Access News Service: Fwd: Freed hostage: There are no innocent Gazans * ’Genocide’: S Africa takes Israel to ICJ * US students tour Israel; cite violent antismitism on campus *The rush to buy guns

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

Freed hostage Mia Schem: 'I experienced hell. There are no innocent civilians in Gaza'

By Amy Spiro and Michael Horovitz

French-Israeli says she was instructed on what to say in videos; was held by a family that played mind games, withheld food, taunted her; man who operated on her arm told her 'You're not going home alive'

Live updates

LIVE: IDF strikes in Lebanon after Hezbollah rocket fire, reportedly targets Aleppo airport

By Jacob Magid

Army says forces eliminated dozens of gunmen in Gaza City, destroyed infrastructure * Gaza ground op toll at 168 * Israeli wounded in car-ramming at military post near Hebron

'Blood libel': Israel slams South Africa for filing ICJ genocide motion over Gaza war

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Pretoria bids for an order declaring Israel in breach of 1948 Genocide Convention; Jerusalem accuses South Africa of 'collaborating with terror group' that seeks Israel's destruction

Argentine President Milei expresses solidarity with Israel at Jewish sports event

By Juan Melamed

Inside Story

US students touring Israel: Campus antisemitism is palpable, violent — and inescapable

By Canaan Lidor

Jews from top-tier American universities describe their experiences with hatred unleashed by the war with Hamas and its galvanizing effect on their communities

'This was not about freeing Palestine': Former Miss Iraq tours decimated southern towns

By ToI Staff

Running for US Congress, Sarah Idan, whose Iraqi citizenship was revoked in 2019 after she backed Israel at the UN, says she plans to be an 'anti-squad' Democrat

IDF says it carried out strikes in Syria after two rockets fired at Golan Heights

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli targeting of Syrian sites comes less than two days after it struck area around Damascus airport and four days after IDF reportedly killed IRGC general

IDF repeatedly strikes south Lebanon after several rounds of Hezbollah rockets

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Top Ops

Julie Fishman Rayman

The Jewish community's first line of defense

US Law enforcement must rebuild trust by facing the menace of antisemitism and cultivating relationships with Jewish communities

Henry Greenspan

Sleeping with Kafka

There is nothing I can do. It doesn't matter what sin I committed. Or didn't. It has been decided. I have to leave.

US bypasses congressional review for month's second fast-tracked arms sale to Israel

By Jacob Magid and Agencies

Move suggests that growing discomfort in Washington with Israel's prosecution of war not yet influencing its near-daily supply of weapons used by the IDF in Gaza

PM said to bar Mossad and Shin Bet heads from an operational meeting with Gallant

By ToI Staff

Israeli wounded in car-ramming at military post near Hebron; attacker 'neutralized'

By Emanuel Fabian

Injured man fully conscious, taken to hospital for treatment; attack takes place near site of similar assault Friday, where 5 soldiers were hurt

Israeli forces push deeper into central and southern Gaza amid airstrikes

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian residents report heavy air and artillery fire; IDF says it killed dozens of terror operatives in strikes and gunfights, raided Hamas intelligence HQ in Khan Younis

IDF: Troops raze Gaza City hideout belonging to Sinwar, large tunnel system below it

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israel hoping to push UNRWA out of Gaza post-war — report

By ToI Staff

Inside story

Shocked by Oct. 7 failures, Israelis rush to buy guns, with government encouragement

By Mati Wagner

In the months since the Hamas massacre, there were 6 times as many license requests for handguns as in all of 2022, causing some to worry that untrained people will soon wield them

Hamas said to 'agree in principle' to resume talks with Israel on hostage deal

By ToI Staff

Hebrew media reports pile up about terror group retreating from permanent ceasefire demand, but Hamas official says Israel leaking false information to fend off domestic pressure

Senior Hamas delegation set to arrive in Cairo for Egypt-backed ceasefire talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Those We Have Lost

Civilians and soldiers who have fallen since Oct. 7

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9-year-old boy and his 20-year-old uncle shot dead in Lod

By ToI Staff

Third person moderately wounded as shooting brings total number of Arab Israelis slain in violent crime so far in 2023 to 232

IDF had no plan for responding to a Hamas attack of October 7's magnitude – NY Times

By ToI Staff

Paper's investigation focuses on the Israeli military's disorganized, lackluster response to the deadly Hamas murderous invasion as it was unfolding

The hostages and victims whose fate is still unknown

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Maine sect. of state who blocked Trump from ballot is past head of Holocaust center

By Andrew Lapin

Shenna Bellows has taken Trump off primary ballot – the second state, after Colorado, to rule the former president ineligible – based on 14th Amendment's Insurrection Clause