News about Isaac Herzog

'I had to come here today to close a chapter,' says Nova survivor Yovel Sharvit Trabelsi from the site of the massacre. The 27-year-old returned to Re'im for the first time today since the love of her life was shot dead in front of her eyes here - exactly one month after their wedding day. She was trapped under his body for five hours, forced to listen as terrorists raped a woman and executed her metres away. Yovel was left so traumatised she was unable to get out of bed, but she made a promise to her late husband that she would become a 'lioness' for him - just as he wanted. As part of her quest she put on a powerful display at a fashion show for Nova survivors last year covered by the Daily Mail.

They are marking one year since Hamas militants' surprise cross-border attack killed about 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage. The vicious attack sparked a war that has devastated the Hamas-ruled Gaza strip, fueled bloodshed across the Middle East and ignited protests all over the world. Today people met to remember the around 100 hostages that remain in captivity, although many of them are feared dead. The attack, on a major Jewish holiday, shattered Israelis' sense of security and left the world facing the prospect of a major conflict in the Middle East. Israel responded by waging a war against the Hamas militants in Gaza, where the fighting has killed over 41,000 people and displaced around 1.9 million.

Videos on social media show the sirens ringing out around the city as reporters at the scene report multiple explosions in the sky as missiles were intercepted. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said approximately five projectiles launched from Lebanon were identified to be crossing into their territory, but they were shot down by the IAF (Israel Air Force) and the rest fell in open areas. The IDF released a map of the siren locations on social media and said: 'Following the sirens that sounded in central Israel, several projectile launches were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Details are under review.' It comes after Israel launched further strikes on Hezbollah's 'intelligence headquarters' in Beirut, Lebanon, in the past hour.

In a new threat broadcast this evening, Abu Obeida (inset), the spokesperson for Hamas' s armed wing, said in a statement: 'We choose to keep up the fight in a long war of attrition, one that is painful and costly for the enemy.' He also warned that scores of people taken hostage into Gaza on October 7 last year were enduring a 'very difficult' situation, saying the 'psychological and health condition of the remaining hostages has become very difficult'. Meanwhile Hamas backers Iran have hailed October 7 as a 'turning point in history' of Palestinian struggle, a week after the Islamic Republic launched around 200 missiles in its second direct attack on Israel.

A rocket fired by Hezbollah across Israel's northern border slammed into the city of Haifa south of Tel Aviv overnight, with security footage showing the moment the projectile erupted in a ferocious explosion in a quiet residential street. Hours later, more rockets soared over Israel's southern border and impacted targets in Tel Aviv and elsewhere as Hamas sought to wreak havoc a year on from one of the darkest days in Jewish history since the Holocaust. Israeli President Isaac Herzog began the day with a minute of silence at 6:29am - the moment Hamas' cross-border insurgency started - at the site of the Nova music festival near Re'im where heavily armed Hamas fighters killed at least 370 people. But minutes later the service was marred by air raid sirens as Hamas declared it launched projectiles at the 'enemy gatherings' just a few kilometres from the border with Gaza, as well as at Tel Aviv. Images emerged later this morning showed civilians and rescue workers inspecting damage at various buildings caused by rockets or falling shrapnel, while videos showed smoke trailing from craters near Israel's cultural and commercial capital.

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President Isaac Herzog began the day with a minute of silence at 6:29am at the site of the Nova music festival near Re'im where heavily armed Hamas fighters killed at least 370 people.

President Isaac Herzog began the day with a minute of silence at 6:29am - the moment the attack started - at the site of the Nova music festival near Re'im where heavily armed Hamas fighters killed at least 370 people. Families of those killed attended the memorial site. Many were seen breaking down as Herzog declared: 'A year has passed since life came to a halt, the skies darkened, and all of us witnessed the monstrous cruelty of the enemy that sought to bring destruction upon the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and Israeli society. We are all still in pain, and we seek to make space for national mourning, for the tears over the terrible disaster that struck us,' he said, adding that the world 'must support Israel' to bring peace. Ceremonies and events are planned across Israel and in cities around the world to mark the anniversary of the unprecedented attack by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, which claimed more than 1,200 lives.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog (inset) said on the anniversary of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7: 'A year has passed since life came to a halt, the skies darkened, and all of us witnessed the monstrous cruelty of the enemy that sought to bring destruction upon the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and Israeli society.' 'We are all still in pain, and we seek to make space for national mourning, for the tears over the terrible disaster that struck us,' he said in a statement. It comes as the IDF released never-before-seen footage of the attacks, showing Israeli soldiers fighting Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Re'im on the morning of October 7. The video clips show a civilian treating an injured soldier as well as a Hamas fighter shooting at the drone filming from above. While some soldiers can be seen running around the kibbutz during the Hamas attack, others were filmed lying on the ground without moving.

Herzi Halevi told his troops in a statement: 'A year has passed, and we have defeated the military wing of Hamas [...]. We have dealt a severe blow to Hezbollah, which has lost all of its senior leadership.'

