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New York Times
13 hours ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Israel's Looming Plans for Gaza City, and a Surge in Stalking in Women's Sports
Hosted by Tracy Mumford Produced by Will Jarvis and Ian Stewart Edited by Ian StewartJessica Metzger and Tracy Mumford Featuring Jonah E. Bromwich 'We Can't Take It Anymore': Gazans Fear Looming Israeli Operation, by Adam Rasgon and Iyad Abuheweila With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry, by Lara Jakes In Pursuing Trump Rival, Weaponization Czar Sidesteps Justice Dept. Norms, by Jonah E. Bromwich, Glenn Thrush, Alan Feuer and Michael S. Schmidt Amid Threats From Trump, Adam Schiff Forms Legal Defense Fund, by Shane Goldmacher Stalking Has Become an Unsettling Part of Sports Landscape, by Carson Kessler and Nathan Fenno Why Magic, Dragons and Explicit Sex Are in Bookstores Everywhere, by Alexandra Alter Tune in, and tell us what you think at theheadlines@ For corrections, email nytnews@ For more audio journalism and storytelling, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter.
Bloomberg
11-08-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Israel's Netanyahu Defends Gaza Plan
00:00 Talk us through the details then of this planned Israeli operation in Gaza, what it would involve and why the push back? Good morning. Yes, this plan that was authorized in the early hours of Friday doesn't appear close to implementation. For that, we would expect to see the mobilization of potentially tens of thousands of troops as reinforcements. Nonetheless, it set off a surge of condemnation over the weekend, both internationally and domestically, with Israelis, both to Netanyahu's right and left saying they're unhappy with it. Netanyahu yesterday briefed both the foreign press and the Israeli press separately in what seemed to be an attempt to defend this plan against the criticism. The plan would see Israel going into the around 25 to 30% of the Gaza Strip. That has yet to fall under full military control. Part of the reason for that is that Israel believes that this is where those 50 hostages yet to be recovered from Gaza are being held and previously didn't want to hurt them or didn't want to risk harm befalling them. Now it says it's willing to go in there, starting with Gaza City, the de facto capital of that Palestinian territory. So far-right coalition parties in his call in his government say it's not enough. They want a full sweep. They want they want promises that the entire Gaza Strip will be taken over, perhaps annexed eventually, whereas there are those, especially relatives of the hostages who think this is a needless endangering of the hostage and needless protecting of a war that has lost popular support within Israel. And then in terms of the foreign condemnation of Israel, we're hearing growing calls from countries like Australia potentially looking to recognize a Palestinian state alongside the UK, which is making moves to do that potentially as soon as September. This at a time when, of course, the campaign by Israel in Gaza continues. And we've seen reports now that journalists have been targeted. We know that many have already died in Gaza, but journalists from Al Jazeera have been targeted. What is the latest in terms of what we know about these Al Jazeera Al Jazeera journalists who have been killed in Gaza? Indeed, overnight, a tent was struck by Israel killing at least four members of that news operation, the Qatari owned News operation Al Jazeera. Unusually, and it's worth noting that there have been scores of journalists killed. Oftentimes, there's no Israeli comment or they're treated as civilian collateral damage. The Israelis say they indeed targeted one of those journalists, accusing him of being doubling effectively as a Hamas fighter, a Hamas rocketeer. The language they used spoke in the current in the present tense, suggesting that he was, while working as a journalist, also working to advance Hamas's military aims and attacks on Israel. The Israelis produced documentary footage which they said back this up it would appear that this is backdated the documents. They had suggested that they had Hamas ties several years ago, eight or seven years ago. What's interesting here, especially beyond the angle of an attack on journalists, is the geopolitical aspect. Given that Al-Jazeera is a flagship operation of the Qatari states. Qatar, despite its troubled relationship with Israel, is still important to the Israelis. It certainly as a mediating country with Hamas when it comes to now stalled efforts for a cease fire. This will not be well received in Qatar. The question is whether the Qataris will choose to act, respond on the diplomatic track vis a vis Israel by, for example, officially shutting themselves off as a mediator should those cease fire talks resume.
