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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

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Hamada Iqtiet. (Courtesy)
May 1, 2023, 9:55 pm
6-year-old Palestinian boy mauled to death by lion in private Gaza zoo
Police say Hamada Iqtiet climbed fence and reached opening in cage before lion attacked him
By AP
Illustrative: Little three month old elephant Leev Ma Rie walks under her mother at the zoo in Cologne, Germany, October 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
January 7, 2023, 1:25 am
German zoo receives first installment of $26m gift from Holocaust survivor’s widow
Elizabeth Reichert left funds in her will for the Cologne Zoological Garden, explaining her husband Arnulf ‘wanted to give the money someplace where it would do good’
By David I. Klein
Three newborn lion cubs are displayed at Nama zoo in Gaza City, August 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
August 14, 2022, 1:07 am
Days after airstrikes and rocket fire, 3 newborn lion cubs go on display in Gaza
Veterinarian says birth successful despite loud sounds of explosions, which causes stress to wild animals
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israelis demonstrate outside the Hai animal park in Kiryat Motzkin on July 28, 2022. (Courtesy, Campaign to Save the Animals at Hai Animal Park, Kiryat Motzkin)
July 29, 2022, 8:22 am
Animal lovers protest against zoo amid clash of narratives over animal welfare
Agriculture Ministry, Nature Authority, open probe into Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin after social media post shows elephants apparently clinging to wall for shade
By Sue Surkes
Screen capture from video of a man who entered the crocodile enclosure at the Ramat Gan Safari, Febrauary 17, 2022. (Twitter)
February 20, 2022, 1:04 pm
Selfie-seeker enters crocodile enclosure at Ramat Gan zoo
Safari park says it filed a police complaint about man seen in video posing with the toothy reptiles
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: An orangutan at the Oklahoma City Zoo (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
July 17, 2021, 4:41 pm
Escaped orangutan causes stir at Ramat Gan zoo
Ape exits enclosure through newly planted vegetation; officials say she was never close to visitors’ area and did not present danger
By ToI Staff
Members of the gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, California are seen in their habitat on January 10, 2021 (Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Safari Park via AP)
January 12, 2021, 9:14 am
In 1st known primate case, gorillas test positive for virus at San Diego Zoo
8 gorillas believed to have virus and several have been coughing; appears infection came from member of zoo’s team
By JULIE WATSON
The monkey that was recovered by police several days after being stolen from a zoo in Kiryat Motzkin, in July 2020. (Israel Police)
July 21, 2020, 8:34 pm
Three men arrested for stealing monkey from zoo in northern Israel
Primate, worth thousands of shekels, back home after being recovered by police
By ToI Staff
A sedated lioness is pictured in a cage at a zoo in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, during the evacuation by members of the international animal welfare charity 'Four Paws' of animals from the Palestinian enclave to relocate to sanctuaries in Jordan, on April 7, 2019. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
September 22, 2019, 7:51 pm
Gaza reopens zoo despite horrifying conditions for animals
Critics say owners want to bully animal welfare organizations into giving them thousands of dollars to free the animals into their care
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian children look through the bars of a cage at the declawed lioness "Falestine" at the Rafah Zoo in the southern Gaza Strip on February 12, 2019. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
February 13, 2019, 4:54 pm
In the Gaza Strip, pet a lion, declawed
Zoo in Hamas-run Palestinian enclave tries to draw visitors by letting them play with 14-month-old Falestine; animal rights activists condemn the situation
By AFP and ToI Staff
Chimpanzee family. (iStock by Getty Images/ apple2499)
February 10, 2019, 5:15 pm
Chimps use branch to make ladder, escape Belfast Zoo
Breakout is second in as many weeks, after runaway red panda found in garden near Northern Ireland zoo
By AP
A Palestinian youth holds a two-month-old lion cub while children watch at the zoo in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, December 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
January 17, 2019, 10:10 pm
Gaza zoo owner blames winter storm for lion cub deaths
Four cubs found dead in small, dilapidated zoo in Rafah, in southern part of the Strip
By AP
The Conservators Center says a worker has been killed by a lion that got loose from a locked space, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2018, in Burlington, N.C. The facility was founded in 1999 and is in Burlington, about 50 miles northwest of Raleigh. (WTVD/ABC11 via AP)
December 31, 2018, 1:44 am
Worker, 22, two weeks into her job, killed by lion at N. Carolina conservatory
Lion shot and killed after fatal attack on Alexandra Black; not clear how it managed to escape locked space, get into enclosure that was being cleaned
By AP
Tami the Hippo is pictured at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem on July 4, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 16, 2018, 7:21 pm
Oldest hippopotamus in captivity dies at 59 in Jerusalem zoo
Biblical Zoo says it is ‘a little like losing a friend,’ after Tami dies in her sleep ‘surrounded by lots of love and respect’
By AFP
Illustrative: A lion mother with her cubs at the zoo in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on May 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Boris Roessler)
June 1, 2018, 2:32 pm
Lions, tigers and a bear escape a German zoo
A jaguar is also among the animals that managed to break out of the Eifel Zoo in Luenebach, leading authorities to instruct residents to stay indoors
By AFP
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