19 Dec 2023, Samaria: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin came to Israel to meet with Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The two are pictured below in thei joint press conference on Dec 18 in Tel Aviv.
Gallant: Hard to avoid civilian casualties in an ‘incredibly complex battle space’ and that civilian casualties are hard to avoid.
Each day one hostage is featured on the cover of the Jerusalem post, on the top left corner. Today, day 74 of the war, we see Eden Yerushalmi, age 24. Eden’s surname, Yerushalmi, means “Jerusalemite;” her family has been known for innumerable generations as being from Jerusalem. Obviously her first name is the Garden of Eden (pronounced “AY-den”.
