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Gazan anti-war protester holds a sign in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, March 25, 2025. (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law, via The Times of Israel)
March 26, 2025, 10:54 am
Hundreds in Gaza join rare protests against Hamas rule, call for an end to the war
Chanting "Hamas out" and "We want to eat," Palestinians in at least three locations in the Strip gather to voice anger at the terror group
By Nurit Yohanan
Matan Zangauker (right) and Ilana Gritzewsky were abducted from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home by Hamas on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
March 25, 2025, 1:35 pm
Released hostage Ilana Gritzewsky says captors sexually assaulted her
31-year-old, whose partner Matan Zangauker is still captive, tells NYT she was groped during abduction, passed out and woke up half-naked in Gaza with 7 gunmen standing over her
By ToI Staff
Israeli forces operating in northern Gaza on March 20, 2025. (Credit: IDF)
March 20, 2025, 9:04 am
IDF launches ground offensive in northern Gaza
The military continues to attack Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets across the Strip as the renewed combat entered its third day.
By Joshua Marks
Destruction at Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Photo by Oren Cohen.Destruction at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Photo by Oren Cohen)
March 19, 2025, 10:11 am
‘Incontrovertible proof’: UK report details Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7
Three-fourths of those murdered were civilians, with the ages ranging from a 14-hour-old Bedouin Israeli to a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor
By Joshua Marks
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a televised address about Israel's decision to resume airstrikes against Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza, March 18, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)
March 18, 2025, 3:36 pm
Netanyahu says ‘from now on’ hostage talks ‘will be conducted only under fire’
According to Netanyahu, the terror group turned down all proposals to release more of the 59 hostages still held in Gaza.
By Lazar Berman
Gaza (Photo by Catholic Church England and Wales, courtesy of flickr.com)
March 17, 2025, 9:53 pm
PM: IDF launching strikes throughout Gaza after Hamas refused repeated hostage deal offers
Israel updated the Trump administration in advance about IDF strikes in Gaza
By Jacob Magid
22 hostages are presumed to be alive and the status of two is uncertain: Top row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Edan Alexander, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi, Rom Braslavski, Ziv Berman, Gali Berman. Third row, from left: Omri Miran, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Bottom row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Pinta Nattapong. (Hostages Families Forum)
March 16, 2025, 6:03 pm
Netanyahu OKs talks based on US proposal to free 11 living hostages
The Witkoff plan also calls for the release of half of the deceased captives held by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.
By Joshua Marks
The family of Edan Alexander, an American held captive in Gaza, protests for his release in December 2024 in New York City. (Alon Kaplun)
March 14, 2025, 9:36 am
Hamas says it will release Edan Alexander and bodies of 4 dual-national hostages
There are four hostages among 35 known to be dead who held American citizenship.
By Philissa Cramer
Released hostage Eli Sharabi meets with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 5, 2025. (White House/X)
March 6, 2025, 1:37 pm
US talks with Hamas said to hit snag after media leak
Negotiations largely focused on securing release of hostages with American citizenship, but US has also reportedly proposed 60-day ceasefire in exchange for release of 10 hostages
By Jacob Magid
Yael Alexander, mother of hostage Edan Alexander, speaks to The Times of Israel on Feb. 23, 2025 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 5, 2025, 2:03 pm
In 1st, US holding secret direct talks with Hamas to free American hostages, end war
Trump’s envoy talking directly to terror group in Qatar, despite US’s designation of Hamas as terror group; US consulted Israel on idea, but not all aspects of talks
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Shlomo Mantzur (Photo courtesy of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
March 4, 2025, 2:16 pm
Murdered hostage Shlomo Mantzur laid to rest
The kibbutz described his death as a profound loss, calling him the “beating heart of Kissufim.”
By By JNS Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF chief Herzi Halevi (left), Defense Minister Israel Katz (second from right) and IAF chief of staff Omer Tischler (right) in the military headquarters in Tel Aviv on December 26, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
March 2, 2025, 8:37 am
Israel endorses new US plan for half of hostages to be released now, ceasefire maintained
As phase 1 period ends, PM’s office backs what it says is Witkoff proposal for permanent ceasefire and all hostages freed by end of Passover; Hamas: Israel reneging on deal
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Kfir Bibas and his mother Shiri Bibas, who were abducted to Gaza by Hamas terrorists, along with Kfir’s brother Ariel and father Yarden, from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy via The Times of Israel)
February 28, 2025, 10:02 am
Eyes wide open
On a day that has become so perverted and propagandized, the Bibas family shines as a neon-orange marquee of the impossible to deny horror that took place.
By Sarah Kendis
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) speaks to reporters at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on June 27, 2024. (Photo by Alex Traiman)
February 27, 2025, 9:53 pm
Being senator ‘small’ compared to courage of hostages, IDF, families, Fetterman says
Dan Senor, who interviewed the senator on his Call Me Back podcast, told JNS that Fetterman “is a deeply empathetic person.”
By JNS Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with members of the General Staff Forum at the IDF HQ in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 27, 2025, 12:53 pm
Before Oct. 7, IDF probe shows, Hamas duped Israel into thinking it did not pose a major threat
Military’s perceptions of terror group led it to believe tunnel capabilities had been degraded, Hamas was not interested in major war and border fence would thwart any attack
By Emanuel Fabian
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