India Today
14-06-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Israeli planes to be soon over Iran: Netanyahu
Vowing to continue to strike hard at Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said Israel will strike every site and target of the Iranian regime.'In the near future, you will see Israeli Air Force planes over the skies of Tehran. We will strike every site and every target of the Ayatollahs' regime,' Netanyahu told the citizens in a video warned what Iran has experienced so far would be nothing in front of what they are going to face in the coming days. The Israeli Premier said that the goal of the Israeli operation is two fold - to foil Iran's nuclear ambitions and to stop its ballistic missiles programme.'We were in the 90th minute. There was a race by Iran's nuclear teams to create nuclear bombs - atomic bombs for Israel's destruction,' he said justifying Israeli Operation Rising attacked Iran's capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country's nuclear programme and attacked its nuclear, missile and military complex. In retaliation, Iran launched retaliatory strikes on Israel with the conflict escalating further on Watch
Asharq Al-Awsat
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Document Written by Arafat Helped Israel Recover Body of Israeli Soldier Missing for 43 Years
The body of Israeli soldier Tzvi Feldman, who went missing since the Battle of Sultan Yacoub between Israel and Syria in June 1982, have been returned to Israel in a special operation carried out by commando forces after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime, Israeli reports said on Sunday. During the operation, Israeli warplanes carried out intensive raids on several locations around the place to protect the forces and hide their traces. Military sources in Tel Aviv said that the mission was conducted months ago, enabled by old intelligence and advanced operational capabilities. However, the sources added, non-Israeli agents, operating on behalf of the Mossad, had a cover story and had been inside Syria for several years to collect information on the location of Feldman's body. In the past five months, following the fall of Assad regime, the agents operated 'under fire' and visited a graveyard several times, obtaining various findings that were sent to Israel for identification. When findings matched Feldman's DNA, the Israeli team recovered the full body and brought it home. According to Army Radio, the operation lasted for months, with the final identification of the body coming over the past weekend. Al-Sharaa Government Not Involved in Operation Sources said that following the fall of Assad regime, there were breakthroughs in Feldman's case and an opportunity to recover his remains. Although the Israeli operation was conducted under the new Syrian government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, the latter was not involved in the operation, they said. Security officials emphasized that the operation didn't involve any cooperation by the new Syrian government, denying recent reports of indirect talks between Israel and al-Sharaa in this regard. The sources said that intelligence that helped carry out the operation were completely separate from efforts related to Hamas' abduction of Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip. They said the massive efforts to find the hundreds of Israelis who were abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7 were concentrated in a newly established Abductees Command under retired Maj.-Gen. Nitzan Alon, allowing the Repatriation Department to continue its work behind the scenes, even during the war. Other sources in Tel Aviv said information about the fate of Israeli soldiers who were missing in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, were uncovered in July 2021. At the time, the Israeli intelligence discovered a secret document written by late Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, who referred to the presence of three graves located in the cemetery of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus. The Walla website showed a copy of the document that it said was provided by a 'non-Israeli' source, and written more than 20 years ago. The document is a handwritten note on an official paper from the Palestinian Authority presidential office. The source claimed the document was written by Yasser Arafat. The letter did not specify whether the graves belonged to the Israeli soldiers killed in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub, however, it included a detailed map of three graves in the Yarmouk camp, where members of the PLO factions were buried after 1980. When the document was uncovered in 2021, Israel asked for Russia's assistance to identify whether the location included the bodies of its missing soldiers, particularly that in 2019, Moscow had helped Netanyahu recover the body of Zachary Baumel from the Yarmouk refugee camp. On Sunday, Netanyahu tried to benefit from the recovery of Feldman's body. He personally visited his family in Tel Aviv, accompanied by his military secretary and the coordinator for hostages and missing persons, to deliver the news. 'For decades, Tzvi was listed as missing, and the efforts to locate him—alongside the other soldiers missing from that battle—never ceased. Six years ago, we brought back Staff Sergent Zachary Baumel for burial in Israel. Today, we bring back Tzvi. We will not stop until we bring home Staff Sgt. Yehuda Katz, who is still missing from that same battle.' The prime minister then extended his gratitude to 'the Mossad, the Israeli Army, the Shin Bet, and Hostage and Missing Persons Coordinator Gal Hirsch for their decades of dedicated, determined and courageous efforts to bring Tzvi home—and to return all of our missing and captive, living and fallen alike.' He said, 'Israel and my government are fully committed to this mission.' Israeli Paratroopers Meanwhile, the Israeli Army announced on Sunday that after five months of operational activity in the Golan Heights and Syria, soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade have completed their mission on the northern border. It said the troops are now preparing, as part of the 98th Division, for additional missions in the Gaza Strip ahead of the effort to expand the operations in the area. 'In the coming days, the Paratroopers Brigade will be replaced by reserve troops, who will continue their activity in Syria,' the statement said, adding that the Army will continue to operate across all arenas in order to protect the citizens of Israel.
