Israeli minister prays at flashpoint holy site as officials say 27 aid-seekers killed in Gaza

Israeli minister prays at flashpoint holy site as officials say 27 aid-seekers killed in Gaza

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) —A far-right Israeli ministervisited and prayed at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site on Sunday, triggering regional condemnation and fears that the provocative move could further escalate tensions. The visit came as hospitals inGazasaid 27 more Palestinians seeking food aid were killed by Israeli fire. With Israel facing global criticism overfamine-like conditionsin the besieged strip, Itamar Ben-Gvir's visit to the hillside compound threatened to further set back efforts by international mediators to halt Israel's nearly two-year military offensive in Gaza. The area, which Jews call the Temple Mount, is the holiest site in Judaism and was home to the ancient biblical temples. Muslims call the site the Noble Sanctuary. Today it is home to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam. Visits by Israeli officials are considered a provocation across the Muslim world and openly praying violates a longstanding status quo. Jews have been allowed to tour the site but are barred from praying, with Israeli police and troops providing security. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said after Ben-Gvir's visit that Israel would not change the norms governing the site. Ben-Gvir visited following Hamas' release of videos showing two emaciated Israeli hostages. The videos caused an uproar in Israel and raised pressure on the government to reach a deal to bring home from Gaza theremaining 50 hostageswho were captured on Oct. 7, 2023, in the Hamas-led attack that triggered the war. During his visit, Ben-Gvir called for Israel to annex the Gaza Strip and encourage Palestinians to leave, reviving rhetoric that has complicated negotiations to end the war. He raged against a video that Hamas released Saturday of 24-year-old hostage Evyatar David showing him emaciated in a dimly lit Gaza tunnel, and called it an attempt to pressure Israel. Ben-Gvir's previous visits to the site have prompted threats from Palestinian militant groups. Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian demonstrators in and around the site fueled an 11-day war with Hamas in 2021. Sunday's visit was swiftly condemned as an incitement by Palestinian leaders as well as Jordan, the Al-Aqsa Mosque's custodian, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Videos of hungry and suffering Israeli hostages The videos — released by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest militant group in Gaza — triggered outrage across the political spectrum. Tens of thousands rallied in Tel Aviv on Saturday urging Israel and the United States to urgently pursue the hostages' release after suspending ceasefire talks. Netanyahu's office said it spoke with the Red Cross to seek help in providing the hostages with food and medical care. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was "appalled by the harrowing videos" and called for access to the hostages. Right-wing politicians who oppose deals with Hamas said the videos reinforced their conviction that Hamas must be obliterated. "From here we need to bring a message and ensure that from today, we conquer all of the Gaza Strip, declare sovereignty over all of the Gaza Strip, take out every Hamas member and encourage voluntary emigration," Ben-Gvir said on a video posted on social media after his visit to the holy site. Deadly chaos around food distribution points Palestinians reported more deadly violence at aid sites Sunday, and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said a staff member was killed when Israeli forces shelled its office. Israel's military said it was reviewing the Red Crescent's claim. Hospital officials saidIsraeli forceskilled at least 27 Palestinians seeking food, and witnesses described facing gunfire as hungry crowds surged toward aid sites. Desperation has gripped the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts warn faces"a worst-case scenario of famine″ because of Israel's blockade. No aid entered Gaza between March 2 and May 19, and aid has been limited since then. Witness Yousef Abed described coming under indiscriminate fire and seeing at least three people bleeding on the ground. "I couldn't stop and help them because of the bullets," he said. Two hospitals in southern and central Gaza reported receiving bodies from routes leading to the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, including 11 killed in the Teina area while trying to reach a distribution point in Khan Younis. Three Palestinian eyewitnesses, including one traveling through Teina, told The Associated Press they saw soldiers open fire on the routes, which are in military zones secured by Israeli forces. Israel's military said it was not aware of casualties as a result of its gunfire near aid sites in the south. The United Nations says 859 people were killed near GHF sites from May 27 to July 31 and hundreds of others have been killed along the routes of U.N.-led food convoys. GHF says its armed contractors have only used pepper spray or fired warning shots to prevent deadly crowding. Israel's military has said it only fires warning shots. Both claim the death tolls have been exaggerated. GHF's media office said Sunday there was no gunfire "near or at our sites." More deaths from hunger Gaza's Health Ministry said six more Palestinian adults died of malnutrition-related causes over the past 24 hours, bringing the malnutrition-related death toll among adults to 82 over the five weeks that such deaths have been counted. Malnutrition-related deaths are not included in the ministry's count of war casualties. Ninety-three children have died of malnutrition-related causes since the war began, the ministry said. Israel has taken steps in the past week to increase the flow of food into Gaza, saying 1,200 aid trucks have entered while hundreds of pallets have been airdropped, but U.N. and relief groups say conditions have not improved. The U.N. has said 500 to 600 trucks a day are needed. Anger has led to protests overseas, including one in Australia on Sunday by thousands of people. About 1,200 people were killed in the 2023 attack that sparked the war and another 251 were abducted. Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed more than60,800 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. The ministry, which doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, is staffed by medical professionals. The United Nations and other independent experts view its figures as the most reliable count of casualties. Israel has disputed the figures but hasn't provided its own account of casualties. ___ Metz reported from Jerusalem and Magdy from Cairo. ___ Follow AP's war coverage athttps://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war

