Tag: hamas attack

Israel’s war budget leaves top scientists in limbo

By Ilan BEN ZION BEIT DAGAN, Israel, March 27, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli scientist Ellen Graber has spent years researching ways to save chocolate crops from climate change. But with the government slashing spending to fund the war in Gaza, her project is one of hundreds now hanging in the balance. Graber’s research had already been hit by the war — she had to abandon her cacao plants when the area where they were grown […]

Israel’s Hamas attack survivors find solace underwater

By Ilan Ben Zion EILAT, Israel, Jan 2, 2024 (AFP) – Deep under the Red Sea, a passing Israeli warship could barely be heard as Yamit Avital held her breath and dived, her mind briefly cleared of the trauma of the October 7 Hamas attacks. “There’s a kind of tranquility to the sea, in the deep,” Avital said after she emerged from 20 metres (66 feet) under the aquamarine waters of the Gulf of Aqaba, […]

Brazil’s Lula says Israel response ‘as grave’ as Hamas attack

Brazil’s president on Monday accused Israel of “killing innocent people without any criteria” in the Gaza Strip, deeming its actions there “as grave” as the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas. “After the act of terrorism provoked by Hamas, the consequences, the solution of the state of Israel, is as grave as that of Hamas,” said Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at a ceremony in Brasilia welcoming Brazilians and their families who had […]

Foreigners killed, missing or abducted in Hamas attack

Dozens of foreigners have been killed, injured or taken hostage during a surprise attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas that has left 900 people dead in Israel. Many of the missing foreigners were at an electronic music festival in the southern Israeli desert, at which scores of revellers were massacred. Here is what we know so far: – Thailand: 18 dead, 11 hostages – Eighteen Thais have been killed, nine have been […]