"I call my brother and he answers. His voice is so different, altered, that I know already, before he tells me, that the worst has happened. Terrorists broke into the kibbutz, he says. Dad said in his last call that he can hear Arabic. Soon after that, we lost him."
"By the time we arrive in York I will see the brutal execution of my childhood carer Bracha Levinson, now almost 80 years old, as it was livestreamed on her Facebook page by the terrorists who seized her house."
"Then I see the reporter Muthana Al-Najjar covering the Hamas takeover of Nir Oz (I still cannot believe that a journalist was attached to the terrorists, his coverage then legitimised, quoted and shown by major media outlets), standing 100 metres from my parents' home saying we were able to enter a kibbutz; the most important kibbutz of the occupation."
On the morning of 7 October 2023, a family traveling to collect a new puppy learned of an attack on the Gaza–Israel border. Phone calls to the parents went unanswered; a brother's altered voice confirmed terrorists had entered the kibbutz. The father died after a final call. A childhood caregiver, nearly eighty, was executed and livestreamed. A journalist appeared alongside armed attackers near the family's home, reporting from the scene as gunfire and celebrations echoed. The family's routine collapsed into shock, disbelief, and an overwhelming sense of loss as private life was transformed by violence and public spectacle.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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