is too soon to say if the muscle flexed by far-right minister Bezalel Smotrich will lead to his resignation, or if the rising global pressure will lead to a deal. The takeover of Gaza City is two months away – and mediators may use that time to reach a cease-fire
The only way out of Netanyahu's war in Gaza is rebellion and refusal

Haaretz - 21:19 Aug 09, 2025

Netanyahu realized that collaboration with the settler right would give him a forever war and limitless inventory of victims. Military camps, patrols and raids would yield him dead and wounded to feed the fire of vengeance
Israel's government is setting up the IDF for failure

Haaretz - 20:48 Aug 09, 2025

Government supporters are wrong in believing that the IDF is omnipotent and can both conquer Gaza and return the hostages if it wants to
Germany's arms embargo on Israel isn't a betrayal, it's a moral reckoning

Haaretz - 20:21 Aug 09, 2025
Germany's arms embargo on Israel isn't betrayl, its a moral reckoning

Haaretz - 20:21 Aug 09, 2025
Report: Mediators conducting intensive talks with Israel, Hamas to reach Gaza truce

Haaretz - 19:33 Aug 09, 2025

Asharq News cited sources saying that the U.S., Qatar and Egypt are discussing the details of a new comprehensive proposal between them before presenting it to both sides. The mediators' goal: To reach a deal before an Israeli invasion into Gaza City
Despite what Netanyahu wants you to think, an Israeli conquest of Gaza remains far off

Haaretz - 18:01 Aug 09, 2025

If Netanyahu actually wants to occupy Gaza, he must deal with two main difficulties to try to achieve it: The U.S. demand to flood the area with humanitarian aid and calling up IDF reserves while the number of reservists reporting for duty is in free fall

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U.K. police arrest over 365 at protest for banned Palestine Action group

Haaretz - 17:13 Aug 09, 2025

Backers of Palestine Action have staged a series of protests across the U.K. since early July, when Parliament outlawed the group and prohibited anyone from publicly showing support for it

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Fourteen-year-old Palestinian killed in central Gaza after air-dropped aid box fell on him

Haaretz - 17:03 Aug 09, 2025

The air-dropping campaign has been sharply criticized by international and Palestinian groups, who claim the campaign is dangerous and ineffective compared to transport by land, after it claimed the lives of four people in recent days
Tens of thousands of Israelis call for hostage deal amid Netanyahu's Gaza takeover plan

Haaretz - 15:52 Aug 09, 2025

Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan is held in captivity, addressed Netanyahu, saying, 'If you conquer parts of the Gaza Strip and hostages are murdered, we will haunt you'
'Either they end the war or they kill us': Gaza City residents fear Israel's planned takeover

Haaretz - 15:44 Aug 09, 2025

Municipal officials told Haaretz that 70-80 percent of Gaza City is destroyed, yet it houses 1.2 million people. 'There are no vehicles to take people, no places to go, no tents and no humanitarian assistance from international organizations,' a local said

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Hostage families call to shut down Israeli economy in protest of Gaza takeover plan

Haaretz - 15:09 Aug 09, 2025

Relatives of Israelis held hostage in Gaza urged Israelis and business leaders to 'halt everything' and warned that silence is 'deadly' as the security cabinet moves to take control of Gaza City

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