Evacuation

WATCH: IDF, Soroka, Joseftal hospitals carry out first-ever ECMO patient evacuation

In a first-of-its-kind operation, the Israel Air Force and medical teams from Soroka and Joseftal hospitals airlifted a young woman connected to an ECMO life-support system from Eilat to Beersheba.

A military helicopter and medical staff from Soroka and Joseftal hospitals evacuate a patient connected to an ECMO machine, February 14, 2026.
Armed Taliban security personnel keep guard beside the closed gate of the zero point border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan at Spin Boldak district in Kandahar province on October 12, 2025.

Tens of thousands flee Pakistan’s Tirah Valley amid military action warnings

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the hilltops of the al-Rihane mountain in southern Lebanon on January 9, 2026.

After warning civilians of imminent strikes, Israel hits Hezbollah infrastructure in south Lebanon

Wu Chien-Fu, director of Seismological Center speaks about the recent earthquakes in April during an interview in Taipei, Taiwan April 29, 2024; illustrative.

Southeastern Taiwan shaken by 6.1 magnitude quake, no immediate reports of damage


At a Dead Sea hotel, refugees from Kibbutz Be’eri count their dead and grieve

There are so many funerals and shivas, some far from the Dead Sea, that members cannot possibly attend them all. 

 A HOUSE destroyed by fire during the October 7 massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri.

US readies plans for mass evacuations if Gaza war escalates - Washington Post

Such an evacuation could be "more difficult than any previous operations in recent memory," the Post reported, potentially involving Air Force aircraft or Navy warships. 

 U.S. nationals and their immediate family members wait before leaving Israel on a ship headed for Cyprus, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Haifa, Israel, October 16, 2023.

Holding hands in music

A jazz fundraiser aims to provide desperately needed medical assistance for the war victims.

 FLUTIST MATTAN KLEIN with Belgian Ambassador to Israel Jean-Luc Bodson on bass

Reuniting pet dogs with owners or finding them fosters or adopters

There are bewildered dogs and cats whose owners were kidnapped, murdered – or who disappeared and ran away from destroyed homes and have nowhere to go.

Dog injured following rocket attacks

Birthright Israel provides relief for victims of missile attacks

This initiative took place in the wake of the missile attacks affecting the southern and northern regions of Israel.

 People queue as Israelis are evacuated from the southern town of Sderot, near Israel's border with Gaza, October 15, 2023

Israel's southernmost city ready to shelter Israeli evacuees in 'tent city'

The new arrivals have swelled the city to over double its regular population, with all hotels, hostels, and rental apartments filled to the brim.

 Yachts are seen docking at the Eilat Port

Israel evacuates Kiryat Shmona, town of 20,000 near Lebanon

Kiryat Shemona, barely over a mile from the Lebanese border, has been a main target for Hezbollah rocket fire in past wars.

 Rooadblocks in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel. October 13, 2023.