Feels like a time capsule stuck in the horrors of the 7th of october. Hamas broke in at dawn. They killed and took Hostage A Quarter of the 400 or so israelis who lived here. Sayed was laying there dead, nearthere. You could see that he was trying to hold the door closed, and actually, the door was locked. The army opened the door later. Ron behat and his family survived in their safe room. Then he recovered dead friends and neighbours, some in pieces. In this house, you know, that was the first time that we realised that we are not looking for only bodies, because the beginning, you know, we took a lot of bodies. The interrupted, terminated lives laundry neatly folded the night before the attack give israelis a sense of moral clarity. Going around this place, you can understand why israelis believe very strongly that theyre fighting a just war in gaza. Of course, their allies feel the same. Their quarrel is with the methods that israel has been using, that have cost so many innocent p
October 7th six months ago that hamas fighters stormed into towns and that they then took more than 250 hostages and killed more than 1000 people. The attack sparked whats become the deadliest and most destructive israel gaza war, killing over Thirty Thousand palestinians according to the Hamas Run Health Ministry. The un says it gaza is now on the brink of famine. Here in israel, the hostages are described as an open wound. There are there a re protests there are protests across tel aviv demanding that the government does more to bring hostages home. Their anger was intensified by news that our body was recovered in another military operation. Elad katzir was taken on october and seventh, along with his mother and father. His father was murdered that day, and his mother was released that was released in november as part of a temporary ceasefire deal. Pressure is mounting on negotiators to try and achieve a more lasting ceasefire. Indirect talks between israel and hamas have resumed in
He joined us earlier from the city of denver. I was at my first Music Festival, i was not expecting it to end with us driving by gun men and over corpses. When. What was the moment when you realised it was no longer a Music Festival . After the rockets began at 6 30, and they did not stop. I was worried that it was notjust rockets, and they went on for a while. The rockets began at 6 30. And we actually physically got to our car at about 7 51am, over one hour later, and the rockets had not stopped. And at that point i was growing increasingly more anxious and concerned about the situation. Behind me, as i am speaking to you, i am at the site of the festival. There is now a sea of israeli flags and photographs of those who died here on that day. They may include some of your friends. Would you like to tell us about the people who were with you on that day who did not escape . So i was with a group of eight others, total. Myself, my cousin, mordecai, his now fiancee, tamara, and several
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