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"Israeli mourners gathered in Haifa on Tuesday for the funeral of members of the Gershovitz family killed in a reported Iranian missile strike. Footage shows crowds attending the procession, religious officiants reciting prayers, and mourners placing wreaths by the gravesides. "In one day, in one moment, a whole family is gone: father, mother, and his partner. This is not an event that happens every day, even in a city like Haifa, which is accustomed to casualties in wars to which we are used," said Member of Knesset Ze'ev Elkin. "Suddenly, in one moment, we lost all of you. It is a terrible tragedy. There were so many more things you planned that you wanted to celebrate and do, that you looked forward to," added family member, Olga. Rescue teams said they had recovered the bodies of four members of the Gershovitz family from the rubble on Sunday. They were identified as an elderly couple, their son, and his wife. The wider war between the US, Israel and Iran continues, with thousands reported killed and wounded in strikes and counter‑strikes across the region. United States President Donald Trump set a hard April 7 deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which carries about one-fifth of the world's oil, threatening strikes on its energy infrastructure if it refused. On Truth Social, he said "a whole civilisation will die tonight <...> I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will." The US reportedly hit more than 50 'military targets' on Iran's main oil export hub, Kharg Island. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added that he was intensifying strikes on what he called the Iranian 'terror regime', while Iranian media reported attacks on bridges, an airport, a petrochemical plant, and power lines. Tehran stated it would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz for 'empty promises', warning that attacks on its power plants could plunge much of the region, including Saudi Arabia, into darkness and that, if the conflict escalated further, its Houthi allies in Yemen might close the Bab al‑Mandab strait, another key economic shipping route."
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