Day 655 - 28 nations call for end of Gaza war; Israel unfazed

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🗓️ 22 July 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.

Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.

Britain and 27 Western nations, including Australia, Canada, France, and Italy, said in a joint statement Monday that the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza “must end now,” arguing civilians’ suffering has “reached new depths.” The letter comes at a time of continued mass casualty events in the vicinity of aid distribution sites and on the day of expanded military operations in the Strip, in Deir al-Balah. How seriously is Israel taking this harshly worded appeal?

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot urged Israel to allow foreign press into the Gaza Strip. His statement came after The Journalists Association for Agence France Presse (AFP) said that its freelancer reporters in the Gaza Strip are at serious risk of starvation, and that “without intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.” Horovitz discusses Israel’s near-total ban on Israeli and foreign press entering Gaza following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack and the ban’s repercussions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party will decide Wednesday on a replacement for MK Yuli Edelstein as head of the powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee over his refusal to advance a bill enshrining sweeping military service exemptions for the ultra-Orthodox. We talk about Likud faction chairman Ofir Katz’s unusual announcement that he had decided to “hold elections” for the position and that he was taking nominations from within the party for Edelstein’s replacement.

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

For further reading:

Soldier killed in blast, as IDF pushes into central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah for 1st time

25 Western nations say Gaza war ‘must end now,’ suffering has ‘reached new depths’

Pope urges immediate end to ‘barbarity’ of Gaza war after church damaged

Trump didn’t like seeing reports of Gazans killed while seeking aid — White House

Likud to boot Knesset defense panel head Edelstein for blocking Haredi draft exemption

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IMAGE: Illustrative: Protesters wave Palestinian flags and a banner reading 'Complicit' as they gather on Westminster Bridge in front of 'Big Ben,' at the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament, in central London, on June 4, 2025. (Adrian Dennis / AFP)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. Today's Tuesday, July 22nd, day 655 of the war.
0:11.7	Amanda Borchelle Dan here with our editor, David Horowitz. David, thanks for joining me today.
0:16.7	Sure, Amanda. How you do? I'm well. Thank you. Some 30 nations and institutions have signed on to a letter denouncing Israel's prosecution of the war in Gaza.
0:27.3	We'll hear more about this as well as the drive to have foreign media reporting from the strip.
0:33.4	Likud M.K. Yuli Edlstein is in the hot seat as he continues to pursue what he considers a fair universal conscription bill.
0:42.3	All of this and more when we're back.
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1:33.3	I'm Amanda Borsch Dan here with our editor, David Horowitz.
1:34.4	First, some headlines.
1:39.6	An IDF reserve soldier was killed during fighting in the Southern Gaza Strip yesterday.
1:50.0	The slain soldier was named as Sergeant Major in Reserves Vladimir Loza of the 5th Brigade's 70-20th Battalion from Ashgallon. According to the preliminary IDF probe, Loza was killed after a blast caused a building to collapse during operations in the Rafach area.
1:59.0	The military suspects the blast was caused by a planted explosive device.
2:05.3	Earlier yesterday, Staff Sergeant Emmett Cohen, 19 of the Golani Brigade's 13th Battalion from Holon,
2:12.1	was killed by an explosion in southern Gaza.
2:14.6	According to preliminary IDF investigations, Cohen was killed by a blast from
2:19.5	Israeli military munitions that detonated inside a building in Khan Yunus. Let's turn to a letter that
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