Looking After the Needs of Oct. 7’s Canine Victims

Hamas’s massacre in Israel killed many dogs and left 2,000 of them abandoned. Israelis stepped up to rescue the animals and foster them.

Shalom Peretz (L) with Roni Gilo (2nd L), Eden Kogan (2nd R), (R) Michal Gilo, and Peretz's dog Sky, whom the Gilos cared for following Mr. Kogan's rescue of the German shepherd. The dog was reunited with the Peretz family on March 9, 2024, in Shokeda, Israel. Dan M. Berger/The Epoch Times.

SHOKEDA, Israel—The massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, which took the lives of more than 1,200 Israelis, also took a toll on man’s best friend.

Dogs were among those killed by Hamas terrorists that day in their raid against Israel’s communities near Gaza.