A Houthi ballistic missile strike in the Palestinian village of Sa’ir. July 13, 2025. CREDIT: X/Twitter

The first ballistic missile fired against Israel in response to its strikes against Iran hit a Palestinian village in the West Bank, according to the Israeli military

The missile, fired by Yemen’s Houthi terrorist group, set off sirens across Israel on Friday evening as the country braced itself for an expected counter-attack from Iran. The missile impacted near Hebron in the southern West Bank in the Palestinian village of Sa’ir.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 49 ballistic missiles and at least 11 drones at Israel, according to Israeli military data.

This is not the first time that Iranian and Houthis attacks against Israel have resulted in damage and casualties in Palestinian villages.

The only fatality from Iran’s mass missile attack in October 2024 was a Palestinian man from Gaza. The man was killed in the West Bank village of Nu’eima, near Jericho by falling fuselage from an intercepted missile.

In Iran’s second attack in April 2024, a 7-year-old Bedouin girl was critically injured when shrapnel from a ballistic missile hit her family’s home in a Bedouin town near the Negev city of Arad. She was hospitalized for more than three months.

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Nova Music Festival Exhibit. Photo: NovaExhibition

A powerful exhibit memorializing the victims and survivors of the deadly Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack at the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel has opened in Washington, DC, offering visitors an intimate look at one of the most harrowing chapters in the Jewish state’s history through recovered artifacts, survivor testimony, and immersive multimedia displays. 

The Oct. 7 attack by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists on the Nova festival, part of a broader assault on southern Israel, left over 360 people dead and hundreds more injured, while 44 hostages were kidnapped. Overall, 1,200 people were murdered and 251 hostages were abducted during the onslaught, the deadliest day in Israel’s history and the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Beyond the numbers, several investigations and eyewitness accounts have revealed that the terrorists perpetrated rampant sexual violence, including mass rape and torture, at the festival and elsewhere in southern Israel during their rampage.

The Nova massacre, which took place during what was meant to be a celebration of peace and music, has since become a symbol of the human toll of the conflict. 

The new exhibit in Washington, DC, seeks not only to honor the memory of those lost but also to bear witness to the trauma endured by survivors and to foster international awareness of the event’s impact. Proceeds from the exhibit help fund activities for the Tribe of Nova, a nonprofit organization that helps facilitate the recovery of the estimated 3,500 Nova Music Festival massacre survivors and their families.

According to the Nova Exhibition website, the event “is presented as a way to empower visitors to responsibly explore & bear witness to the tragic events of Oct. 7 and its aftermath.”

Maya Izotcheev, a survivor of the Nova massacre, told The Algemeiner that she hopes the exhibit will draw more empathy toward the survivors and an understanding of the Israeli perspective. Izotcheev wondered why the survivors of the Oct.7 attacks have not received as much empathy as others who have endured such atrocities.

“Is it because we are Israeli, because we are Jewish?” she asked. 

However, Izotcheev stopped short of pointing to explicit antisemitism to explain the lack of outcry, arguing that a lot of “misinformation” about Israel has spread around the world.

The exhibit came to Washington, DC about three weeks after an anti-Israel activist murdered two Israeli embassy staffers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, as they were exiting a Jewish Museum event in the US capital. The double-murder has heightened security concerns surrounding the Nova exhibit. Guests must have their bags searched and walk through a set of metal detectors before entering.

Omri Rahoum, who lost three family members during the festival massacre — his pregnant sister, her fiancé, and his uncle — shared with The Algemeiner that survivors of the massacre have found solace in weekly therapy meetups. 

Rahoum also believes that the exhibit will allow visitors to “connect to the human side of the tragedy” and that the event serves “to honor those we lost, to protect their memory, and to share the beauty that was taken from us.”

“By stepping into the world of Nova — the music, the peace, the joy — and then seeing what was destroyed, visitors realize that this was not about politics, but about real people who were murdered while celebrating life,” Rahoum told The Algemeiner.

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Khalid Abdalla being introduced to speak on stage ahead of the Massive Attack headlining concert at the LIDO Festival in London’s Victoria Park on June 6, 2025. Photo: YouTube screenshot

An Israeli concertgoer received a full refund of his ticket to see the British group Massive Attack headline London’s LIDO Festival last week after complaining to festival organizers about the “really hostile” environment at the largely politicized, anti-Israel performance, the UK’s Jewish Chronicle reported.

The Israeli, whose identity was not revealed, told the JC he felt “ambushed and unsafe” during the show at London’s Victoria Park on June 6 as part of the two-week music festival. A longtime fan of Massive Attack, he attended the performance with four other British-Israeli friends.

“When we arrived at the festival in Victoria Park, we saw a lot of ‘Free Palestine’ pins and T-shirts. We didn’t make anything out of it,” the fan said. “I wanted to hear Massive Attack, as someone who grew up on their music. I had no idea about any of their political views … They lost me as a fan.”

Before Massive Attack began their performance, pro-Palestinian activist and “The Crown” actor Khalid Abdalla took to the stage to talk about Palestinian solidarity and lead the audience in chanting “free Palestine.” Abdalla, who was introduced as a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), claimed in his speech that the pro-Palestinian solidarity movement is “the civil rights movement, the anti-apartheid movement, [and] the anti-genocide movement of our time, and that is why so many Jewish people all over the world are at the core of this movement, fighting for a world in which ‘never again’ means never again for anyone, and in which this brutal Israeli occupation ends.”

Massive Attack also displayed on large screens by the stage a montage of anti-Israel videos, including real-life footage of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar – the mastermind of the deadly terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 – as he walks in a Hamas tunnel. Another video called for the release of convicted Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti.

“The concept of giving terrorists a stage is beyond me,” the Israeli music fan, who had friends murdered in the Oct. 7 attack, told the JC. “When we see Sinwar walking in the tunnels, it means we see our families and other Israelis in the tunnels. For us, it was glorifying him.”

The Israeli audience member said the crowd at the Massive Attack concert felt “really hostile,” so he and his group of friends ultimately decided to leave the set. During their exit, they met others who “also felt intimidated,” “scared” and “very threatened.”

In total, around 15 people exited the concert, the JC reported. They approached festival promoters, expressed their concerns, and gave their contact information. The Israeli man said later that same night, he received an email from promoters with an apology. He also received a full refund for his ticket to the LIDO festival, travel expenses, and the amount he spent on drinks at the venue.

The Israeli music fan accused LIDO Festival organizers of false advertising for not warning ticket holders about the political nature of the event.

“Massive Attack have a right to do the show as they want to, but the fact that no one told us PSC were going to be on stage – that it would be an orchestrated political event – it’s not about me being pro-Palestinian or not,” he said. “I didn’t know I was going to see propaganda on stage. It caught us off guard completely. It was about organizing a political event. Massive Attack and PSC were selling official merchandise, T-shirts designed for this festival, allowing PSC to be on stage, allowing them to put videos on the big screen – it’s not a fluke. It was well coordinated and organized.”

A Bristol-based band, Massive Attack has participated in a cultural boycott of Israel since 1999 and are longtime critics of Israel, regularly accusing the country of war crimes, apartheid, occupation, and genocide. In a released statement, they claimed videos shown at the LIDO Festival do not glorify or celebrate “any of the featured subjects,” and were taken out of context.

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