Israeli rescuers bring out animals left behind by Hamas massacres GAZA CITY, TEL AVIV––Hezbollah snipers shot Israeli surveillance cameras to pieces along the Lebanese border. Two thousand U.S. Marines aboard American warships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea were put on full alert preparatory to a scheduled October 18, 2023 visit to Tel Aviv, Israel, by […]
Israel & Gaza: “More & more animals with burns, open wounds”
Dairy cattle, sheep, & goats occupy the no-man’s-land as Israeli tanks roll toward Gaza City GAZA CITY, TEL AVIV–– “Our team are out there non-stop. We’re getting more and more cats and dogs with burns, open wounds, broken limbs, and the list goes on and on,” posted the Israeli organization Let The Animals Live […]
Donkeys haul Gaza refugees south ahead of Israeli pursuit of Hamas
Balaam’s talking donkey needed to report on the animal aspects of the crisis GAZA CITY, TEL AVIV––If only the donkeys could talk, instead of a small army of metaphorical jackasses with official positions and microphones! Unfortunately, the reputed first and only talking donkey in all the long history of Israel and Palestine belonged to the […]
Upbeat reports from animal rescuers in the Israel/Gaza war zone
Street dogs find their own way to the one Gaza animal shelter; fruit bat rescuer leads multi-species rescue missions into devastated kibbutzes TEL AVIV, Israel; GAZA CITY, Gaza––“Something wonderful has happened,” Sulala Animal Rescue posted to Facebook from besieged Gaza City on October 11, 2023, a surprising message from a location likely to soon be […]
Israel & Gaza: dogs, cats, donkeys, cattle, sheep, & chickens under fire
Animal casualties could outnumber the human deaths, but no one seems to be counting RAMAT GAN, Israel; GAZA CITY, Gaza––“The war is still going on,” Sulala Animal Rescue founder Saeed Al Err posted to Facebook from Gaza City as a fifth day of intense combat drew to a close in Gaza and adjacent parts […]
Rescuers try to survive & keep animals alive under fire in Israel & Gaza
Israeli & Palestinian animal aid charities report human casualties RAMAT GAN, Israel––Reliable information about animals and animal aid operations in Israel near Gaza and within the Gaza strip remains scarce, four days after Hamas terrorist attacks plunged the region into renewed warfare. The Israeli animal sheltering and advocacy organization Let The Animals Live, of Ramat […]
U.K. to ban American Bully XL pit bulls, prime minister Sunak pledges
“I share the nation’s horror,” says Rishi Sunak LONDON, U.K.––United Kingdom prime minister Rishi Sunak on September 15, 2023 announced that his government intends to add the American Bully XL to the short list of dog breeds prohibited by the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991. “I share the nation’s horror at the recent videos we’ve all […]
Outside animal rescuers excluded from Morocco after earthquake
But British-funded SPANA and Massachusetts SPCA subsidiary American Fondouk were both already there MARRAKECH, Morocco––September 11 might be the grimmest of dates thus far into the 21st century. September 11, 2001 is marked in the U.S. for terrorist attacks that killed 2,996 people when Al Qaida hijackers crashed two jets into the World Trade Center […]
Lumpy skin disease––what’s that?––hits cattle from Africa to Nepal
Lumpy skin disease––yes, it’s ugly––also set Australia & Indonesia at odds for months. KATHMANDU, Nepal––Best known as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, circa 564 B.C., and as the land of Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, Nepal during the summer of 2023 gained a more sinister distinction as ground zero for arguably the […]
Icelandic whalers kept in port by women who chain selves to masts
Anahita Babaei and Elissa Biou held out through cold night, Babaei without food or water, but surrendered after 33 hours REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Slipping aboard the Icelandic whaling vessels Hvalur 8 and Hvalur 9 at approximately 5:00 a.m. on September 4, 2023, anti-whaling activists Anahita Babaei and Elissa Biou climbed the masts of each ship and chained themselves into the […]