Israeli officials say the original death toll of 1,400 included unidentified corpses now believed to be Hamas fighters.
Israel has revised downwards the death toll from an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on October 7, to approximately 1,200 people against a previous government estimate of 1,400.
“Around 1,200 is the official number of victims of the October 7 massacre,” spokesperson Lior Haiat of Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday in a written statement, according to the Reuters news agency. Read More...
The Niabi Zoo welcomes its newest inhabitants: Three African Painted Dogs (Lycaon pictus.) This species is a native of the grasslands of East Africa, and has never been housed at Niabi Zoo before, a news release says.
African Painted Dogs are highly intelligent and social keystone species in Africa. Like North American Wolves, they play a critical role in the health of their ecosystem. And like our wolves, they have been persecuted by humans and are now an endangered species. Read More...
Telling his side of the story. When Fessy Shafaat entered The Challenge: Double Agents house, he revealed that he is single following his July 2020 split from his former Big Brother 20 roommate Haleigh Broucher. However, on Wednesday, January 6, the 23-year-old alleged that they had gotten back together before he went on the show — a claim he’s denying.
“We were not together,” Shafaat, 29, told Us Weekly exclusively on Friday, January 8. Read More...