Thursday, November 27, 2008

Kol Yisrael Areivim. Terror in India

24 hours later....12:56 PM The ZAKA organization volunteers who flew to India from Israel have been asked to enter the Beit Chabad building. The operation has not finished, and the fate of Chabad's Shaliach Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg is still unknown.

Pictures and Videos of the India CounterTerror Unit going into the Beit Chabad, here.

Israel Radio Channel 2 Miki Gourdus reports that he has heard from India reports that Gavriel and Rivka are still alive. Let's hope he's right! (1:19 PM)

Shabbat Shalom...

Jameel.




Update: 2:51 PM Reports from India are conflicting. Sky News reports the terrorists are demanding to negotiate with the Indian government over the release of hostages. Mumbai's a mess.

Update: 1:40 PM. :-(

Update: 12:07 India Counter Terror Unit operating in the Taj Mahal hotel, with over 100 hostages, including Israeli diamond merchants. Explosions heard in the hotel...

11:37 AM As I write this, the India counter terror unit is operating inside the Beit Chabad in Mumbai (Bombay) India, trying to free the hostages, including 6 Israelies (unsure if this number "6" includes the Chabad Shaliach Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg).

Initial reports say that the Gavriel and Rivka are unconscious, but alive, and therefore, they really need Chasdei Shamayim to pull through.

Your good thoughts, prayers and tehillim can help.
YNET: Report: 6 Israelis held hostage in Mumbai

(Video) Terrorists seize Chabad offices in Indian city, reportedly hold six Israelis hostage. Ultra-Orthodox organization officials say emissary, his wife unconscious. Local commando unit reports one gunman killed, four remain in building. Rabbi's son, nanny seen leaving place safely. At least 10 sites attacked overnight; 101 people killed, 314 injured
India News reports over 900 hospitalized.

Reports indicate that the "official" numbers are much worse than being reported; While YNET writes about 314 injured, the real number is much higher.

CNN reports that this is the largest Jihad terror attack since 9/11.


Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד

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Mumbai - Outrage. Anger. Pain. Tears.


No words.


What can we even say?


How can we fathom a two-year-old who won’t see Ima again ad ki yavo Shilo?


How can we comprehend two ehrliche mashgichim catching a simple maariv on business who will never come home?


And how can we even begin to understand the loss of the kedoshim, Rabbi and Rebbetzin Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg, who lost their own lives after a holy career of giving of their own lives? And before 30?


Ribbono shel Olam…


Today, we are all Toldos Aharon Yitzchok Chasidim. Today, we are all Israeli. Today, we are all Chabad. No distinctions. Just Jews.


Perhaps an even bigger tragedy is that it took this tragedy to bring us together.


We might not know what to say. But now we know what to do. Stick together.


Because there was a little house, in a corner of the world most of us never heard of, where Ahavas Yisroel lived.


Now, that Ahavas Yisroel lives on. In our houses. In our hearts. It must. The victims would have it no other way.


What to do? Carry on.


Because if we become afraid, they won. If we are crushed, they won. If we remain depressed, they won. If we let this destroy our lives, they won.


If we do the opposite, we win. And they lose.


So let’s win. Let’s continue. Let’s march forward. Let’s continue doing everything we always did.


But let’s do more than that. Let’s give more tzedakah. Let’s learn more Torah. Let’s be more tolerant, less dismissive, of each other.


Let’s fight darkness with light.


We did it for the past two days. We can, we must, continue.


Above all, let us not be afraid. Let us hold our heads high. Let us walk the streets victorious. We are Jews. We are one. We are proud. And they can never destroy us.


They have death. We have life. They await the Gates of Hell. We embrace the gifts of Heaven.


They have Al Qaeda. We have “al tira.”


Forward! March!

nmf #7 said...

Boruch Dayan HaEmet- the Holtzbergs seem to have been murdered, along with R' Teitelbaum and the other mashgiach.
Hashem Yekom Damam.

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