Former chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, whose family perished in the Holocaust, shares from his experience and tells 13-year-old Ariel Zohar, the son of slain Israel Hayom reporter Yaniv Zohar: "You too will have a good life, because you see how many good people love you."
Local media says that the two are political refugees with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
"All ships in the Red Sea bound for Israeli ports, regardless of their nationality, will become a target for our armed forces," a military spokesperson for the Houthis says.
Israeli troops reached the heart of Khan Younis on Wednesday in a new phase of the war, now entering its third month.
In a heart-warming video recorded by Emilia’s mother, Danielle, and released on social networks by the family and the Israeli Ministry of Education, her caretaker is seen opening the gate for Emilia, saying: “Welcome, welcome, welcome – I feel like breaking into song! Wow, I love her!” After she hugs the 5-year-old girl, the other girls start hugging her too. One of them is heard telling Emilia: “I missed you for such a long, long time,” and “I missed you. I saw you on TV.”
"Luckily for me Bella is unlike all the other small dogs that I personally know, she is rather quiet, unless when she is playing or mad," she said. "If they would have seen her as a bother I think they would not have let me keep her, in all honesty." Many pets were killed or went missing during Hamas' rampage.
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US President Joe Biden sides with Israel, saying Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks.
The report called some of the intelligence "arguably more detailed than would have been required by the IDF itself."
Hundreds of soldiers have been working non-stop to recover the bodies of the soldiers who were massacred by Hamas since Oct. 7. Sometimes they have to do this under heavy fire and in total darkness.