Overview

• The Israeli Foreign Ministry has rejected claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza and announced daily tactical pauses and food airdrops.
• Historians David N. Myers and Tomer Persico have called for a moral reckoning by adding Palestinian suffering to Tisha B’Av commemorations.
• Temple Mount activists and far-right lawmakers organized a “Not with weeping, with roaring” march around Jerusalem’s Old City walls as an alternative to traditional mourning.
• A Zion Square gathering marked a decade since Shira Banki’s murder with readings of Lamentations, musical interludes and panels on judicial reform and conscription.
• Anat Sharbat’s Hostage Square event in Tel Aviv featured public Lamentations readings and dialogue circles with hostage families to promote intercommunal unity.