Wednesday
Yom Reva’ee
28 Tishrei 5785
October 30 2024
UPDATE 4:00 PM ISRAEL TIME
Prayers Needed Urgently!
The family of “Abitar Menachem ben Zehava” asks that you pray and read psalms that their son be healed. He is currently in critical condition and on a ventilator following complex surgeries as a result of being wounded in southern Lebanon. In the words of the family: “Tear open the gates of heaven for his treatment and the treatment of all the wounded in the IDF.”
The October Death Toll
80 Israelis have been killed in battle or murdered in terror attacks during the month of October:
33 IDF soldiers have fallen in southern Lebanon.
19 IDF soldiers have fallen in Gaza.
4 IDF soldiers were killed in a drone strike on an AFB in the Golan.
3 IDF soldiers were killed by Hezbollah missiles on the Lebanese border.
2 IDF soldiers were killed by a drone strike from Iraq.
1 Border Policewoman was murdered in a terror attack in Beersheva.
1 Policeman was murdered in a shooting attack on Road 4.
1 IDF solder died in an operational incident in the Gaza envelope.
7 Israeli civilians were murdered in Hezbollah missile attacks: 2 in Kiryat Shmona, 2 in Majd Al-Krum, 1 in Rayon, 1 in Akko, and 1 in Ma’alot.
7 civilians were murdered in a Palestinian terror attack in Jaffa/Tel Aviv.
1 civilian was murdered in a stabbing attack in Hadera.
1 civilian was murdered in a run-over attack in Gilil.
May The Memories of All Of These Be For A Blessing
Rescuing Soldiers
Since the beginning of the war, the IDF Medical Corps, Unit 669, and IAF rescue helicopters have been providing advanced, life-saving medical care under fire on the battlefield. The forces have evacuated over 200 injured soldiers from the battlefield in the northern arena, and over 1,600 injured soldiers from the southern arena.
On The Ground in Gaza
There has been considerable outrage over the fact that 14 IDF soldiers have been killed in Jabaliya by walking into booby trapped houses or being hit by anti-tank missiles while in a house.
People wonder why all of northern Gaza is not razed.
On The Ground in the North
The IDF/IAF focus of attacks today has been and continues to be Baalbek.
*Hezbollah missile barrages today so far today:
15:18 Tzfat, Rosh Pinna; 15:00 Upper and Lower Galilee; 14:52 Katzrin, Kedmet Zvi; 13:22 Kiryat Biyalik; 09:46 Metulla; 08:55 Misgav Am; 08:02 Asher; 06:19 Bethlehem of Galilee; 06:17 Hadera, Emek Hefer; 05:39 Shlomi, Asher; 05:13 Rosh HaNikra; 04:34 Nahariya; 02:44 Kiryat Shmona, Tel Hai; 00:54 Kahol.
*Hezbollah missile “land destruction”
From the KKL:
Since the beginning of the war, 230,000 dunams (about 57,000 acres) of open areas and forests have been burned. Hardest hit has been the upper Galilee and Golan Heights where 80% of the destruction has occurred.
The forests that have suffered the most damage are the Biriya forest, the Baal Shem Tov forest, the Ramot Naftali forest, the Gush Chazon forests, The Golan Heights, the Gilboa Forests, the Beit Keshet Forest, the Achihud Forest, the Segev Forest, the Hanita Forest, the Mitzvah Forest, the Tefen Forest and the Beit Hamek Forest. KKL professionals in the forestry department estimate that it will take between five and seven years to restore the damage.
*From the IDF Spokesman today:
“The IDF continues to eliminate the senior members of the terrorist organization Hezbollah all over Lebanon: yesterday the deputy commander of the Radwan force, Mustafa Shehadi, was killed. This elimination constitutes another harm to the capabilities of the Radwan force to promote and carry out terrorist operations against the IDF forces and the Israeli rear on the northern border, and in particular the plan to conquer the Galilee. In his previous positions, Shehadi was in charge of operations in Radwan during the fighting in Syria between 2012-2017 and in addition he managed the unit’s combat in southern Lebanon. The Radwan unit is the ground unit of Hezbollah that aims to penetrate the territory of Israel, and occupy areas near the northern border.”
And so it goes at this hour in Israel . . .
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.