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Israeli minister prays at flashpoint holy site as officials say 27 aid-seekers killed in Gaza

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Fresh clashes break out in Syria as the interim government struggles to ease tensions

Fresh clashes break out in Syria as the interim government struggles to ease tensions

BEIRUT (AP) — New outbreaks of violence overnight into Sunday rocked Syria at two distinct flashpoints, straining a fragile ceasefire and calling into question the ability of the transitional government to exert its authority across the whole country. In the north, government-affiliated fighters confronted Kurdish-led forces who control much of the region, while in the southern province of Sweida, they clashed with Druze armed groups. The outbreaks come at a time when Syria's interim authorities are trying to maintain a tense ceasefire in Sweida province afterclashes with Druze factionslast month, and to implement an agreement with the U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces that would reintegrate large swaths of northeastern Syria with the rest of the country. The Syrian government under interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has been struggling to consolidate control since he led asurprise insurgency that oustedformer President Bashar Assad in December, ending the Assad family's decades-long autocratic rule. Political opponents and ethnic and religious minorities have been suspicious of Sharaa's de facto Islamist rule and cooperation with affiliated fighters that come from militant groups. State state television said clashes between government forces and militias belonging to the Druze religious minority rocked the southern province of Sweida on Saturday after Druze factions attacked Syrian security forces, killing at least one member. The state-run Alikhbaria channel cited an anonymous security official who said the ceasefire has been broken. The Defense Ministry has not issued any formal statement. Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said in addition to the member of the security forces killed, one Druze was killed and at least nine others were wounded in the clashes that took place in the in the western part of Sweida province. The Observatory said the clashes took place at the strategic Tal al-Hadeed heights that overlook Daraa province next door. Difficult conditions in Sweida State media says that aid convoys continue to enter Sweida city as a part of a tense truce after over a week of violent clashes in July between Druze militias and armed Bedouin clans backed by government forces. However, humanitarian conditions remain dire, and residents of Sweida have called for the road into the city to be fully opened, saying the aid that has come in is not enough. The clashes that displaced tens of thousands of people came after months of tensions between Damascus and Sweida. The fighting led to a series of targeted sectarian attacks against the Druze minority, who are now skeptical of peaceful coexistence. Druze militias retaliated against Bedouin communities who largely lived in western areas of Sweida province, displacing many to neighboring Daraa. Elsewhere, in the northern Aleppo province, government-affiliated fighters clashed with the SDF. The Defense Ministry said three civilians and four soldiers were wounded after the SDF launched a barrage of rockets near the city of Manbij "in an irresponsible way and for unknown reasons." SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami on the other hand said the group was responding to shelling by "undisciplined factions" within government forces on Deir Haffar, an eastern city in the same province. The eastern part of Aleppo province straddles areas controlled by the government and by the SDF. Though the two are slowly trying to implement a ceasefire and agreement that would integrate the areas under Damascus, tensions remain. "The Ministry of Defense's attempts to distort facts and mislead public opinion do not contribute to security or stability," Shami said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Israeli forces carry out raids bordering annexed Golan Heights In Quneitra province, in the south, the Israeli military announced it conducted another ground operation in the area that borders the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. It said its troops questioned several suspects they accuse of involvement in weapons trafficking in the village of Hader, and raided four areas where they found weapons being trafficked. Since Assad's ouster, Israel has conducted numerous strikes and military operations in southern Syria, saying its forces are taking out militant groups that they suspect could harm Israelis and residents in the Golan Heights. Damascus has been critical of Israel's military activity, and the two sides have been trying to reach a security arrangement through U.S.-mediated talks. Syria has repeatedly said it does not intend to take military action against Israel. Those talks intensified after Israel backed the Druze in Sweida during the earlier clashes. Israel struck military personnel near the southern city and most notably launched an airstrike targeting the Defense Ministry headquarters in the heart of Damascus.

