{"id":2065649,"date":"2023-10-12T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-families-have-now-gotten-the-worst-possible-news-biden-admin-announces-increased-us-death-toll-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T21:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:48:06","slug":"more-families-have-now-gotten-the-worst-possible-news-biden-admin-announces-increased-us-death-toll-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-families-have-now-gotten-the-worst-possible-news-biden-admin-announces-increased-us-death-toll-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin: More US Deaths in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmore-families-have-now-gotten-the-worst-possible-news-biden-admin-announces-increased-us-death-toll-in-israel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2065649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Increased US Death Toll in Israel: More Families Receive Devastating News<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-show-lockdowns-are-killing-more-people-than-the-virus\/\" title=\"How To Show Lockdowns Are Killing More People Than The Virus\">death toll<\/a> of Americans killed when Hamas terrorists \u2064stormed Israeli communities on Saturday has now\u200c risen to 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll start with the saddest of news. We can now update the \u200dnumber of Americans that we know have been killed to 27, and the number of unaccounted for stands \u200btoday at 14. We\u2019re obviously doing everything we can to support and\u200b inform the families,\u201d National\u200b Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said Thursday in a video<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1712520350993432783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> posted\u2063 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, sadly, five\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/heartbroken-american-living-israel-reveals-family-taken-hostage-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more families<\/a> \u200d have now gotten the worst possible \u2064news that any family can conceive of getting. And we\u2019re going to stay in touch with them as appropriate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSame goes for those family members of those \u200dwho are\u2062 unaccounted for.\u2062 And by \u2018unaccounted for,\u2019 we mean that. We\u200c don\u2019t \u200bknow where they are.\u200d They don\u2019t know where they\u200b are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is a heartbreaking\u2062 account of the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-families-have-now-gotten-the-worst-possible-news-biden-admin-announces-increased-us-death-toll-in-israel\/\" title=\"Biden Admin: More US Deaths in Israel\">heroic sacrifice made<\/a> by Deborah and Shlomi Matias to protect their teenage son from Hamas gunfire.  Their\u200b selflessness in the face of \u2064danger is truly commendable. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GazaConflict?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GazaConflict<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Israel?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Israel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hamas?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hamas<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0j1SeCc0rB\">pic.twitter.com\/0j1SeCc0rB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TGN (@Tgn8383) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tgn8383\/status\/1711377041743052846?\">October \u20629, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>American Deborah Matias and her husband Shlomi Matias <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/reporter-holds-back-tears-witnessing-1-10-residents-killed-hamas-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were killed<\/a> while she was on the phone \u2062with her father, Ilan Troen said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/09\/us\/us-victims-israel-gaza\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were on the phone with Deborah as she was killed,\u201d Troen said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Should Hamas be fully dismantled?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n<p>\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting this poll \u200centitles you to The\u2063 Western\u2064 Journal news updates\u200c free of charge. You may opt out \u200dat anytime. You also \u2063agree to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<p>\t\t\tYes: 100% (8 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 0%\">\n<p>\t\t\tNo: 0% (0 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\tfunction ffp_getCookie(cname)\u2064 {<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar name=cname +\u200c &#8220;=&#8221;;<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar decodedCookie=decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar ca=decodedCookie.split(&#8216;;&#8217;);<br \/>\n\t\t\tfor(var i=0; i <ca.length i var c=\"ca[i];\" while if return c.substring c.length function ffp_setcookie cvalue exdays d=\"new\" date d.settime expires=\"expires=\" d.toutcstring document.cookie=\"cname\" window.ff_poll_voted=\"false;\" voted_cookie_name=\"firefly_voted_3497233\" ff_poll_submit event event.preventdefault fireflypoll=\"jQuery(\" fireflypollcontainer=\"jQuery('#firefly-poll-container');\" pollformbox=\"jQuery('#pollFormBox');\" ffp_getcookie fireflypollcontainer.addclass to assign url here as it was defined only in firefly. firefly_ajax_url=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" posting=\"jQuery.post(\" jquery event.target the datalayer window.datalayer=\"window.dataLayer\" window.datalayer.push poll vote posting.done response response.success yes_el=\"document.getElementById(\" no_el=\"document.getElementById(\" yes_el.style.width=\"response.data.percents.yes\" yes_el.innerhtml=\"Yes: \" response.data.percents.yes response.data.votes.yes votes no_el.style.width=\"response.data.percents.no\" no_el.innerhtml=\"No: \" response.data.percents.no response.data.votes.no fireflypoll.remove pollformbox.hide document.getelementbyid fireflypollcontainer.removeclass else emailfield=\"document.querySelector(\" input emailfield.required=\"false;\" emailfield.style.display=\"none\" border: solid padding: margin-left: margin-right: margin-bottom: width: float: left background: border-radius: margin-top: padding-top: padding-bottom: padding-left: background-color: border-color: cursor: pointer lightgrey white-space: nowrap .firefly-poll-question font-weight: bold font-size: .firefly-poll-disclaimer max-width:><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were on \u200dthe phone the entire day with \u2064our grandson, Rotem, as he lay first under her body,\u2064 and then found a place to escape under a blanket in a laundry,\u201d \u200bTroen said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_2FB201FC-5FB0-FC88-9771-1552B49E51A6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"on\">\u201cThe brunt of the shot was borne by his\u200d mother. The terrorists who came, they\u2064 had explosives and \u2063blew up the front door to their house\u200d and then blew out the front door \u200dto their so-called\u200b safe room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rotem, 16, will recover from being shot in the stomach, his grandfather said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roey Weiser, 21, an Israeli-American soldier who saved the lives of 12 of his comrades after being attacked by \u200bterrorists at his base\u200b on Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1WSpbEXHxz\">pic.twitter.com\/1WSpbEXHxz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2063 News News\u2064 News \u2064(@NewsNew97351204)\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsNew97351204\/status\/1712106164656230440?