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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Eshkol Regional Council

President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal pay their respects on October 9, 2024 at a memorial to five security team members who fell fighting Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, at Moshav Mivtachim, close to the Gaza border in southern Israel. (Maayan Toaf / GPO)
February 12, 2025, 7:02 am
Just 138 yards too far from the Gaza border, towns are denied post-Oct. 7 state support
As their immediate neighbors receive rehabilitation funds from the national Tekuma Directorate, four communities are suffering the same effects from the war, without the support
By Sue Surkes
Agricultural waste. (Matauw, iStock by Getty Images)
December 5, 2024, 10:22 am
Israel to get 1st facility to recycle organic waste, produce gas and fertilizer
Discount Bank, environment ministry to fund plant near Gaza border that will use sealed containers of microbes to break down 200 tons of household and agricultural waste annually
By Sue Surkes
Warrant Officer Zeed Mazarib, killed battling Hamas terrorists in the southern Gaza Strip, close to the border, on June 6, 2024. (Courtesy)
June 6, 2024, 5:08 pm
IDF soldier killed by terrorists trying to infiltrate Israel from south Gaza
3 Hamas operatives killed inside Strip by drone strike and tank shelling some 400 meters from border; slain soldier identified as tracker Zeed Mazarib, 34
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: Evacuated Kibbutz Be'eri residents at a Dead Sea hotel, October 20, 2023. (Arik Zamir/Flash90)
March 1, 2024, 9:36 pm
At 11th hour, government okays funds for continued evacuee hotel housing
Officials in Gaza border communities criticize decision, demand more funds, as residents, hoteliers furious over procrastination; still no return date for northern evacuees
By Canaan Lidor and ToI Staff
Gadi Yarkoni, head of the Eshkol Regional Council, attends a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 23, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
February 7, 2024, 1:03 pm
Southern mayors demand clarity from Netanyahu on whether residents can return safely
Eshkol Regional Council’s Gadi Yarkoni says proper resources needed if population expected to come back, wants PM to be honest on reality of ongoing security situation
By ToI Staff
The scene of a deadly car crash at Urim Junction in southern Israel, February 20, 2023. (United Hatzalah)
February 20, 2023, 8:37 pm
Four killed, including 2 toddlers, in car crash in south
All victims of crash, thought to be a head-on collision, are reported to be members of the same family; road death toll since start of year reaches 50
By Harry Roper
Moshe Etzion speaks before an image of his son, Ze'ev Etzion, who died from Gaza rocket fire in 2014. (Eshkol Regional Council)
August 8, 2021, 5:21 pm
Father dies by suicide on grave of son killed by Gaza rocket fire in 2014
Moshe Etzion, 88, takes his own life on anniversary of death of son Ze’ev, a local security chief in Kibbutz Nirim killed in the final hours of the war
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: A fireball lights up the night sky above buildings near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, as IDF planes hit a Hamas site in the Palestinian enclave, on June 17, 2021. (Screen capture)
July 2, 2021, 1:41 am
Israel bombs Hamas weapons factory in Gaza in response to arson balloons
After 2 weeks of quiet, incendiary balloons launched from Gaza start 4 fires in southern Israel, but do not cause major damage
By ToI Staff
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire caused from an incendiary balloon near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, on June 15, 2021. (Israel Fire Service)
July 1, 2021, 8:40 pm
After 2 weeks of quiet, arson balloons launched from Gaza start 4 fires in south
Firefighters gain control of blazes before they cause damage; new government has been quicker to respond to such actions, striking Hamas targets in Gaza in response
By ToI Staff
Palestinian men prepare to release balloon-borne explosive and incendiary devices toward Israel near Rafah, along the Israel-Gaza border, on August 21, 2020 (Fadi Fahd/Flash90)
August 27, 2020, 10:19 pm
Hamas: Truce talks have failed, Israel will receive ‘messages’ within hours
Report cites source in terror group saying Qatari envoy has left Gaza, ceasefire efforts collapsed due to Israeli insistence on ‘calm in return for calm’
By ToI Staff
A fireman seeks to put out a blaze caused by an arson balloon lofted from Gaza toward Israeli border communities on August 26, 2020. (Eshkol Regional Council)
August 26, 2020, 7:47 pm
Gaza arson balloons spark 33 fires in south while Qatar envoy still in Strip
Two incendiaries land inside communities, one near a playground where children were playing
By ToI Staff
An Israeli soldier extinguishes a fire in a field close to the southern kibbutz of Nir Am, near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 25, 2020, after it was set off by incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
August 26, 2020, 4:58 am
IDF strikes Hamas targets in southern Gaza after continued arson balloon attacks
Strikes come hours after Qatari envoy arrives in Strip bringing $30 million in cash, seeking to ease Israel-Hamas tensions
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinians receive financial aid from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, November 27, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
August 26, 2020, 2:54 am
Qatar envoy arrives in Gaza with $30 million in cash seeking to placate Hamas
Arson balloons from Gaza spark 29 fires in Israel Tuesday; airborne bomb launched by terrorists explodes in basketball court in Netivot, as escalation continues
By ToI Staff and Agencies
View of a fire near kibbutz Be'eri, caused by incendiary balloons launched from the Gaza Strip, on August 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 25, 2020, 10:14 pm
Arson balloons from Gaza spark 29 fires in Israel Tuesday
Airborne bomb launched by terrorists explodes in basketball court in Netivot, as escalation continues
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Smoke and flames rise in the distance after war planes belonging to the Israeli army carried out airstrikes over Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, on August 20, 2020. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
August 25, 2020, 5:17 am
IDF strikes Hamas targets in southern Gaza after continued arson balloon attacks
Hamas warns no end to Gaza violence until Israel completely lifts blockade; dozens of airborne devices cause at least 36 fires in southern Israel
By ToI Staff
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