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 […]
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 […]
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 […]