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 […]
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 […]
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 […]