Brigitte Bardot: provocative on film, but even more provocative for animals, for more than twice as long PARIS, France––Brigitte Bardot, 91, a fashion model for four years, a film actress for 20 years, and a full-time animal advocate for the last 52 years of her life, died on December 28, 2025 of undisclosed causes at […]
A world away, Animals Lebanon copes with an even bigger disaster
Hurricane Helene was bad, but falling bombs are even deadlier than falling trees & power lines BEIRUT, Lebanon––“Last night was the worst we have had, and bombing continues,” Animals Lebanon cofounder and vice president Maggie Shaarawi emailed to ANIMALS 24-7 on the morning of September 28, 2024. Hurricane Helene had just ripped across five southern […]
Worst dog attack month in two years includes death in Gaza firefight
Malinois, Rottweiler, XL Bully, American bully, & common pit bulls all contribute to the toll GAZA CITY; CLOVIS, California; COVENTRY, United Kingdom; HOUSTON, SHREVEPORT, FLORENCE, South Carolina; TUSCALOOSA, Alabama––A dog attack death during a Gaza firefight, an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit over use of police dogs resulting in a death in Clovis, California, […]
Why animals make Israel vs. Hamas look like an Old West range war
The place ain’t big enough for everyone’s herd TEL AVIV, GAZA––Though the Gaza war is fought with jets, tanks, rockets, automatic rifles, and bitterly opposed world views, ideology, and international politics, recent incidents involving sheep, goats, donkeys, horses, and pigs illustrate that it is, beneath everything else, fundamentally an Old West range war. Rustlers are […]
River otters return to Israel & 500 million birds pass over before Passover
Jewish Vegan Life urges Jews to go vegan in combined Passover/Earth Day campaign TEL AVIV, Israel––River otters offer perhaps the best news coming out of Israel lately. War is still raging in Gaza. The Hamas militia remains unsubdued. Thousands of Gaza civilians are still starving, chiefly due to the difficulty of feeding them without feeding […]
Not good times for vultures over Israel & Gaza, either
Three endangered griffon vultures found dead on five-month anniversary of Hamas attack YERUHAM, Israel; NUSEIRAT, Gaza––The Israel Nature & Parks Authority on March 9, 2024 announced the discoveries of an endangered griffon vulture male, female, and hatchling dead near their cliffside nest near the junction of Negev desert, forming most of southern Israel, with the […]
Animals & animal rescuers caught in the Hamas/Israel crossfire
Even if the shooting ends by Ramadan, a ceasefire will not bring peace for animals RAFAH, Gaza; RAMAT GAN, Israel–– “Sergeant major Adi Eldor, 21, a combat soldier in Maglan commando, was killed last night by anti-tank missiles, alongside his teammate, sergeant major Alon Kleinman, also 21,” the Israeli animal charity Let The Animals Live […]
Gaza, Israel: reckoning the animal body count from the human toll
The war will go on, regardless of deaths, until Hamas runs out of food & ammunition NUSEIRAT, Gaza; RAMAT GAN, Israel––Reports of both human and animal malnutrition and starvation dominate the news from Gaza, nearly 90 days after Hamas terrorists and other Gazan men who followed them into Israel on October 7, 2023 massacred […]
No miracles for animals or anyone else at Bethlehem this year
And apparently no real-life manger scenes anywhere in the war zone BETHLEHEM, GAZA, RAMAT GAN––Images of real-life manger scenes might have been expected to emerge from war-torn Gaza in particular at Christmas 2023, showing Palestinian refugee families huddled among donkeys, sheep, and camels, with parachute flares lighting the sky like the Star of Bethlehem, but […]
Food scarcity hits Gaza dogs & cats; Hamas alleges dogs are eating the dead
The Gaza dogs are hungry, but are they hungry enough yet to eat people? NUSEIRAT, Gaza; RAMAT GAN, Israel––Claims that starving Gaza street dogs are eating unburied victims of the Israel/Gaza war are helping to fuel controversy over the Israeli Defense Force response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks. The claims may be […]