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IDF reservist killed by sniper fire in Gaza City before Gaza deal agreement

Sgt. First Class (res.) Michael Mordechai Nachmani, was killed in battle while fighting in the Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Friday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

Trump to visit Israel on Monday, promised mediators fighting won’t resume

US President Donald Trump will visit Israel on Monday ahead of the release of the remaining live hostages held in Gaza to speak before the Knesset and meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

Clock for hostage release starts ticking, as Israel approves first stage of deal

The Israeli government voted, after more than six hours of debate, to approve the first stage of a U.S.-brokered plan to end the war in Gaza and return the hostages, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.
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Gaza ceasefire starts as IDF completes partial withdrawal; Hamas has 72 hours to return hostages

The Israel Defense Forces completed a withdrawal to agreed-upon deployment lines in the Gaza Strip on Friday at noon, officially beginning a ceasefire and a 72-hour countdown during which Hamas is to release the hostages it is holding under the first phase of the US-brokered deal.

Read more: The Times of Israel

How will the newly agreed-upon Gaza deal take shape over coming days? – explainer

Following the announcement that Israel and Hamas finalized a deal to end the war in Gaza and return the hostages home, numerous steps remain in implementing the phased agreement.

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Israel readies for brief Trump visit in coming days after signing of Gaza deal

Israel began preparations on Thursday for US President Donald Trump’s expected visit next week, following the announcement that Israel and Hamas have signed off on the “first phase” of his plan to secure the release of all hostages and ultimately end the Gaza war.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Elation in Hostages Square: ‘After two years, we can finally breathe’

Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square, which since Oct. 7, 2023, has stood as a symbol of pain, hope and perseverance, turned joyous overnight as tears of despair were replaced by those of relief and happiness.
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Preparations underway in Israel for return of hostages

With the looming release of 20 living hostages from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military’s preparations for their arrival are on a larger scale than in previous ceasefires.

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Trump announces Israel-Hamas deal

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the first phase of an agreement aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hamas.

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Rubio reaffirms ‘unwavering’ support for Israel, slams surge in Jew-hatred

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday marked the second anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, reaffirming the Trump administration’s “unwavering” support for Israel’s right to defend itself and denouncing the “troubling” rise in antisemitism worldwide.

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In first, three shipwrecks from biblical times uncovered off the coast of Israel

The remains of three shipwrecks and their cargoes from the Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) have been retrieved in the ancient harbor of Dor, on the Carmel Coast in northern Israel, according to an academic paper recently published by the prestigious journal Antiquity. The discovery marks the first time shipwrecks from those times have been uncovered in…

Video of Nepali hostage Bipin Joshi to be released Wednesday evening, family confirms

A video has obtained by Israeli intelligence units of Nepali captive Bipin Joshi and will be released Wednesday evening, according to an announcement from the Hostage Family Forum earlier Wednesday.

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Greta uses Israeli hostage pic in Palestinian prisoner post

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has drawn criticism for posting a picture of Israeli hostage Evyatar David in a social media post about the “suffering of Palestinian prisoners.”

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Two years after Oct. 7, Netanyahu vows Israel will prevail

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday marked two years since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre, pledging that Israel “will prevail” and reaffirming his commitment to achieving all the war’s objectives—the recovery of the hostages, the elimination of Hamas in Gaza and ensuring that the Strip will never again pose a threat to the Jewish…

Gazan terrorists fire rocket at Israel on Sukkot

Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday fired a rocket toward southern Israel on the second anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, which this year coincides with the Sukkot holiday.

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Anti-Israel groups hold Oct. 7 rallies in major cities, campuses in U.S., Canada, Australia

Anti-Israel extremists planned to stage rallies across major cities and university campuses on the second anniversary of the October 7 massacre, expressing their solidarity with Palestinian terrorism.

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1,152 Israeli security forces have fallen since Oct. 7, data show

More than 1,150 Israeli soldiers and security personnel have been killed, leaving more than 6,500 people bereaved since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on the western Negev, according to data released on Monday by Israel’s Defense Ministry, National Insurance Institute and the Emotional First Aid (ERAN) organization.

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Heroism amid chaos: Inside the IDF’s Urim base two years after Oct. 7

Traveling from Tel Aviv to Ofakim—about 100 kilometers south—and then another 15 kilometers by taxi along Route 241 and the infamous Route 232, we reached the Home Front Command base near Kibbutz Urim, where we met War Room Commander Capt. Gaya Shimsilshvili.

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