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'Sorry you came back in stages': Gaza hostage Ofir Tzarfati laid to rest for third time

Haaretz - 17:05 Oct 31, 2025

Ofir was buried shortly after his body was retrieved from Gaza in late 2023, and months later another ceremony took place after further remains were found. This week, his family once again found themselves at his grave

Tags: Gaza
Can international intervention actually solve Gaza?

Haaretz - 16:32 Oct 31, 2025

Although everyone agrees that international engagement in the form of soldiers on the ground is an essential part in moving forward from the Gaza war, almost no one is willing to commit to anything beyond vague statements

Tags: Gaza
The fallout from the Gaza detainee abuse leak scandal will not end with the IDF's legal chief

Haaretz - 16:01 Oct 31, 2025

New evidence suggests senior legal officers were involved in both the leak of violent footage from Israel's Sde Teiman detention facility and its alleged cover-up, which were reportedly coordinated in advance through a WhatsApp group that included senior officers from the IDF's legal corps

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IDF probe into Sde Teiman video leak may disrupt abuse investigation, legal sources say

Haaretz - 14:20 Oct 31, 2025

Legal sources told Haaretz that if senior officials in the Military Advocate General's office are found to have deliberately leaked the recording, it could impact the trial of the soldiers accused of abuse
Autistic Israeli teen arrested for allegedly making explosives, contacting Hamas and ISIS

Haaretz - 12:24 Oct 31, 2025

According to police, the 14-year-old reached out to Hamas and ISIS and photographed security sites in Israel for them. The boy has been held as a security detainee for over two weeks in harsh conditions, and is suspected of membership in a terrorist organization and conspiracy

Tags: Hamas ISIS
Freed Gaza hostage says he was held in mice-infested room, made to eat rice with worms

Haaretz - 11:48 Oct 31, 2025

Former hostage Segev Kalfon told an Israeli news outlet he considered escaping during captivity: 'What's preferable – the torture and starvation or a 50 percent chance of survival?' He added that he and two other captives were moved to underground tunnels after the June 2024 IDF operation that rescued Noa Argamani and three other hostages
Palestinian teenager killed by IDF fire in West Bank, Health Ministry says

Haaretz - 10:28 Oct 31, 2025

Eyewitnesses told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Yamin Samed Hamed was seriously wounded but that soldiers prevented an ambulance from reaching him. He was left on the ground and only later allowed medical treatment. He was pronounced dead at the hospital

Tags: Palestinian
IDF's legal chief resigns over suspected involvement in Gaza detainee abuse video leak

Haaretz - 09:44 Oct 31, 2025

In a statement Friday morning, Defense Minister Israel Katz cited the 'severity of the suspicions' against Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi in the Sde Teiman affair, saying she won't be reinstated. Shortly after, the legal chief met with the army's chief of staff and resigned. Legal sources say she is expected to be questioned under caution on a series of offenses, including obstructing justice
Classified U.S. review reportedly finds consistent Israeli human rights breaches against Palestinians in Gaza

Haaretz - 08:20 Oct 31, 2025

Compiled days before the Israel-Hamas cease-fire began earlier this month, the classified U.S. report casts doubt on whether Israel will be held accountable, citing a 'large backlog of incidents' and a review process described as biased in favor of the IDF
Ex-Israel Police officer with PTSD self-immolates outside Defense Ministry rehabilitation official's home

Haaretz - 07:20 Oct 31, 2025

The officer, a man in his 40s, has long been recognized within the Defense Ministry's rehabilitation department as struggling with both physical and mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress. The traumatic incident that triggered his condition occurred roughly a decade ago

Tags: Defense Ministry
How the Gaza detainee abuse footage leak fuels the Israeli right's war on the 'deep state'

Haaretz - 04:02 Oct 31, 2025

Recent headlines in Israel reveal how the investigation into the leaked video of a Palestinian detainee being allegedly abused at the Sde Teiman detention facility could set off a chain reaction, while the IDF's extensive focus on internal investigations may inadvertently advance Netanyahu's interests
Copy, paste, destroy: Netanyahu is doing to Israel's defense establishment what he did to its judiciary

Haaretz - 04:02 Oct 31, 2025

As part of his 'reunification and healing' vision, the prime minister is applying the judicial-overhaul model to the defense establishment ■ Tally Gotliv is a hand grenade that Netanyahu has planted in the security holy of holies, while Yair Netanyahu is just a stink bomb ■ From the Knesset podium, Simcha Rothman desecrates the memory of one of Israel's greatest political scientists

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IDF Oct. 7 probe lauds Ein Habesor security squad as residents slam army's failure to protect community

Haaretz - 04:01 Oct 31, 2025

Members of the emergency response team and other residents also extricated, treated and evacuated the wounded that day, 'independently and in a praiseworthy manner,' the report said
Hamas is exploiting the cease-fire troubles to strengthen in Gaza before Trump's patience wears thin

Haaretz - 04:01 Oct 31, 2025

Trump maintains that the Gaza cease-fire will hold, but that doesn't mean Hamas or Israel want it to. Despite the recent clashes, the slow return of hostages' bodies and Hamas provocations, there is no sign that Washington will let Netanyahu batter Hamas

Tags: Gaza Hamas
Red Cross hands over three bodies from Gaza to Israel

Haaretz - 03:14 Oct 31, 2025
'I named my dog Pride of Israel. She won a world championship'

Haaretz - 23:10 Oct 30, 2025

This week at Ben-Gurion Airport: a woman whose dogs have retired after a stellar run on the show circuit, and a couple who refused to let air raid sirens spoil their wedding celebration
Lishay Miran-Lavi recounts the father-daughter reunion after husband's two-year captivity

Haaretz - 22:26 Oct 30, 2025

Two weeks after Omri Miran returned from captivity, his wife Lishay tells Haaretz about the challenges they both face – emphasizing that the struggle and recovery are far from over: 'I haven't processed what I experienced as a woman and as a mother on Oct 7'
Israel cannot allow terrorists to set its moral standards

Haaretz - 22:20 Oct 30, 2025
Accused of genocide, internationally shunned: What can Israel learn from the Serbian case?

Haaretz - 22:18 Oct 30, 2025

Twenty-five years ago, in the aftermath of a bloody war, Serbia faced a world that condemned it for war crimes. In conversations with Haaretz, Serbian experts reflect on what it takes for a society to truly move forward – and caution against a battle of narratives in which all sides stand to lose

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How Netanyahu and Israel's defense minister aided and abetted Haredi draft dodgers

Haaretz - 21:52 Oct 30, 2025

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