BBC Newsnight/TwitterThe heartbroken mother of a man murdered by Hamas says she does not seek vengeance and called for Israel’s war to end. Michal Halev told the BBC she initially feared her 20-year-old child Laor Abramov—who lived in New Jersey until 2022, according to the New York Post—had been kidnapped after he attended the music festival attacked by gunmen on Oct. 7. But on Wednesday, soldiers and social workers informed her Laor was dead. “My child was murdered by these monsters,” Halev sa
By Alberto Moya, David Williams, Christina Zdanowicz, Chris Boyette, Sabrina Souza, Caroll Alvarado, Whitney Wild, Ryan Young, Bob Ortega and Mallika Kallingal, CNN
Michael Halev, whose son, former New Jersey resident Laor Abramov, 20, disappeared after the sneak attack on Israel by radical Islamic militants, pleads in a new video, "Stop all the wars."
A mother who shielded her son from gunfire, a “pro-peace” academic, young people who attended a musical festival and two brothers are among at least 30 Americans who have been killed in the warfare between Israel and Hamas, family members and officials say.