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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

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The body of a griffon vulture in its cliffside nest in the Judean Desert in southern Israel March 2024. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
March 10, 2024, 6:07 pm
Three endangered griffon vultures found dead in southern Israel, poison suspected
Parents and chick thought to have eaten carcass treated with anti-inflammatory drug; fourth bird from struggling population dies after hitting electric line
By Sue Surkes
Feral dogs from the Gaza Strip seen near to Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel. (Nimrod Cohen)
February 13, 2024, 8:10 pm
Feral dogs from Gaza enter Israel, compounding nature authority’s war woes
Ending 2023 with NIS 150 million deficit, Israel Nature and Parks Authority has one worker in Hamas captivity, 310 serving in the IDF reserves, 118 evacuated from their homes
By Sue Surkes
A griffon vulture is released into the wild in the Negev highlands in southern Israel, after being marked and fitted with a radio transmitter. (Yuval Dax, INPA)
October 4, 2022, 12:11 pm
Conservationists release 64 vultures equipped with radio transmitters
Israel Nature and Parks Authority hopes Jewish new year will be better than last, when 12 of the endangered birds were poisoned
By Sue Surkes
Rodent poison left in a baby formula container in the puppet corner of a kindergarten in central Israel. (Ministry of Environmental Protection)
June 20, 2022, 12:12 pm
Pest control company fined NIS 30,000 for leaving rodent poison in kindergarten yard
Poison was left in baby formula container; children unharmed thanks to teacher’s vigilance
By Sue Surkes
Scren capture from video of a dead griffon vulture found in the Judean Desert, October 27, 2021. (Srugim)
October 27, 2021, 4:52 pm
Three more dead vultures found in Judean Desert, bringing poisoning toll to 12
Nature and Parks Authority says two dead dogs also discovered; one of the birds had been fitted with a radio transmitter; all corpses to be examined
By Sue Surkes
One of nine dead vultures shown next to the carcass of a goat in the Judean Desert in what the Israel Nature and Parks Authority suspects is a malicious poisoning event, October 24, 2021. (Eyal Ben Giat, INPA)
October 24, 2021, 6:09 pm
9 vultures found dead, in another blow to endangered population
Nature and Parks Authority suspects malicious poisoning after corpses located next to dead goat in Judean Desert
By Sue Surkes
Ketem, in better times. (Courtesy, Moran Ajami)
February 14, 2021, 4:04 pm
Post-lockdown outing ends in poisoning deaths of pet dogs
Nature and Parks Authority probing whether Ketem and Gulliver died from land-based poison or water drunk from Besor River in southern Israel
By Sue Surkes
In this photo taken from a video published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks down stairs in a hospital in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning says his condition improved enough for him to be released from the facility. The Charite hospital in Berlin said Wednesday Sept. 23, 2020 that after 32 days in care, Navalny's condition "improved sufficiently for him to be discharged from acute inpatient care." (Navalny Instagram via AP)
October 1, 2020, 6:10 pm
Russia’s Navalny accuses Putin of being behind his poisoning
Kremlin denies any part in incident, which German Chancellor Merkel called attempted murder
By David Rising and DARIA LITVINOVA
This file photo taken on July 20, 2019, shows Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny speaking with journalists during a rally to support opposition and independent candidates after authorities refused to register them for September elections to the Moscow City Duma, in Moscow. (Maxim ZMEYEV / AFP)
September 3, 2020, 5:03 pm
Kremlin denies poisoning opposition’s Navalny, warns against ‘rush to judgment’
Calls mount for international action after Germany confirms traces of nerve agent Novichok in hospitalized Putin critic
By Michael MAINVILLE
Hadarim Prison in the Sharon area, central Israel, on July 23, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 11, 2020, 8:40 am
Convicted murderer accused of smuggling cyanide into prison — report
Inmate serving life said to have told guards where lethal chemical hidden, in bizarre ploy for reduction in 26-year sentence
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Two Italian explosive police experts walk their sniffer dogs on the stairs of the sanctuary of Madonna di Bonaria in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (AP/Pier Paolo Cito)
November 28, 2018, 4:27 pm
Palestinian arrested in Italy for plotting to poison town’s water supply
Police say suspect linked to Islamic State, planned to put ricin or anthrax in Sardinian town’s water; cousin arrested in September on suspicion of plotting to poison Lebanese army
By Federico Maccioni and ToI Staff
Illustrative -- A cargo ship is seen between Iranian city port of Bandar Abbas and Qeshm island in the strategic water way of Persian Gulf, on Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
October 19, 2018, 4:27 pm
Crew of Iranian cargo ship poisoned, 3 seamen die — report
Ambassador claims the vessel was carrying cereals from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan; no specification of what the toxic substance was or whether foul play suspected
By AP and ToI Staff
Former Russian military intelligence Colonel Sergei Skripal attends a hearing at the Moscow District Military Court in Moscow on August 9, 2006.(AFP/Kommersant Photo/Yuri Senatorov)
April 6, 2018, 4:52 pm
Ex-spy Skripal ‘improving rapidly’ after poisoning, hospital says
Former Russian agent hit in attack in UK no longer in critical condition, health officials say
By AFP
Illustrative: Stray dogs. (JDMaddox/ iStockphoto, Getty Images)
January 4, 2018, 8:24 am
Video of poisoned stray dogs sparks outcry in Lebanon
President Michel Aoun posts photograph of himself with pet dog as interior minister orders inquiry
By AFP
Shahar Abecassis, an Israeli taxi driver, escaped an assassination plot hatched by his ex-wife, an Israeli expat living in Oklahoma, July 7, 2017. (Screenshot/Channel 10)
July 7, 2017, 10:56 pm
Israeli expat’s former husband who escaped hit plot says he fears for his life
Shahar Abecassis says ex-wife, an Oklahoma woman who allegedly took out Craigslist ad to hire assassin amid custody battle over child, ‘is crazy’
By ToI Staff
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