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Fresh clashes break out in Syria as the interim government struggles to ease tensions

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New details highlight harrowing minutes inside Manhattan office building as mass shooting unfolded

New details highlight harrowing minutes inside Manhattan office building as mass shooting unfolded

EDITOR'S NOTE:This story contains graphic descriptions of violence. During evening rush hour in New York City on Monday, a man calmly walked into a Park Avenue office building lobby and killed a police officer, then opened fire on other innocent strangers. Within a minute, the gunman had disappeared into a labyrinth of elevator banks and hallways, armed and loose somewhere in the 44-story building. The day's violence would become the deadliest mass shooting in New York City since 2000. The gunman shot and killed four people and wounded another, before killing himself, police said. From the moment the first panicked 911 calls were received, the New York Police Department unleashed a torrent of cops, specially trained units, heavy weapons, sophisticated technology and a swift information exchange among its 32,000 police officers and law enforcement partners across the country. As calls flooded in, the NYPD's electronic log system captured the horror happening in real time inside the Park Avenue skyscraper. The shorthand notes, obtained by CNN, show the desperation of frightened callers as operators attempted to piece together what was happening. "INVESTIGATE/POSSIBLE CRIME: SHOTS FIRED/INSIDE\ACTIVE_SHOOTER," read one note. "ACTIVE SHOOTER IN THE BUILDING AND LOCKED SELF IN ROOM," the log notes a female caller reported. Additional calls are logged: "7-8 SHOTS HEARD," "LOCATION IS NFL HEADQUARTERS," "SHOOTER IN BUILDING." Another female caller reported her husband telling her he's in a locked room, according to the log. From precinct officers to specialized commands, swarms of law enforcement teams raced to the scene. The NYPD's Emergency Service Unit, which operates as a SWAT team, entered the building and began a systematic search for the gunman, who was somewhere inside. At the same time, officers from the Strategic Response Command, providing an additional long-weapons team, set up a perimeter and established a safe corridor known as a "warm zone" to get medical personnel in and wounded victims out while the search for the gunman continued, law enforcement officials said. While those teams secured the area outside, detectives made their way into the skyscraper and examined surveillance video in the building's control center. They took a screengrab of the gunman, and using technology developed by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, blasted the image to NYPD officers' department-issued phones. Within minutes, every officer searching the building or holding the outside perimeter had a picture of a man taking large strides and carrying an assault rifle, the officials said. The gunman was identified after responding teams found his body on the building's 33rdfloor: 27-year-old Shane Devon Tamura of Las Vegas, Nevada. New details from law enforcement sources shed light on Tamura's travel to New York City, the gunman's movements inside the building and the police investigation. Here's what we've learned about the shooting at 345 Park Avenue: Officers found Tamura's black Series 3 BMW double-parked in front of the Park Avenue building, and then used his name, vehicle registration and a disjointed suicide note found in his back pocket to pull together a timeline of Tamura's path to the carnage. On Saturday, July 26, two days before the shooting, a license plate reader in Loma, Colorado, recorded Tamura's car with Nevada license plates passing through at 1:06 p.m., according to a law enforcement official. On Sunday, Tamura did not show up for his surveillance job as part of the security team at the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas. He was miles away. Tamura's black BMW was spotted driving eastbound on Interstate 80 by a license plate reader (LPR) owned by the Nebraska State Patrol. Later, an LPR operated by the Scott County Sheriff's Office recorded the car on I-80 near Wolcott, Indiana. At 4:24 p.m. Monday, a camera attached to the New Jersey State Police's real-time crime center took a picture of his BMW, this time along I-80 in Columbia, New Jersey, nearly two hours before the rampage would begin. Two senior law enforcement officials who reviewed video from the Midtown Manhattan office building provided the following account of the gunman's movements on Monday: At 6:26 p.m., Tamura double-parked outside 345 Park Avenue. He got out of the car carrying the M4 semi-automatic rifle, crossed the sidewalk and then the broad plaza leading to the office building's entrance. One minute later, Tamura entered the building. Inside, Tamura turned to his right to face uniformed NYPD officerDidarul Islamand shot him, killing the 36-year-old father of two who was expecting his third child. As Islam fell, Craig Clementi, who works in the NFL's finance department, was also shot. Clementi called his coworkers to warn them that a gunman was in the lobby firing shots, and then called 911, according to one of the senior officials. Wesley LePatner, a 