\">October 11, \u200c2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_85E35664-7139-2E5B-3BF3-1B57D754E561@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Roey Weiser, 21, an American-Israeli serving with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mlb-star-shows-support-israel-subtle-addition-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israeli Army<\/a>, was at the Kerem Shalom border crossing and died there, Naomi Feifer-Weiser, his mother, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe died how he lived, by \u2064putting others first, and \u2063when his base was overrun by terrorists, he went on his own to divert their attention allowing others to escape. Because of \u200bhis bravery, at least 12 other soldiers are alive today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_4D466081-E3DE-F9F0-D7C1-1AF95C7788C4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">\u201cRoey lived his life to\u200d the\u200b fullest, almost always with\u200d a smile on his face,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was always looking \u200dfor\u2063 ways to help those around him, \u200dand before he\u200d was conscripted, \u200bhe \u2064was a volunteer firefighter who was always \u2063the first to jump into action when needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dr. Hayim Katsman, 32, was found dead in his apartment. His mother, Hannah Katsman, said he received his \u2063Ph.D. from the University of Washington\u2019s Henry M. Jackson \u200bSchool of International Studies in 2021: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mQFt3SW3lM\">https:\/\/t.co\/mQFt3SW3lM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 KOMO News (@komonews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/komonews\/status\/1711465314897322041?\">October 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hayim Katsman, 32, had received his doctorate from the University of Washington in 2021\u200b but chose to live in Israel to devote his life to \u2062making peace for\u2062 Israelis and Palestinians, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/10\/11\/americans-killed-israel-names-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0dissertation\u00a0was dedicated to \u201call life forms\u200d that exist between the Jordan River and \u200bthe Mediterranean Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katsman hid in a closet with a neighbor, Avital Alajem, when\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-biden-cnn-confirm-israeli-reports-horrendous-crimes-hamas-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrorists<\/a> hit his kibbutz. \u2063He was\u200c standing closest to \u200cthe door and took the\u200d bullets that were fired at the hiding\u200c place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was murdered,\u201d Alajem said. \u201cI was saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch p{margin:5px;}<\/p>\n<p><em><b>A Note from Our Founder:<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every morning,\u200b we at The Western Journal wake up and pursue our mission of giving you the important information \u200cyou need about what\u2019s happening in \u2064America.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>We \u2063can\u2019t \u2064do that without your help<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">America has been on the receiving end of \u200bfalse narratives. 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Brown<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Founder of The Western Journal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/families-now-gotten-worst-possible-news-biden-admin-announces-increased-us-death-toll-israel\/\">&#8216;More Families Have\u2064 Now Gotten the Worst Possible News&#8217;: Biden Admin Announces Increased US Death Toll in Israel<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How many Americans have been killed in the recent Hamas\u2064 attack in Israel?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Increased \u2063US Death Toll in Israel: More Families Receive Devastating\u200b News<\/p>\n<p>The death\u2063 toll of\u2064 Americans killed \u200dwhen Hamas terrorists stormed Israeli communities on Saturday has \u200dnow \u200crisen to 27.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fraud-alert-analysis-of-3000-counties-reveals-joe-biden-received-5-6-more-votes-in-counties-using-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"FRAUD ALERT: Analysis of 3,000 Counties Reveals Joe Biden Received 5.6% More Votes in Counties Using Dominion Voting Machines\">video posted<\/a> \u200con social media, National\u2062 Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby provided \u2062an\u2064 update on the tragic\u200b situation. He stated, &#8220;I&#8217;ll start with the saddest of news. We can now update the number of Americans that we know have been killed to 27, and the number of unaccounted \u2062for stands today\u200c at 14. We&#8217;re\u200d obviously doing everything we can to support and inform the families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kirby went on to express \u200dhis condolences to the families of the victims. He said, &#8220;Now, sadly, five more families\u200b have now gotten the worst possible\u200d news that any family can conceive of getting. And we&#8217;re \u200dgoing to stay in touch with them as appropriate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also addressed the \u200dfamilies of those who are still unaccounted for. &#8220;Same\u200d goes for\u200b those family members of those who are unaccounted for.\u2062 And by &#8216;unaccounted\u2062 for,&#8217; we mean that. We don&#8217;t know where they are. They don&#8217;t know where they are,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>One heartbreaking account that highlights the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">devastating impact<\/a> \u200bof this tragedy is the heroic sacrifice made \u200bby Deborah and\u2062 Shlomi Matias to protect their teenage son from Hamas gunfire. Their selflessness\u2062 in the face of danger is truly commendable.<\/p>\n<p>According to CNN, American Deborah Matias and \u2063her husband Shlomi Matias were killed while\u200c she was on the phone with her father, Ilan Troen. Troen sadly revealed, &#8220;We were on\u200b the phone with Deborah as\u200b she was killed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This \u2064tragic incident has led to a call for action. The \u200bquestion\u200b of whether Hamas should be fully dismantled has been raised. 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