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IDF Home Front Command: Around 20 people trapped under the rubble in Taba Hilton Hotel (Channel 1) Israel asks that 15 bodies, which were taken to Nueiba morgues after three Sinai attacks, be moved to Israel (Channel 1)

It began on Wednesday evening, as Israel began settling down for the first day of the weeklong Sukkot holiday. A Kassam rocket fired from northern PA-controlled Gaza slammed into Haggai Street in S’derot at about 17:00, critically wounding two small children who were playing together in a yard. Dorit Aniso, 18-months, and Yuval Abebeh, 4, died of their massive injuries a short time following the attack. About 25 persons were transported to hospital, with 18 reportedly treated for hysteria and anxiety. One person was seriously injured, one moderately, and the remainder light. Dorit and Yuval will be laid to rest...

Natan Katanoff of Sderot believes the large new succa on his front patio saved his life and that of his family when a Kassam rocket landed across the street Tuesday morning. "It's a miracle," said Katanoff as he pointed to the small bullet-size holes in the white floral cloth. Metal shards bounced off the metal frame, thus missing him as he sat drinking tea by the front window. Thanks to the succa, the shards also failed to hit the gas canister underneath the window, thereby averting an explosion that would have killed the family. "If it wasn't for the succa,...

1,017 Israelis killed, 5,600 injured during four years of intifada Data published by ISA four years after conflict erupted shows significant drop in fatalities and injuries but Amir Buhbut Since the intifada erupted four years ago, 1,017 Israelis were killed, of them 70% were civilians and 30% members of Israeli security forces, data published by the ISA this (Monday) afternoon after four years of confrontation reveal. According to the data, Palestinian militants perpetrated 13,730 shooting attacks and 138 suicide bombings. Nearly 5,600 Israelis were injured during the time period, of them 82% civilians and 18% security forces personnel. The...

Child survivors of last week's terror attack on a Russian school are to be airlifted to Israel for treatment at facilities specializing in such care. The children and their mothers will be flown here by the Michael Cherney Fund, which was created after the Dolphinarium suicide bomb attack, which killed 20 teenagers and wounded over 100 in 2001. The Fund also helped the victims of a May 2002 bombing in south Russia, where 10 children were killed and many more wounded. On Tuesday night, Russians got a horrific glimpse of conditions inside the Beslan school gymnasium when a television station...

Dozens of Be'er Sheva residents attended the funeral of three-year-old Aviel Atash yesterday. Aviel and his mother, Rachel, were on their way home from a trip to the mall when a suicide bomber blew up their bus. Aviel was mortally wounded and died moments after reaching the hospital. Rachel was seriously wounded and is still in intensive care in Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva. The identification of Aviel took several hours and required a blood test from his father, so it was only early yesterday morning that the family received confirmation. Rachel was not told until shortly before the...

(IsraelNN.com) Nineteen persons were killed by Arab terror in the month of August 2004. Others were wounded, including persons who sustained permanent disabilities. August 11 – 15:05 – A terrorist detonated a bomb at an IDF checkpoint in the Kalandia area on Jerusalem’s northern border. Two persons were killed and about twenty injured. Among the injured were six border policemen, with three sustaining serious injuries. Most of the injured were PA residents. (FATAH/al-Aqsa Brigade) [2] 1) Salah Abu Sneneih, 60, from Jerusalem 2) Ayid al-Da’er, 27, from the Ramallah area August 13 – AM – The security officer of the...

w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 21:46 01/09/2004 Victims of the Be'er Sheva suicide bombings Tamara Dibrashvilli, 70, from Or YehudaTamara Dibrashvilli was on bus no. 6 on her way home from shopping with her daughter in preparation for a memorial service for her late husband Shalva, who died seven years ago. She is survived by her four daughters, all of them married. Two weeks ago, her family threw her a surprise party to mark her 70th birthday. On Tuesday, the daughters watched a video of the party while...

Our small group stands around the grave of Tehilla Nathansen, may her blood be avenged, bent over the books of Psalms in our hands. It is a year after her brutal murder. The sizzling sun beats down on our heads as our hot tears course down our cheeks. We could never have envisioned a scene such as this prior to the 22nd of Av (August 19th) of last year. Who would have dreamed that our very own closest and dearest would become "victims of terror"? Living with the nightmare of the Intifada for nearly four years never made it...

