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Israel Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2026-07-05 at 17:02
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- Jul 5, 2026
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HEADLINES Gaza Evacuation Bribes Expose Flaws Hamas Dissolves Emergency Committees, Appoints Caretaker Netanyahu Cabinet Rejects TV Regulator Orders The time is now 5:02 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report. In Regional Impacts, allegations have emerged that some Gazans have bribed Hamas officials to place healthy people on emergency medical evacuation lists, with forged medical documents used to claim illness or injury, and families with genuinely ill relatives saying their loved ones were moved up the queue after bribes; observers note that Gaza's health authorities are run by Hamas, raising questions about the neutrality of the evacuation process; the reports also reference earlier claims in the war's early days of people bribing guards at the Egyptian border to leave Gaza. In the Conflict with Iran and its Regional Proxies, Hamas is expected to announce tomorrow the dissolution of the emergency governmental committees and to appoint a caretaker to manage the committee until a technocratic committee arrives in the Gaza Strip to assume authority over government offices. In US Policy Concerning Israel, President Donald Trump is set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy while in Turkey for a NATO summit to press to end the war in Ukraine, with a first meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and a later session with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, and a news conference; a senior official said the battlefield has frozen and there is urgency to stop the fighting; Trump will urge NATO allies to increase defense spending, with defense-related deals worth billions expected to be announced at the summit. In Israeli Domestic Politics, analysts note that MKs Yuli Edelstein and Yair Lapid display surprising alignm…