TEL AVIV, Israel — The Washington Blade was on project in Israel from Oct. 4-14, 2024.
The Blade lined the primary anniversary of Oct. 7, and interviewed the cousin of a girl who Hamas militants killed after they kidnapped her and her sister-in-law. The Blade additionally interviewed the widow of a homosexual Israel Protection Forces soldier who spearheaded efforts to amend the nation’s Bereaved Households Legislation to acknowledge LGBTQ widows and widowers of fallen servicemembers.
Activists in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Be’er Sheva additionally spoke with the Blade.
Destroyed properties within the outskirts of Khan Younis, Gaza, in January 2024. (Courtesy picture)Layla, a homosexual bar in Tel Aviv, in an Instagram put up for an Oct. 1 occasion notes the Israel Protection Forces are “demilitarizing Lebanon.” The promotion features a image of long-time Hezbollah Secretary-Normal Hassan Nasrallah, who the Israeli Protection Power killed within the Beirut suburb of Dahieh lower than per week earlier. Iran on Oct. 1 launched almost 200 ballistic missiles in the direction of Israel in response to Nasrallah’s loss of life. (Picture courtesy of Layla’s Instagram web page)A public artwork show at Ben-Gurion Airport on Oct. 4, 2024, calls for the discharge of the hostages who stay within the Gaza Strip. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)A mural in Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 4, 2024.(Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)A boy performs a piano in Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 4, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)
Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 4, 2024. (Washington Blade video by Michael Okay. Lavers)The Blade couldn’t entry Al Jazeera’s web site in Israel.
The Israeli authorities in Could banned the Qatar-based community from working within the nation, and shut down its bureaus in East Jerusalem and Nazareth, a predominantly Arab metropolis in northern Israel. A choose in June prolonged the ban for 45 days. Israeli troopers on Sept. 22 raided Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah, the Palestinian capital, and ordered its closure for 45 days. (Washington Blade screenshot by Michael Okay. Lavers)
An Israeli Delight flag flies subsequent to a banner on a terrace in Tel Aviv, Israel, that requires the discharge of hostages within the Gaza Strip. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)Hilton Seaside in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 5, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)A bomb shelter close to Be’eri, Israel, on Oct. 5, 2024. Hamas militants on Oct. 7 killed three individuals from the close by Nova Music Pageant who took shelter inside. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)A part of the makeshift Nova Music Pageant memorial close to Re’im, Israel, on Oct. 5, 2024. Hamas militants on Oct. 7 killed 360 individuals on the all-night rave and took 40 different partygoers hostage. The Nova Music Pageant befell roughly three miles from the Israel-Gaza border. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)
The Nova Music Pageant memorial. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)Cats in Independence Park in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 6, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)A mural in Tel Aviv, Israel, notes Hamas continues to be holding Shiri Bibas and her two youngsters, Kfir and Ariel, hostage in Gaza. Kfir was 9-months-old on Oct. 7. His brother was 4-years-old. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)An anti-war sticker on a lightweight pole in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 6, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)KAN 11, an Israeli tv station, broadcasts from Kfar Aza, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2024. The kibbutz is without doubt one of the many kibbutzim close to the Israel-Gaza border that Hamas militants attacked on Oct. 7. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)
A juice stand on the intersection of Dizengoff Avenue and Ben-Gurion Boulevard in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)
Two males in Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, Israel, embrace whereas watching the Bereaved Households Memorial Service on Oct. 7, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)‘Pink alerts’ for ballistic missiles that Hezbollah launched from Lebanon on Oct. 7, 2024. The missiles focused an Israel Protection Forces base north of Tel Aviv. The IDF interceptions woke this reporter up at round 11 p.m. (Washington Blade screenshot by Michael Okay. Lavers)Yarmulkes on the market in Jerusalem on Oct. 8, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)Dome of the Rock above the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Oct. 8, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)Omer Ohana appears to be like an image of his fiancé, Sagi Golan, a homosexual Israel Protection Forces main who died combating Hamas militants in Be’eri, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023, A memorial service for Golan befell in Herzliya, Israel, on Oct. 8, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)A billboard overlooking the Ayalon Freeway in Tel Aviv, Israel, with a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu references Oct. 7 and says, “We gained’t overlook.” (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)Avenue artwork in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)A poster with Carmel Gat‘s face on it inside a duplicate of a tunnel within the Gaza Strip that was inbuilt Hostage Sq. in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, kidnapped Gat from Be’eri, a kibbutz close to the Gaza border. They killed her and 5 different hostages in late August. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)
Shortly after daybreak in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 12, 2024, because the nation marked Yom Kippur. (Video by Michael Okay. Lavers)Banners that hung from an overpass above the Ayalon Freeway in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 12, 2024, include footage of the hostages who stay in Gaza. Additionally they name for his or her launch and “bringing again hope.” (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)Fishermen alongside the Jaffa waterfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 12, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)The solar units over Hilton Seaside in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 13, 2024. (Washington Blade picture by Michael Okay. Lavers)