43-year-old Blackstone executive, was shot as she moved toward a pillar in the lobby, police said. LePatner died from her wounds. Tamura then shot Aland Etienne, a 46-year-old security guard. Wounded, Etienne crawled toward the console behind the security desk and collapsed. Tamura went to an elevator bank on the opposite side of the lobby to the elevators that go up to the NFL offices. Officials have said investigators believe Tamura was headed for the NFL offices at the time of the shooting, buttook the wrong elevator. He ignored a woman exiting an elevator car, entered it and then pressed 33, the lowest available on its panel, according to one of the senior law enforcement officials. Once on the 33rd floor, Tamura faced glass walls with locked doors on either end of the hallway. These were the offices of Rudin Management, the company that runs the building. Tamura tried opening the doors, then opened fire on the glass and kicked through it to enter the floor, officials said. By then, it was likely he realized he wasn't at the NFL offices, according to the officials. Tamura saw an office cleaner,Sebije Nelovic,and opened fire but missed her, she said in a statement released by her union. Nelovic said she ran down the hallway and locked herself in a closet. She heard screams and more gunfire, she said, describing the gunman at one point shooting the door she was hiding behind. As shots rang out, frantic employees called 911 and barricaded themselves in offices and conference rooms. Their desperate calls reported how many shots they had heard, where they were hiding and where they believed the gunman was moving, according to a radio call log reviewed by CNN. Over the years, Rudin Management conducted active shooter drills and training for its employees. Their offices on the 33rd floor have bathrooms designed as safe rooms, in the event of an incident just like the one that unfolded Monday, the officials said. The rooms are outfitted with bullet-proof doors that lock with bolts from the inside, and their walls are lined with Kevlar. Each bathroom is equipped with a video feed showing the hallway outside and a dedicated telephone line. Julia Hyman, a 27-year-old Rudin Management employee who was working late, was in one of those very bathrooms designed as a safe room. It is not clear whether she had heard the shots or understood what was unfolding outside. She stepped outside the bathroom, and walked three or four steps, apparently unaware that the gunman was behind her. He fired, striking her in the back. Wounded, Hyman stumbled to her desk and died from her wounds, according to one of the officials who reviewed the video. By this time, it appeared Tamura realized there were no more accessible targets in the office, and, with police swarming the building, it was not likely he was going to find his way to the NFL, the official said. A few seconds after shooting Hyman, video is said to show Tamura stood next to a desk, held out his arms to aim the rifle at his own chest and used his thumb to pull the trigger, firing a single round, the official said. His body dropped to the floor, his rifle falling next to him. Tamura had fired most of two 30-round magazines of .223 ammunition in a matter of minutes, the official said. Throughout the night and into the morning, police collected evidence from where the victims lay and from the areas where shots were fired. In the building lobby, 23 shell casings and more than a dozen ricocheted bullet fragments were recovered, according to an NYPD official. In the 33rd floor offices of Rudin Management, investigators from the NYPD's Crime Scene Unit found another 24 shell casings from Tamura's M4 rifle, as well as 15 bullet fragments, the NYPD official said. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents on the scene received the rifle's serial number, and within minutes detectives learned the rifle had been purchased on August 29, 2024, by a Las Vegas man identified as "Rick," a coworker of Tamura's at the Horseshoe Casino, according to documents reviewed by CNN. "Rick" has not responded to CNN's requests for comment. The NYPD Intelligence Bureau's SENTRY unit, which maintains a national network of law-enforcement contacts, then reached out to Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill, who sent detectives to interview "Rick." "Rick" had also sold Tamura the black BMW he drove across the country, according to Nevada DMV records. Other Las Vegas sheriff's deputies were dispatched to Tamura's apartment to seal it while awaiting a search warrant. Another team went to interview Tamura's parents, who lived nearby. The Las Vegas Metro Police Crime Stoppers hotline received a call at 8:25 p.m. the night of the shooting. A licensed gun dealer had seen the picture of Tamura and remembered his face. In June, he had sold him a modified trigger for an M4 rifle. Tamura had also told the dealer that he planned to buy 500 rounds of .223 ammunition for the assault rifle, a law enforcement official told CNN. Back in New York, Tamura's BMW was cleared by the bomb squad. Detectives recovered 827 rounds for a stainless steel .357 magnum Colt Python revolver. According to the same official, the gun was fully loaded with another six rounds in the cylinder. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account atCNN.com

