Our world in photos: October 7
- Brooklyn Eagle Staff
CALIFORNIA — Kicker’s dilemma: Green Bay Packers punter Daniel Whelan (19) grabs a high snap during the first half of an NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, in Inglewood, CA. The Packers sustained a third-quarter lead in the game to beat the Rams 24-19.
The Packers’ recently-signed, four-year, $67 million contract with Xavier McKinney is already paying off: He is the first safety-position player since the 1970 merger of the NFL and the AFL to intercept a pass in each of his first five games with a new team.
ISRAEL — Anniversary of an atrocity: An attendant walks through a mural with portraits of the victims at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, on the first anniversary of the attack, near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. During the anniversary, residents of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, which borders the fence into Gaza, reflect on the Hamas attack that killed 1,200 in this and nearby communities and took about 250 hostages, provoking the most recent conflict in the area, now entering its second year.
Only about 50 of Kfar Aza’s 1,000 residents have returned, reports the Associated Press.
ISRAEL — Anniversary of an atrocity: A woman looks at charred vehicles burned in the Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas militants outside the town of Netivot, southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. Also charred and left in rubble were houses burned by explosives, riddled with bullet holes during the prolonged battle.
Israel’s government plans to rebuild and, in the interim, is constructing prefabricated houses for residents in another kibbutz, Ruhama, about 15 kilometers (10 miles) away. Wishing to keep together as a community, about two-thirds of the residents have said they are willing to move into the temporary housing.
ISRAEL — Anniversary of an atrocity: People protest on the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel and call for the release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. One of the hostages, Aviva Siegel, was abducted from her home by armed Hamas militants but was later released as part of a ceasefire deal with the Israeli government and Hamas last November. She returned home to find her community destroyed, the Associated Press reported last week. Ms. Siegel’s husband, Keith, however, remains in captivity, and she is among those pushing for the release of their loved ones.
Siegel and the families of other hostages are protesting what they say is the Israeli government’s shifting its priorities away from securing the hostages to instead fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon.
ISRAEL — Anniversary of an atrocity: Senai Guedalia tidies the grave of her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Yosef Guedalia, who was killed one year ago, as Israel marks the first anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, at Mt. Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024. Around the world, vigils and commemorations took place in remembrance of the day.
Brooklyn’s synagogues and other venues held several commemorations over the weekend, including at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, on Sunday night, that several Brownstone Brooklyn Jewish centers co-sponsored, according to 1010 WINS News. Monday night, the Kings Bay YMHA is also holding a service of remembrance and resilience.
HAITI — Violence all over the world, here it’s the gangs: Doctors treat a man who was shot and wounded during armed gang attacks at Saint Nicolas hospital in Saint-Marc, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. Mass starvation is also being blamed on the gang violence, with nearly 6,000 Haitians starving and almost half the country’s population of 11 million-plus people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse as gang violence smothers life in the capital of Port-au-Prince and beyond, according to a report released last week.
The Associated Press reports that the number of Haitians facing crisis, emergency and famine levels of hunger increased by 1.2 million in the past year alone.
MASSACHUSETTS — Honors for Harvard professor: Gary Ruvkun, American molecular biologist, 2024 Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine, speaks with a reporter Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, at his home in Newton, MA. Ruvkin, who teaches at Harvard Medical School and conducted his research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, shares the prize with fellow American Victor Ambros, an MIT graduate. They discovered microRNA, tiny particles of genetic material that serve as on-and-off switches inside cells that help control what the cells do and when they do it. The scientists were originally interested in genes that control the timing of different genetic developments.
The study of microRNA leads to new approaches to treating diseases like cancer because it helps regulate how genes work in our cells, pointed out Dr. Claire Fletcher, a lecturer in molecular oncology at Imperial College London.
WISCONSIN — Showing sensitivity, Trump sings Barry Manilow’s ‘Feelings’ — NOT! Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a campaign rally at Dodge County Airport, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024, in Juneau, WI. Trump has visited Wisconsin four times in an eight-day period to woo the state’s 10 electoral votes. Absentee voting has already begun in Wisconsin, with in-person early voting set for Oct. 22.
Although Wisconsin’s results have been tight, a Republican nominee has only won the Great Lakes state once in 40 years — in 2016 — during Donald Trump’s first run for that office.
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