Tel Aviv Police Ban Protest Against Gaza War After Demanding Organizers Cap Attendance
Tel Aviv Police Ban Protest Against Gaza War After Demanding Organizers Cap Attendance

Tel Aviv Police Ban Protest Against Gaza War After Demanding Organizers Cap Attendance

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Israel at War Day 685 | UN: Israeli Strikes Cause Widespread Destruction and Casualties in and Around Gaza City

Lebanese citizen returned to Israel after being held for a year. Israel’s High Court ruled that the plan to divide the West Bank was not in breach of international law. The U.S. State Department said the plan was not a violation of the Geneva Conventions. Israel and the Palestinians are in the midst of a war that has killed more than 2,000.

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These are the latest updates on day 685 of the war:

■ Israel’s prime minister said he is approving the plans to take over Gaza and has instructed to begin immediate talks for the release of the hostages and an end to the war.

■ Various protests erupted across Israel calling for a hostage release deal, against the war and against the IDF’s plans to retake Gaza.

■ The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza reported 70 people were killed in Israeli strikes over 24 hours.

■ Britain summoned Israel’s ambassador in London following the approval of construction plans that would divide the West Bank. 21 countries co-signed a statement urging Israel to backtrack its approval.

■ In response to the E1 plans, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee said that Israelis living in the West Bank are not violating international law, and accused Europe of encouraging settlements by planning to recognize a Palestinian state.

■ Israel’s High Court ruled that several factual changes that have occurred may justify the rejection of the petition to increase the scope of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

■ Palestinian factions started handing over some of the weapons held in refugee camps, in the first step of an agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon.

■ Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a man in the West Bank city of Hebron after he approached a checkpoint holding what was later revealed to be a handgun, the military said.

■ Lebanon returned an Israeli citizen to Israel on Thursday after he had been held in the country for a year, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced.

Source: Haaretz.com | View original article

What’s It Like to Be an Israeli Celebrity Who Speaks Out Against the Gaza War?

Israeli musicians are learning the hard way that speaking out against the war in Gaza comes at a price, culture reporter Shay Ringel explained on the Haaretz Podcast. Ringel recounted how at least one artist had a concert cancelled as a result of signing the letter.

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Israeli musicians are learning the hard way that speaking out against the war in Gaza comes at a price, culture reporter Shay Ringel explained on the Haaretz Podcast.

The letter, signed by 1,200 members of the cultural and artistic community, was unusually outspoken regarding the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, calling on Israeli soldiers to disobey “unlawful orders” and to refrain from “committing war crimes.”

“Talking about the horrific things that are happening in Gaza – the killing of children, the expulsion of population – this is something new,” Ringel explains.

Ringel recounted how at least one artist had a concert cancelled as a result of signing the letter. He retracted his signature, and his concert was restored “all within the course of two hours.”

In his conversation with host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Ringel noted that most of the signatories are older and more established musicians, while younger artists are “completely absent” from the petition.

Source: Haaretz.com | View original article

‘Israel Doesn’t Want Journalists on the Ground’: CNN’s Jeremy Diamond on the Fight to Enter Gaza

CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond breaks down the status of the legal and public fight by international journalists to enter Gaza. “We have been calling on the Israeli government to allow us into Gaza to be able to do our jobs,” he said. Diamond also discussed a recent harrowing experience under threat from settlers in the West Bank. “It prepared me to cover any story that I cover fairly, fearlessly and always driven by a sense of accountability,” Diamond said.

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The foreign press corps in Israel has been battling – unsuccessfully – since the Gaza war began in October 2023 to be permitted access to the Strip in order to report on the conflict and the humanitarian situation there from the ground.

Appearing on the Haaretz Podcast, CNN’s Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond breaks down the status of the legal and public fight by international journalists to enter Gaza, noting that “never before in Israel’s history has the Israeli government blocked access to Gaza for this amount of time. We reached that milestone months and months ago, and we have been calling on the Israeli government to allow us into Gaza to be able to do our jobs.”

The issue has taken on a new urgency, he added, as starvation in Gaza worsens, and he, his fellow journalists and news organizations feel the immediate need to assist and relieve the Palestinian journalists who have been doing “heroic work under extraordinarily difficult circumstances” reporting until now.

Open gallery view Demonstrators and journalists gather to protest against hunger in the Rimal district of Gaza City on July 19, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) Credit: AFP/OMAR AL-QATTAA

“The primary motivation for our call is not that they aren’t presenting a fair and accurate picture of what’s happening. It’s because they shouldn’t have to shoulder that burden on their own. We have watched as every single person in Gaza has been impacted by the starvation of this man-made crisis that is happening inside the Gaza Strip, and that includes our fellow journalists inside of Gaza who have been surviving, sometimes by stirring salt into water to be able to give them some energy to be able to continue to go on and do their jobs,” Diamond said.

In his conversation with host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Diamond also discussed a recent harrowing experience under threat from settlers in the West Bank, as well as his experience transitioning to his post in Jerusalem after covering Donald Trump as CNN’s White House correspondent.

Covering Trump’s campaign and presidency, he said, “prepared me for many of the slings and arrows that I’ve faced here as Jerusalem correspondent – but more importantly, it prepared me to cover any story that I cover fairly, fearlessly and always driven by a sense of accountability.”

Source: Haaretz.com | View original article

Israel at War Day 668 | Netanyahu to Instruct IDF on Gaza War Objectives After It Pushes to Expand Offensive

Around 50 people were arrested after hundreds of people gathered outside the Trump International Hotel near Columbus Circle on Monday. The NYPD arrested around 30 people for blocking the road outside the hotel. The demonstration, titled “Jews Say: No More,” was organized by T’ruah, Jews for Economic and Racial Justice, IfNotNow, and Israelis for Peace.

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Open gallery view A protest against the Gaza war in New York on Monday, August 4, 2025. Credit: Gili Getz

Around 50 people were arrested after hundreds of people gathered outside the Trump International Hotel near Columbus Circle on Monday, for a protest demanding the Trump administration pressure Israel to halt its assault on Gaza and allow humanitarian aid into the Strip.

The NYPD arrested around 30 people for blocking the road outside the hotel. The demonstration, titled “Jews Say: No More,” was organized by T’ruah, Jews for Economic and Racial Justice, IfNotNow, and Israelis for Peace.

“We need to keep up the pressure and get more food and aid into Gaza NOW before more Palestinians die of starvation,” T’ruah said in a statement. According to organizers, more than 900 attended the protest.

“I say with one voice that we oppose these atrocities, not in spite of our Judaism, but for many of us because of it,” said Deborah Kaplan, interim director of IfNotNow, told the protest.

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, the city’s highest-ranking Jewish elected official, said, “Yesterday we commemorated Tisha B’Av, mourning the destruction done to the Jewish people. Today, we are standing to call out the destruction being carried out by the Jewish state.”

Motaz Azaiza, a photographer from Gaza said, “the people of Gaza just want to live in peace not to fear walking the street to get food, not to be treated by violence of occupation. I just want protection for my people. This madness must end.”

The protest is ongoing, with chants, banners, and a steady stream of demonstrators arriving as police monitor the area.

Source: Haaretz.com | View original article

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