Taken from her home on 7 October with three of her children, Chen Almog-Goldstein recalls being held captive by Hamas
  • @[email protected]English
    26•9 months ago

    You’ve selected the least possible representative passage of the entire article. I suspect the interview subject would probably point to

    “I remember there was a hole in [Almog-Goldstein’s daughter’s] 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.

    or perhaps the opening line,

    Chen Almog-Goldstein refuses to forget her eldest daughter’s last moments. Yam, 20, was gasping for breath, having been shot in the face by Hamas gunmen, who minutes earlier had killed her father.

    or maybe this line about halfway through,

    Almog-Goldstein said. “But we were always terrified they would flip on us, that they’d get an order from someone to harm us, because clearly they were low-ranking cogs in the machine. We were constantly in angst or terror.”

    as being more representative of her experience.

    • @filister
      5•9 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
      4•9 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.”