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Quentin Tarantino Shares Michael Madsen ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Story During Private Memorial: ‘I’m On Your Side, Buddy’

Quentin Tarantino Shares Michael Madsen 'Reservoir Dogs' Story During Private Memorial: 'I'm On Your Side, Buddy'

Quentin Tarantino is remembering Michael Madsen, whodied on July 3in his Malibu home. He was 67. According toTMZ, Tarantino held a closed memorial for Madsen on Friday at his Vista Theatre, during which he recalled a needed moment of support from his frequent collaborator while filming "Reservoir Dogs." More from Variety Everything We Know About David Fincher's 'The Adventures of Cliff Booth' Michael Madsen Delivers One of His Final Performances in 'Concessions' Clip (EXCLUSIVE) Stormzy, Michael Madsen, Viola Davis, Stephen Fry, Idris Elba Set for HollyShorts Film Festival's 21st Edition (EXCLUSIVE) "It was the last hour of the last day of the first week of shooting. So, I had never directed a movie before," Tarantino said on stage. "And Lawrence Tierney was a fucking nightmare. He was completely insane. He was so crazy, and I'd never directed before, so I'm dealing with a crazy man Monday through Saturday." He continued, "All the other actors and the crew can't stand him. And all of a sudden, he yells at me or something, does something disrespectful. The other times, he was being disrespectful, but he didn't quite mean it. This time, he meant it." Tarantino went on to act out his expletive-laden response, which ended in him firing Tierney in front of the entire cast and crew, who broke into "applause" at his termination. Although his team was excited, Tarantino thought his career was over after firing the actor. "I just spent a week shooting this fucking guy, now I just fired him," Tarantino recalled. "Live Entertainment is gonna fucking fire me. That's it for my career. It was nice while it lasted. But I had to do it, I had to stand up for myself." That night, Tarantino got a voicemail from Madsen, who backed up his decision to get rid of Tierney. Doing his best Madsen impression, Tarantino recalled the message: "'Yeah, Quentin, it's Michael. Just calling to say that I really respected what you did tonight. It was important, and needed to be done. He was busting your balls and you had to do it. And I want you to know that I respect it, as a director, I respect it as a captain, and I respect it as a man. So, I'm on your side, buddy. Thanks.'" With an acting career spanning over 40 years, Madsen was best known for his collaborations with Tarantino. The director cast Madsen as a psychotic thief in "Reservoir Dogs" and a hitman in "Kill Bill: Vols. 1 & 2." He also appeared in Tarantino's "The Hateful Eight" and "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood." According to Madsen's rep, he was found unresponsive on July 3 and said the cause of death appeared to be a cardiac arrest. "In the last two years Michael Madsen has been doing some incredible work with independent film including upcoming feature films' Resurrection Road', 'Concessions' and 'Cookbook for Southern Housewives,' and was really looking forward to this next chapter in his life," his rep said in a statement. "Michael was also preparing to release a new book called 'Tears For My Father: Outlaw Thoughts and Poems' currently being edited," Madsen's managers, Susan Ferris and Ron Smith, and publicist Liz Rodriguez said in a joint statement. "Michael Madsen was one of Hollywood's most iconic actors, who will be missed by many." Madsen's acting career also spans television, with appearances in "Miami Vice," "Quantum Leap," "The Hitchhiker," "Vengeance Unlimited" and dozens more. In addition to film and TV, Madsen voiced characters in video games such as "Grand Theft Auto III," the "Dishonored" series and "Crime Boss: Rockay City." Over the past two decades, his recent work has featured his appearances in dozens of low-budget films, as well as publishing poetry and photography. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in August 2025 What's Coming to Netflix in August 2025 Sign up forVariety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram.