(IsraelNN.com) Two persons were wounded by gunfire earlier in the shooting attack near Maale Shomron. The victims were transported in light condition to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. Security officials report that five vehicles were hit by terrorist gunfire. It remains unclear if the shots were fired from a stationary position or passing vehicle.

(Lamentations 1:16) 'For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; because the comforter is far from me, even he that should refresh my soul; my children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.' (Lamentations 2:11) Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people; because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city. In yet another murderous and heinous Palestinian Arab sponsored terror attack last Sunday (5/2/04), a pregnant mother and her...

(IsraelNN.com) 2002 - 21:04 - 15 dead and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing attack in the Sheffield Pool Hall in the new Rishon L'Tzion industrial area. (HAMAS) 2001 - IDF naval commandos apprehended the Santorini on its way from Lebanon towards PA Gaza, laden with weaponry. The boat was apprehended out of Israeli territorial waters. 2000 - At about 14:15, Yaakov Manzor (9) and his brother Yitzhak (17) were stabbed in the chest and abdomen by a lone attacker in their home at 310 Lubovitz Street in the Armon HaNatziv section of capital. 1998 – An Arab man...

A painfully moving meeting took place yesterday between Boaz Shabo of Itamar, who lost his wife and three children in a terrorist attack in 2002, and David Hatuel of Katif, who lost his wife and all four children in a similar attack three days ago. Boaz said that David asked him, "How am I supposed to get up in the morning?" Boaz's response: "You get up to nothing... But your obligation is to recover and get stronger... Tali [your wife] is looking at you from above, spurring you on to continue." Shabo lost half his family when a Palestinian terrorist...

What children in Gush Katif routinely call "Trance, technopop, Mozart and popcorn," the sometimes symphonic sounds of machine-gun fire, tanks, IDF jets and plain old gunfire, yielded something that even these hardened young soldiers of the settlements could barely cope with: the death of five community members. As the Hatuel family was shot point-blank by Palestinian terrorists on their way to a Likud polling station on Sunday, most of the 250 children of the Atzmona elementary and junior high school for girls were canvassing neighborhoods across Israel. Three of Tali Hatuel's daughters, Hila, 11, Hadar, nine, and Roni, seven, were...

"On Friday my daughters drew me a picture, and on it they wrote: daddy we are proud of you," David Hatuel said at the funeral for his wife Tali, and daughters Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, Merav, 2. Tali was eight months pregnant. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral in Ashkelon for the slain family. They were were shot dead Sunday after two terrorists opened fire at Israeli cars traveling near the Kissufim Crossing at the entrance to the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip. The five were laid to rest 6.30 pm on Sunday at the...

On the eve of Remembrance Day, Cheryl Mandel's phone has been ringing with people saying, "I'm thinking of you today." It's been almost a year since her son, Lt. Daniel Mandel, 24, was killed while searching for terrorists in Nablus. Setting aside a national day to remember fallen heroes is important, said Mandel. But for her family, which includes four other children, mourning happens, 24 hours a day, every day. "Maybe in 10 or 15 years, it will be that these days are harder for us," said Mandel of Alon Shvut. Now, she said, every day is hard and...

(IsraelNN.com) A delegation of 60 members of the Friends of the MDA in the US arrived in Israel today to celebrate its 56th Independence Day and will meet with the injured from terror attacks over the last three years and with the MDA teams that saved their lives. The hosts and the guests will visit MDA stations throughout the country which were established thanks to their donations over the 56 years of the State. Despite the tense security situation and the serious threats of attacks, members of the Association of the Friends of MDA in the US have come to...

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting on the Middle East on Monday at the request of Arab nations following Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi on Saturday, and a major policy announcement Wednesday by U.S. President George W. Bush. Arab nations planned to ask the 15-nation council to adopt a resolution condemning the killing of Rantisi, said Arab League envoy Yahya Mahmassani. Rantisi died after an Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a car in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has threatened 100 revenge attacks in retaliation. Diplomats said the Council would issue a statement condemning...

Esther Zaga marvels at the miracle that saved her and her six children from death at the hand of a terrorist, even as she mourns for her husband Ya'acov (Kobi), 40, buried Sunday afternoon, after he was killed in the shooting attack on their home Friday night in Avnei Hefetz in Samaria. "God gave him to me, God took him from me," said Zaga, an Argentinean immigrant. "I had the privilege of being his wife," she said, hugging her children, as she spoke to reporters before heading to the funeral in Petah Tikva. "Thank God, there were many miracles. He...