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Families of women killed at WA music festival sue Live Nation

The wrongful death lawsuit claims event organizers and security had “inadequate, unreasonable, and egregiously deficient conduct and security." GEORGE, Wash. — The families of two women who were shot and killed during a music festival in 2023 at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the event organizer Live Nation and its subsidy company, as well as the security companies who worked the event.  Brandy Escamilla, 29, […]

todayApril 12, 2024 1

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‘Nothing is moving:’ Families’ anger grows in Israel as hostages mark 100 days in Hamas captivity

CNN  —  For the families of those seized by Hamas, Sunday marks a grueling milestone. The hostages have been held for 100 days by the militant group – and while some families have had proof of life, others still don’t know their loved ones’ fate. A hostage release deal agreed between Israel and Hamas in late November ended after six days, with more than 100 freed. There’s been little to […]

todayJanuary 14, 2024 4

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‘Just look us in the eye’: Israeli hostages’ families arrive at Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem office | Israel-Hamas war

“I am wounded and bleeding. Mummy, I think I’m going to die,” were some of the last words Romi Gonen, 23, said to her mother, Meirav Leshem Gonen, after Hamas stormed southern Israeli towns and kibbutzim on 7 October.Leshem Gonen, 54, could hear shooting during the frantic 40-minute phone call but tried to comfort her daughter, who was at the Supernova music festival, saying: “Everything will be OK” and “You’ll […]

todayNovember 18, 2023 3

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9 bereaved Israeli families bring ICC war crime, genocide complaint against Hamas

The families of nine Israeli victims of the October 7 Hamas massacre have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for suspected war crimes. Lawyer Francois Zimeray, who is representing the families of the victims, said in a statement on Friday that the families also want Hamas prosecuted for genocide, and for the ICC to issue an international arrest warrant for its leaders. On October 7, the terror […]

todayNovember 3, 2023 1

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Families of hostages call for exchange of Hamas prisoners for hostages – Israel News

Israel should consider the release of all the Hamas prisoners in exchange for Hamas freeing all the kidnapped Israelis it holds in Gaza, representatives of the kidnapped said at a rally in Tel Aviv Saturday night after a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.“All of us here saw the tanks going into Gaza, and we are very worried," said Merav Leshem Gonen, who read a statement from the families […]

todayOctober 28, 2023 10

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‘I want him back’: Families of Israeli hostages demand government save them | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Tel Aviv, Israel – Miri Benami tells Al Jazeera she was worried when she could not get through to her son, Yosef Ohana, on October 7. He was at the Supernova Sukkot gathering, and she had heard that Hamas fighters attacked the trance music festival when they infiltrated southern Israel that day. After trying his phone several times, she eventually reached his friend, who had been with Yosef when the […]

todayOctober 25, 2023 3

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Families of Israel music festivalgoers are beginning to learn their loved ones are among the dead

For four days Hannie Ricardo held out hope that her daughter Oriya was in hiding after Hamas terrorists descended upon a music festival in the Israel desert on Saturday morning, killing hundreds."That's what kept me going," Ricardo said Wednesday in a telephone interview."I sat with her boyfriend's mother and we planned their wedding," she said, describing how she passed the endless days since she learned her daughter was missing. On […]

todayOctober 11, 2023 3

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Catholic families flock to Appaloosa Music Festival: ‘An encounter with God’

Twenty-eight different bands and performers performed during the festival. Though the performances were not explicitly Christian, the event still helps to build something one performer, Ben-David Warner, called “Catholic culture.” A North Virginia-based musician, Warner is the director of sacred liturgy and music at St. Charles Borromeo parish in Arlington, Virginia. He also leads the folk-acoustic group the Ben-David Warner Band. Warner said that in America “we don’t have a […]

todaySeptember 17, 2023 7

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