‘Murdered in cold blood’: stories emerge of Israelis killed at Gaza border
Friends and relatives say Hamas killed a grandmother, parents protecting their children, and an entire family during raids
A little after 11pm on Sunday, the Israeli government posted a photograph of a family on one of its social media accounts. There were five people in the selfie: a mother, a father and their three young children, all of them smiling.
“Tamar, Yonatan and their children Shachar, Arbel, Omer,” the caption read. “An entire family wiped out by Hamas terrorists. There are no words. May their memory be a blessing.”
Moments later, the former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett reposted the photo.
“An entire family murdered in cold blood,” he wrote. “Look at their happy faces. Their love. All of them murdered by Palestinian terrorists at Nir Oz kibbutz. Just because they’re Jews.”
Although it remains unclear exactly what happened to the Kedem family on their kibbutz, which lies a mile and a half from the border with Gaza, their picture – and the story of their murders – has been widely shared to illustrate the utter pitilessness and ferocity of Hamas’s attack on Israel.
According to friends in Australia, the family rushed to their safe room when the assaults began, from where they sent a WhatsApp message.
“Hi guys, we got into the shelter in our house, we’re all going okay,” the text read.
An hour later, however, Tamar had stopped responding to messages from Yishai and Mor Lacob, her friends in Sydney.
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If you're going to treat them like animals, they're going to act like animals.
The cyclical nature of violence is a systemic explanation, not an individual excuse.
Maybe living within earshot of a concentration camp wasn't the best idea, huh?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Although it remains unclear exactly what happened to the Kedem family on their kibbutz, which lies a mile and a half from the border with Gaza, their picture – and the story of their murders – has been widely shared to illustrate the utter pitilessness and ferocity of Hamas’s attack on Israel.
Mor Lacob said her friend Tamar, a women’s rights activist and community leader, would be remembered for her kindness and sense of social justice.
On Sunday morning, a volunteer at Nir Oz, a community of about 400 people, said residents had woken to “a kibbutz in flames” and were “still passing around checking damages and trying to figure out who is where”.
Relatives of an as-yet-unnamed woman said their grandmother had been murdered by the militants, who then filmed her dying moments and posted them on her Facebook page.
Another of the woman’s grandchildren, Yoav Shimoni, who had visited her on the kibbutz two weeks earlier to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, said the family believed she had been targeted because of her house’s proximity to the border fence.
“Itay and Hadar were brutally murdered after fighting bravely against the terrorists,” according to Gali Dagan, Israel’s ambassador to Colombia.
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Why would you bring a family there in the first place? Your country is committing military occupation there.
The kibutzim around gaza are not on occupied land. The west bank and gaza are not the same place.
The very concept of kibbutz is invasive settlement. Of course theyre gonna be right on the border, theyre trying to be the border and to push it further.
Look at
map
Yes i see the border between israel and occupied gaza
Occupied by whom?
The IDF
Back to the books with you
Ive read plenty on israels atrocities, thanks
Yet you fail at the basic task of understanding who held the gaza strip when and under which borders.
Did you forget we're talking about a specific article? The when is Sunday, the where is on the israel/gaza border.
And the point is that the civilians massacred in the kibutzim around gaza are not settlers but rather normal citizens living within the internationally recognized borders.
Because they think that Israel is right to be committing genocide for decades.
almost a 100 years now