• @[email protected]OP
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    3910 months ago

    Almog-Goldstein was more worried at times that she and her daughter, Agam, 17, and sons Gal, 11, and Tal, nine, would be killed by the Israeli offensive than by their captors, who once shielded the family with their bodies as shrapnel rained around them.

      • @filister
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        10 months ago

        No human being should go through such a nightmare. No matter the skin colour religion, ethnicity, etc. and this applies to Palestinians as well who are now going through hell.

        And the whole fact that Israel is doing very little to alleviate their suffering doesn’t bode well with their moral values. They pretend to be better than Hamas and then you read about all their war crimes and the immense suffering of the Palestinians and you start wondering if they are any better than Hamas.

      • iknt
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        410 months ago

        For context

        On 7 October, the Almog-Goldsteins had barricaded themselves in Yam’s bedroom, which served as the safe room of their home in the Kfar Aza kibbutz. Five hours later, five Hamas gunmen burst in and shot Nadav, 48, in the chest at point-blank range.

        The family had to step over the talented triathlete’s body as the militants led them outside, where Yam fainted. Almog-Goldstein tried to wet her daughter’s face in the bathroom before going to check on her other children. When she returned a few seconds later, she saw that Yam, a soldier just two months from the end of her service, had been shot in the face.

        “I remember there was a hole in her cheek and she was gasping her last breaths. There was an exit hole on the other side and her head was bleeding profusely,” Almog-Goldstein said through tears.

        “With time this image becomes more and more blurred but every night, throughout this whole time, just before night-time, I try to force myself to remember that image, that scene. It was such a difficult thing that I was witnessing, that it’s a process of self-torture in a way for me not to ever forget that.”