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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Druze

Nechama Shaina Langer, center, organizer of a healing day retreat in Majdal Shams. From left, Chayals Angels founder Tasha Cohen; Megan Sellway; Naela Fakher Eldin, mother of Alma Fakher Eldin, who was killed in the July 27 Hezbollah attack; and Naela's mother, Adele Abu Jabal on September 13, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
Reporter's notebook
Women travel to Majdal Shams to help mothers of children killed in Hezbollah attack
By Diana Bletter
Aware of the need for mental health support in the Druze town that lost 12 children, volunteers cross a cultural divide, offering alternative treatments to ease grief
Nechama Shaina Langer, center, organizer of a healing day retreat in Majdal Shams. From left, Chayals Angels founder Tasha Cohen; Megan Sellway; Naela Fakher Eldin, mother of Alma Fakher Eldin, who was killed in the July 27 Hezbollah attack; and Naela's mother, Adele Abu Jabal on September 13, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
September 17, 2024, 8:21 am
Women travel to Majdal Shams to help mothers of children killed in Hezbollah attack
Aware of the need for mental health support in the Druze town that lost 12 children, volunteers cross a cultural divide, offering alternative treatments to ease grief
By Diana Bletter
Bnei HaGolan VeHaGalil Football Club's youth soccer team. (Bnei HaGolan VeHaGalil FC)
August 5, 2024, 3:38 pm
Broken hearts club: Northern Druze soccer club mourns teen members blown up by Hezbollah
Killed in the Majdal Shams rocket attack, Ameer Abu Saleh, Johnny Ibrahim, Hazem Abu Saleh were part of an intensely symbolic soccer team that is left bereft but remains resolute
By Shaul Adar
Noor Ibrahim, Rena Ibrahim and Tulei Abu Jabal (left to right), cousins of one of the victims, at a memorial to those killed in the July 27 attack on Majdal Shams. (Deborah Danan/JTA)
August 2, 2024, 8:49 am
In Majdal Shams, neighbors embrace Druze mourning children killed in rocket attack
Residents say they’ve felt an outpouring of love and support as Israelis have collectively grieved the 12 dead kids, speaking of the strike as a national tragedy
By Deborah Danan
A man stands near a damaged gate after a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field that killed 12 children in Majdal Shams on July 28, 2024 (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
July 30, 2024, 11:09 pm
Experts say all evidence shows Hezbollah behind Majdal Shams strike that killed 12
Weapons researcher says jagged shrapnel removed from wounded children is consistent with Falaq rocket; soccer field fence blown in direction indicating rocket came from the north
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits at the scene of a missile attack on a soccer field in the northern Druze village of Majdal Shams that killed 12 children two days earlier, July 29, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
July 29, 2024, 5:12 pm
Netanyahu met by angry crowd on visit to site of deadly rocket strike in Majdal Shams
As locals call for him to leave, prime minister pledges a ‘harsh response’ against Hezbollah after 12 children killed in Golan Heights on Saturday
By Lazar Berman
Mourners carry the coffin of Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a July 27 Hezbollah rocket attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams, on July 29, 2024 (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
July 29, 2024, 1:51 pm
Funeral held for 12th child killed in Hezbollah rocket strike on Golan soccer field
Relative of 11-year-old Gevara Ebraheem says tragedy has ‘shaken our hearts’; Gallant: No difference between Jewish kids killed in south on Oct. 7 and Druze kids killed in north
By ToI Staff
Elders and mourners attend the funeral of Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a Hezbollah strike from Lebanon two days earlier, in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan on July 29, 2024. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)
July 29, 2024, 1:15 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 29: Day 297 – Golan’s Druze demand reprisal for 12 killed by Hezbollah
Political reporter Tal Schneider on yesterday’s security cabinet meeting, hostage negotiations and Knesset’s recess; reporter Canaan Lidor reports from a mourning Majdal Shams
By ToI Staff
Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 27 2024. (Courtesy)
July 29, 2024, 2:44 am
