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 […]
14,000 sheep & 2,500 cattle: out of the war zone, off to slaughter
And still aboard a livestock transport ship after almost a month at sea FREMANTLE, Australia; NUSEIRAT, Gaza; RAMAT GAN, Israel––Fourteen thousand sheep and 2,500 cattle aboard the livestock carrier MV Bahijah have, so far, escaped becoming casualties of the Israel/Hamas war. The animals, however, may yet become casualties of the ongoing Australian live animal export […]
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 […]
Animal rescuers try to stay alive in Gaza & in Hamas terrorists’ hands
Searching for the missing & trying to feed the found NUSEIRAT, Gaza; RAMAT GAN, Israel––Forty-five days since Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, foreign visitors, and foreign farm workers in a October 7, 2023 dawn sneak attack on kibbutz collective farms and an outdoor concert venue, abducting about 250 more, Let The Animals Live […]
Let The Animals Live reminds what the Israel/Hamas war is all about
Sulala Animal Rescue is out of contact as war intensifies; Israeli Bat Sanctuary stands down from active rescue, but continues to care for animals from massacred kibbutz farms & evacuated Israeli territory RAMAT GAN, Israel; NUSEIRAT, Gaza––With expanded Israel Defense Force ground operations in Gaza underway, concurrent with intensified negotiations seeking the release of 229 […]
Heroes & heroines for animals on either side of the Israel/Gaza war zone
Nora Lifschitz, Ilan Ben Avraham, Saeed Al Err & family, et al TEL AVIV, Israel; GAZA, Palestine––Israeli Bat Sanctuary founder Nora Lifschitz is emerging as an Israeli national heroine for her now nearly 200 all-species animal rescues from the massacred kibbutz collective farms just outside Gaza. Let the Animals Live, the largest Israel animal rescue […]
Dogs, sheep, & storks seek safety in Gaza & Israel, two weeks into war
Birds far outnumber humans, but humans have the guns GAZA, Palestine; TEL AVIV, Israel––As many as 500 million birds per year, of approximately 250 species, migrate over Gaza each year, including most of the storks in the world, seasonally moving among Africa, Asia, and Europe. Hundreds of thousands of birds are on the wing over […]
“Today seemed calmer,” Gaza animal shelter said, as war intensified
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 […]