Day 566 - Calling Hamas 'sons of dogs,' Abbas steps up condemnations

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

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Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

US bureau chief Jacob Magid joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.

To commemorate Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, October 7 survivors, released hostages and hostage family members toured Auschwitz yesterday ahead of the start of the March of the Living today. Likewise, we hear what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog said last night at the official state ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

During a speech at the opening of the PLO Central Council meeting last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called Hamas “sons of dogs” and told the terror group to release hostages it is holding in order to eliminate what he said was Israel’s pretext to continue its war in Gaza. Magid weighs in with his view on the motivations for these statements.

The father of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to return its hostage envoy Adam Boehler to the negotiation effort, arguing that the latter’s direct talks with Hamas last month were the closest his son had come to being released from captivity in Gaza. Magid spoke with Adi Alexander and reports back.

A man was killed in a shark attack off the coast of Hadera, police confirmed Wednesday, after human remains were positively identified by forensics experts. The victim was named as 45-year-old Barak Tzach, a father of four from the central city of Petah Tikva. Borschel-Dan explains why the sharks are gathering and urges the public not to swim with or feed them.

Check out The Times of Israel's ongoing live blog for more updates.

For further reading:

Hamas claims it won’t develop weapons, dig tunnels during long-term truce with Israel

Abbas tells ‘sons of dogs’ Hamas to free hostages, remove Israel’s ‘excuses’ for Gaza war

Father of American-Israeli hostage urges Boehler’s return to negotiating table

Police confirm man killed in shark attack; victim named as Barak Tzach, 45

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IMAGE: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the 32nd Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council session in Ramallah on April 23, 2025. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. Today is Thursday, April 24th, Day 566 of the war.
0:11.8	Amanda Borsel, Don, here with our U.S. Bureau Chief, Jacob, Mikeet. Hi, Jacob. Thanks for joining me today.
0:17.5	Hey, Amanda. Good to be with you.
0:19.1	Today is Yomashawa, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day,
0:23.1	and it's the day that survivors released hostages and hostage family members are actually
0:28.0	touring Auschwitz as well for the March of the Living. So please check out this spot for more
0:34.6	updates from my colleague, Jessica Steinbergberg as the day progresses. Today,
0:39.4	Jacob and I are going to discuss, among other topics, how the hostage release negotiations
0:44.5	are taking a bit of a turn for a long-term truth proposed by Hamas, and also how the president
0:51.8	of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is calling Hamas the son of dogs.
0:57.2	All of this and more when we're back.
1:04.7	Tolkien's trilogy was a perfect book to send to a POW.
1:10.5	Very well-defined good and evil, and it was a great escape from
1:15.8	the physical environment that we were in. It's November 16, 1973, and we're at the military
1:22.1	section of the Lode Airport. A red and white, DC-6 passenger plane lands, and out of it comes a stream of young men.
1:29.7	Ten men known collectively as Shvuyay Milchameta Atasha, the POWs of the War of Attrition.
1:36.9	All of them had been held, most of the time together, in an Egyptian prison for more than three and a half years.
1:43.0	So it was very much a kibbutz.
1:46.2	I want to draw your attention to a small, tattered bag, Menachemani is holding.
1:51.0	That brown knapsack actually held a treasure.
1:54.0	A manuscript that would make these men in their unlikely story momentarily famous.
1:59.0	It was the fruit of their communal work during the years in which they were held in one of
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