Boy thought missing identified as 12th victim in deadly Majdal Shams rocket attack
Authorities determine Gevara Ebraheem, 11, unheard from since attack, was killed by Hezbollah missile strike on soccer field in Golan Druze town a day earlier
By ToI Staff
Druze women mourn by a coffin during a funeral of a child killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, that Israeli authorities said killed 12 people including children in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
July 28, 2024, 6:12 pm
Anger and grief mix as Majdal Shams buries 10 children killed in rocket strike
‘Lebanon should burn for this,’ says one resident amid calls in Druze town for IDF to strike back hard against Hezbollah, and for Israel to do more to protect northern residents
By Canaan Lidor
Members of the Druze community carry the body of late spiritual leader Sheikh Abu Zain Al-Din Hassan Halabi, during his funeral in the Golan Heights border town of Majdal Shams on October 30, 2020, despite a nationwide ban on mass gatherings due to the coronavirus. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
July 28, 2024, 4:43 pm
Majdal Shams massacre highlights Solomonic predicament of Golan’s Druze community
Torn between historic allegiance to Syria and increasing acceptance of Israeli rule, community finds itself unwillingly caught up in bloody conflict after Hezbollah attack
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Mourners carry the coffin of a child killed in a Hezbollah rocket strike from Lebanon a day earlier, during a mass funeral in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on July 28, 2024. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)
July 28, 2024, 1:56 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 28: Day 296 – Drums of war after Hezbollah rocket kills 12 children
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian on the deadly rocket attack on Majdal Shams and IDF readiness for escalation; intelligence that led to the recovery of five hostages’ bodies
By ToI Staff
Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Nasser Kanaani speaks during a press conference in the capital Tehran on December 5, 2022. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
July 28, 2024, 12:34 pm
Iran warns of ‘consequences’ as Israel says Hezbollah ‘crossed all red lines’
After Hezbollah rocket kills 12 Israeli children, Israel vows ‘heavy blow’ and politicians call for all-out war; Tehran warns ‘adventures’ in Lebanon could spiral out of control
By Agencies and ToI Staff
(Top row, L-R) Ameer Rabeea Abu Saleh, 16, Iseel Nasha’at Ayoub, 12, Hazem Akram Abu Saleh, 15, Milad Muadad Alsha’ar, 10 (Middle row, L-R) Alma Ayman Fakher Eldin, 11, Naji Taher Alhalabi, 11, Johnny Wadeea Ibrahim, 13, Yazan Nayeif Abu Saleh, 12 (Bottom row, L-R) Fajer Laith Abu Saleh, 16, Venes Adham Safadi, 11 Nathem Fakher Saeb, 16, and Gevara Ebraheem, 11, who were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack on Majdal Shams on July 27, 2024.
July 28, 2024, 10:55 am
‘Massive tragedy’: Children killed in Hezbollah rocket attack on soccer field are named
Northern council head says at least 5 victims from same family; hospitals say several children still in serious condition; Foreign Ministry: Hezbollah ‘crossed all lines’
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Local residents comfort each other as they gather at the site of a Hezbollah rocket attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in northern Israel, July 27, 2024.(Jalaa Marey/AFP)
July 28, 2024, 5:06 am
‘Shredded to pieces’: Druze community grieves after Hezbollah strike kills 12 children
Eyewitness says bloody carnage on Majdal Shams soccer pitch was reminiscent of October 7; Druze leaders in Lebanon, Syria condemn attack but steer clear of mentioning Hezbollah
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Israeli rescue forces and locals at the site of a deadly Hezbollah rocket attack on a soccer field in the Druze northern Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams, July 27, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
July 28, 2024, 3:43 am
Hezbollah will pay ‘heavy price,’ PM vows after strike on Druze town kills 12 children
Netanyahu says murder of Druze kids won’t ‘pass in silence’ as security officials meet to discuss best options; Gallant tells Druze leaders Israel ‘will strike the enemy hard’
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
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