Sergeant Shira Chaya Soslik, 25, was killed by shooter Ahmed Suliman Al-Ukbi, 29, an Israeli citizen, when he opened fire at a bus station before targeting a McDonald's and a coffee shop in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, local media reports. Soslik, a member of the border force, 'fell during an encounter with a terrorist in an attack that occurred today at the central bus station in Beersheba', according to police statement. The ambulance service earlier said a severely wounded woman in her twenties - Soslik - was being treated at the scene before she succumbed to her injuries. Al-Ukbi was killed by cops at the scene, but police forces from the Southern District remained at the shooting site while they searched for accomplices, saying that 'the situation is still active.'

A woman has been 'executed' during a suspected terror attack which left 10 more injured in the the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. The shooter, named locally by the Israel Hayom as Ahmed Suliman Al-Ukbi, 29, an Israeli citizen, had opened fire at a central bus station before targeting a McDonald's and a nearby coffeeshop before police arrived. The ambulance service earlier said a severely wounded woman in her twenties was being treated at the scene before she succumbed to her injuries, as security forces remain on high alert ahead of the anniversary of Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. The assailant was killed by cops at the scene, but police forces from the Southern District remained at the shooting site while they searched for accomplices, saying that 'the situation is still active.' A witness at the scene told N12 News he saw soldiers fire at the assailant, who media reported was a member of the Bedouin minority in Israel's Negev desert.

A huge fireball lit up the sky in Beirut as Israeli bombing on Lebanon continues with over 30 strikes made on one target just a day before the anniversary of the October 7 massacre. Terrifying video footage captured the moment an orange blaze erupted above Lebanon's capital with reports suggesting it may have hit a petrol station, according to a map provided by the Israeli military. Lebanon's official National News Agency said the Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut was hit by more than 30 strikes overnight, which were heard across the city, with smoke still seen billowing from the site after dawn. Israel's military said it 'conducted a series of strikes on a number of weapons storage facilities' and infrastructure, stressing it had taken 'numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians'. In the Sabra area, near the southern suburbs, dozens of people, some carrying bags on foot and others on motorbikes, fled one of the most intense bombardments of the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference the leadership candidate told members that Islamist terrorism 'should never, ever be appeased'. It came after Hezbollah, the Iran-backed group based in southern Lebanon, was targeted by an attack on its pagers and walkie-talkies that killed dozens of people and wounded around 3,000. They included  many fighters but also many civilians. Israel has appeared to deny involvement with the fatal incident, with its president Isaac Herzog saying he 'rejects out of hand any connection' to the operation. But it is widely believed to have been behind the attack.

The mission was years in the making and culminated with the Israeli prime minister's visit to New York, designed to 'trick' Nasrallah into thinking he was safe. The intense bombing of Beirut began just three hours after Mr Netanyahu gave a speech at the United Nations on Friday afternoon in which he vowed to continue the fight against the 'terror organisation'. Israeli's prime minister gave the go-ahead to the IDF's 'unprecedented' heavy bombardment of the Lebanese capital during a call to defence minister Yoav Gallant, who remained in Tel Aviv. Shortly after 5pm, several missiles rained down on the Hezbollah HQ, located under residential buildings in Beirut, where Nasrallah was thought to be located.

Hezbollah leaders gathered for the funeral of a terror commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday. The funeral of Ibrahim Aqil, the head of Hezbollah's military operations and acting commander of the Radwan Force took place on Sunday after he was killed in a blast said to have left 37 dead, including three children and 15 other commanders. Images from the procession that was held in the southern suburb of Dahieh in Beirut, show hundreds of attendees, many wearing military uniforms and carrying the flag of the Iran-backed military group. Supporters could be seen carrying the assassinated leader's photo, as well as Palestinian, Iranian, and Lebanese flags while a song about 'being martyred on the way of Jerusalem' played in the background. A statement by the Israel Defence Forces said Aqil, who was in his early 60s, had died alongside other Radwan commanders ­during a meeting being held in an underground bunker.

Isaac Herzog has denied any Israeli involvement in in this week's exploding pager and walkie talkie attacks and said the country is not interested in being at war with Lebanon. Speaking on Sky News on Sunday morning, the Israeli president warned that Israel is in a 'dangerous situation' and that there is 'clearly the potential of escalating dramatically'. The comments come just days after a series of attacks in which pagers and walkie talkies used by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously - killing at least 39 and leaving a further 3,000 injured. Israel had made no comments regarding their involvement in the fatal attacks before this morning, where the president said he 'rejects out of hand any connection to this or that source of operation'. 'There are many enemies of Hezbollah out there, quite a few these days. Hezbollah has been choking Lebanon, destroying Lebanon, creating havoc in Lebanon again and again and again. We are here simply to defend ourselves. That's all we do,' he added.

