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 […]
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 […]
Gaza cats hide, dogs run, & donkeys go on working amid Israeli bombing
Animal rescue activity is nearly completed in evacuated parts of Israel attacked by Hamas AL ZAHRA, Gaza; TEL AVIV, Israel––Amid the explosions and chaos of the Israeli Defense Force incursion to destroy Hamas tunnels, dogs run, cats hide, and the Gaza donkeys go on working. Indeed, the surviving Gaza donkeys are working perhaps harder than […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]