His sister, Laura, also wrote: “Yesterday my dear brother Bernard was shot dead murdered by Hamas.”
Dozens of friends flocked online to pay their respects to Bernard and his grieving family.
Amanda Jayne Harris said: “Absolutely horrific to know that Bernard’s life was ended in this way. May your family know no futher sorrow and sending so much love to you and Colin. He spoke proudly of all of you. He lived on a beautiful Kibbutz.”
Charles Levine said: “So sad to hear this, I remember Bernard well from Shul and visiting your parents (and ‘uncle’ Norman) when I was little. I wish you, your mum, Colin, and all your families long life and only Simchas in the future. Baruch dayan ha’emet.”
Scotland’s first minister says his parents-in-law are “trapped” in Gaza, as he unequivocally condemned the attacks by Hamas in Israel.
Hamas, a Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist, militant, and nationalist organisation, which rules the Gaza Strip, moved across the border and invaded Southern Israel on Saturday. Fighters have since fired thousands of rockets into the country as the group announced the beginning of a new operation.
The Israeli military put the country on war alert and began striking targets in Gaza in response, setting the stage for what was likely to be a new heavy round of fighting between the bitter enemies. Since the launch of their latest attack, thousands of rockets have reportedly been launched into Israel.
Local reports suggest that the death toll nears 1,300 asa the battle rages on for a third day. The elusive leader of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, announced on Saturday the beginning of what he called “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm”.
A child is carried by its mother from the devastated ruins of their home in Gaza.
In the 1930s Germany ethnically cleansed the Jews. And today the state of Israel is going to ethnically cleanse Palestine.
With 2.5 million men, women and children hemmed in by Israeli soldiers with all electricity, gas, fuel, food, and medicine cut off and whilst military war planes blast civilian buildings you don’t need to be a genius to see the mass humanitarian holocaust underway.