Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends wedding of soldier who reported for duty following launching of Hamas was against Israel.

A short while ago, IDF soldiers identified and killed a terrorist in the area of Kibbutz Kissufim. The soldiers are continuing searches in the area.

<p>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken commented in a joint statement with Prime Minister Netanyahu: "We will confront what is worst in humanity with what is best. We will provide an alternative to the vision of nihilism and terror presented by Hamas. That is what we will do - standing wth Israel, working together with its people, and all those in this region who remain committed to a vision of a more peaceful, integrated, secure, and prosperous Middle East."<br /> </p>

Sirens sound in Mavki'im, Ashkelon, Yad Mordechai, and Netiv Ha'asara.

<p>The family of an EMT and ambulance driver who secured the nature party on Saturday morning was killed in the massacre.</p><p>The family of Awad Darawsha, from the village of Iksal, received a short time ago a notification that their son, who was employed securing the party in southern Israel, was murdered and not kidnapped to Gaza.</p>

According to Gazan reports, Yusef Abu Marzuq, the brother of senior Hamas official Musa Abu Marzuq, was eliminated in an IDF strike.

Bodies of 854 civilians murdered by Hamas have been recovered, but it is more difficult to identify them than to identify fallen soldiers.

Eliya Levental took down four terrorists even before he left his home. 'That's what gave us time to get organized,' he recalls.