Several of the six Israeli hostages who were slaughtered by their Hamas captors in Gaza last month attempted to fight off their killers, their families have reportedly been told by the IDF. Israeli Channel 12 News reported that IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari briefed some of the devastated families of the six who had their lives cruelly snatched on the details of their captivity and how they were executed. Hagari informed the families of what are believed to be the initial findings of the IDF's investigation into the brutal killings, and showed them footage taken from inside the Rafah tunnel where they were held hostage and murdered. The IDF believes the six hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin - an Israeli-American - Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Carmel Gat, 39, Almog Sarusi, 26, Alex Lubnov, 26, and Master Sergeant Ori Danino, 25, were killed around 10 days ago - just a day before the IDF discovered the tunnel. 'Several of the six are assessed to have defended themselves and struggled with those who shot them,' it adds.

Breathtaking footage showed the shooter - reportedly an Austrian national with Bosnian heritage named Emrah I. - stalking the streets close to the two buildings in the area of Briennerstrasse and Karolinenplatz. A wood-stock weapon, thought to be a Mauser-type repeater rifle, was clearly seen sporting a large fixed bayonet below its barrel in the hands of the shooter who was seen running along the pavement wearing a dark top and maroon trousers after arriving on the scene in a car sporting Salzburg licence plates. The man, believed to be just 18 years of age, fired several shots at police posts close to the Israeli consulate building located just a few metres away from the Munich Documentation Centre - the former Nazi party headquarters which is now dedicated to addressing the city's troubled past. Bavaria's state interior minister Joachim Herrmann confirmed the teen was shot by armed officers and subsequently died from his injuries.

Three of the six hostages who were found dead in a Gaza tunnel on Saturday were set to be released in a prisoner exchange deal on Sunday, a senior Hamas official has claimed. 'Some of the names of the captives announced as found by the ( Israeli ) occupier... were part of the list of hostages to be released that Hamas had approved' in a potential exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel , the unnamed official stated. The hostages' remains were recovered Saturday 'from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area' after the group had spent over 11 months captive after being snatched on October 7, as three were set for freedom in just a matter of days. 'Hersh, Carmel and Eden were all on the list of hostages set to be released in the July 2 ceasefire proposal presented by Biden. We could have saved them,' the official said. Military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the hostages were 'brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists' shortly before being discovered by Israeli troops - potentially just one or two days before being found.

The BBC has been branded 'shameless' after providing a platform to a Palestinian politician who celebrated Hamas ' October 7 massacre by calling it 'a glorious day'. Mustafa Barghouti, the general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative party made an appearance on BBC Radio 4's World at One on Wednesday after Israel launched a large-scale attack across the West Bank which left nine Palestinians dead. But the news service has been blasted for interviewing him on national radio after Barghouti had made remarks on the day of the October 7 surprise attack, telling Al-Jazeera Qatar: 'Today is a glorious day for the Palestinian resistance and people'. On the day of the mass offensive, Hamas gunmen stormed the Supernova music festival in southern Israel before claiming the lives of 1,200 and taking 251 civilians hostage. 'The resistance paid with interest for the attacks of the terrorist settlers and the attacks against the al-Aqsa mosque. It paid with interest for those who normalise [their relations] with the occupation,' he had continued.

'This is a decisive moment - probably the best, maybe the last, opportunity to get the hostages home, to get a ceasefire and to put everyone on a better path to enduring peace and security,' Blinken said as he met Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The top US diplomat said President Joe Biden had sent him 'to get this agreement to the line', and added that it was essential no last-minute mishaps were made. 'It is time for it to get done. It's also time to make sure that no one takes any steps that could derail this process,' Blinken said ahead of a planned meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today on his ninth visit to Israel since October 7. 'We're working to make sure that there is no escalation, that there are no provocations, that there are no actions that in any way could move us away from getting this deal over the line, or, for that matter, escalating the conflict to other places, and to greater intensity.' Blinken's push to finalise a ceasefire deal came off the back of yet more tragedy in Gaza, where an Israeli strike on a home in Deir al-Balah killed a woman and her six children, one of which was 18 months old and five of which were quintuplets. 'The six children have become body parts. They were placed in a single bag,' the children's grandfather, Mohammed Awad Khatab, told reporters.

Pro-Palestine campaigners are reportedly planning to stage a protest when Israel men's football team face Mali at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday night. The game is due to take place at the Parc des Princes and Susanne Shields from French activist group Europalestine has told The Guardian that a peaceful protest will be held from the stands against the 'genocide' in Gaza. Posters have already been put up in Paris ahead of the Games saying 'No Olympics for Israel' amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

This is the moment IDF forces in Gaza swept in to rescue Noa Argamani from Hamas captivity in a daring raid before returning her safely to Israel. Dramatic headcam footage shows Israeli special forces breaching a compound with assault rifles and finding the 26-year-old, telling her 'Noa, everything is alright. We're taking you home'. Israeli troops rescued Noa and three other hostages after 245 days in the beleaguered Gaza Strip in the largest and most successful operation of the war last week.