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Quentin Tarantino Shares Michael Madsen ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Story During Private Memorial: ‘I’m On Your Side, Buddy’

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Mandy Moore Calls Out Driver Who Rear-Ended Her Family in Hit-and-Run: 'What Kind of Human Does That?'

Mandy Moore Calls Out Driver Who Rear-Ended Her Family in Hit-and-Run: 'What Kind of Human Does That?'

Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Mandy Moore is calling out a driver who rear-ended her family in a hit-and-run incident "The woman who rear ended my family and then drove off [when] we pulled over, hope your karma finds you," theThis Is Usstar wrote on her Instagram Stories on Friday, Aug. 1 Moore shares three children with her husband, Taylor Goldsmith: sons August "Gus" Harrison, 4, and Oscar "Ozzie" Bennett, 2, as well as daughter Louise "Lou" Everett, 10 months Mandy Mooreis calling out a driver who rear-ended her family in a hit-and-run incident. On Friday, Aug. 1, theThis Is Usalum, 41, revealed on her Instagram Stories that a woman struck her family's car before speeding off. "The woman who rear endedmy familyand then drove off [when] we pulled over, hope your karma finds you," she wrote in the since-expired post, perPage Six. "Thankfully everyone was OK but what kind of human does that?" Moore shares three children with her husband, musicianTaylor Goldsmith: sonsAugust "Gus" Harrison, 4, andOscar "Ozzie" Bennett, 2, as well as daughterLouise "Lou" Everett, 10 months. The actress didn't specify in her post which of her family members were present during the accident. Mandy Moore/Instagram Moore has been candid about her family's struggles following the loss of their Los Angeles home in theEaton Fire in January. On Feb. 11, she posted a photo of her house onInstagram, sharing that "the contents of our home are a near total loss" due to its proximity to the fires and other burning structures. Moore previously said on Jan. 9 that"miraculously" the "main part" of the house was "still standing." "Pretty much everything will have to be disposed of…maybe even the walls too," she wrote. "We won't be there for a very long time as it and the neighborhood itself get sorted out and cleaned and the rebuilding starts." Six months after the fires, Moore's friend and formerThis Is UscostarChrissy Metzshared in an interview withExtrathat Moore was "doing well." "I mean, thank goodness. A lot of the structure was able to be salvaged, which is great, but it's so jarring. It's so life-altering, and she has children and pets," Metz said. In an Instagram update in March, Moore revealed that she and Goldsmith, 39, were ready to begin rebuilding, as she shared photos taken before their home burned down. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "I miss this space and our home and Altadena immensely, so I'm looking forward to rebuilding version 2.0," theA Walk to Rememberstar said at the time. Micelotta/Disney via Getty The Eaton Fire was one of aseries of wildfires in L.A.that leftmore than 80,000 people displaced, including numerous celebrities, anddestroyed more than 1,000 structures. The deadly blaze ignited on Jan. 7 and wasfully containedon Jan. 31, along with the Palisades Fire. Moore and Goldsmith have also been candid about wanting to still have fun as a new family of five amid the loss of their home. https://people-app.onelink.me/HNIa/kz7l4cuf Earlier this week, theTangledstar shared an adorablephoto of her familyonInstagramas she recounted her time spent at the beach on vacation. In the sweet image, Moore could be seen sitting in the surf alongside her husband while her son Ozzy hung on around her neck. Sitting beside the star, Gus was pictured squishing his hands into the sand and looking down. Goldsmith propped up the couple's youngest child, daughter Lou, as she sat in his lap. Other snaps showed the family enjoying the beach and watching sunsets. "Nothing beats a beach vacation with some of your besties (here's looking you at you@whatsgabycookin)," Moore wrote in the post's caption. "What an epic few days,@fspuntamita! We can't wait to come back (Gus hasn't stopped talking about it)!!" Read the original article onPeople

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Mandy Moore Calls Out Driver Who Rear-Ended Her Family in Hit-and-Run: 'What Kind of Human Does That?'

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