Day 676 - IDF lays out projected timeline for capture of Gaza City

The Times of Israel Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 12 August 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.

Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today's episode.

The IDF may take at least another week to gauge how many troops it will need for the government-ordered renewed offensive in Gaza City, military officials said Sunday. This comes as relations between the IDF and the political echelon seem more strained than we’ve previously seen. Fabian weighs in.

This morning, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) asserted that Hamas has been inflating the toll of Palestinians it says have died of malnutrition, and most of those verified to have died had preexisting medical conditions. Fabian describes how Hamas's own death figures have allowed COGAT to draw its conclusions.

An Israeli strike in Gaza City Sunday night killed a prominent Palestinian journalist for Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, Anas al-Sharif, whom the Israel Defense Forces has long argued was a Hamas terrorist in charge of rocket launching. Fabian lays out the IDF's case against al-Sharif and discusses his targeting in the context of the larger stated military goal of picking off every asset of the terror group.

On Sunday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said that IDF troops will remain deployed to northern West Bank refugee camps at least until the end of the year, as part of the “Operation Iron Wall” defensive. The operation began in January in the Jenin refugee camp, adjacent to the city of Jenin, and later expanded to include refugee camps near the city of Tulkarem in the western West Bank — the Tulkarem and Nur Shams camps. We learn what's going on there now and what the forecast is.

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

For further reading:

IDF assessing how many troops needed for new Gaza offensive as Security Council convenes

Israel says review shows Hamas inflating Gaza hunger data in ‘orchestrated campaign’

Amid global outcry, IDF says Al Jazeera reporter it killed was receiving Hamas salary

IDF strike on Gaza City kills Al Jazeera reporter accused of being a Hamas cell leader

Katz: IDF to remain in north West Bank refugee camps until year’s end at least

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IMAGE: IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in an image released by the military on August 11, 2025. (IDF)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. Today is Tuesday, August 12th, day 676 of the war.
0:12.6	Amanda Borchelle, Dan here with our military correspondent, Emmanuel Fabian. Hi, Manny. Thanks for joining me today.
0:18.0	Hi, Amanda. So this morning, Israel's coordinator of government activities in the territories, or Kogat,
0:23.9	came out with a scathing response to widespread international accusations of starvation in Gaza.
0:31.5	Manny will fill us in.
0:32.6	And also amid global outcry, an Israeli military spokesperson said yesterday that the prominent Al Jazeera
0:39.8	journalists it killed a day earlier was an active Hamas member who received a salary from the
0:46.3	terror group. We'll also dive into how long it will take the IDF to roll out the new plan to take
0:52.9	Gaza City. So all of this and more when we're back.
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1:06.0	the living choose? What about people like me? What about people that feel like they cannot even walk safely
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1:25.2	It's undeniable. Antisemitism in Western Europe is surging.
1:28.8	So what I always say is that not only we're part of that European continent, but we're
1:34.0	the future, we should be the future.
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1:41.3	Juan talks about his journey from a devout Catholic childhood in Spain to life as an
1:45.7	observant Jew in Brussels, and what it means for him, personally and professionally, to fight for the
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1:57.5	podcasts.
2:12.2	I'm Amanda Borschelle Dan here with their military correspondent Emmanuel Fabian.
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