Every Israeli will remember where he is. October 7, 2023. that morning Hamas drown Israel “To put an end to all the crimes of the occupation,” as the military commander of the Palestinian militia, Mohammed Deif, explained. Paragliders and rockets flew into the sky. Warships outlined the Mediterranean. Hypothesis “iron wall” 30 different clearings between Gaza and Israel were destroyed by bulldozers. Thousands of bullets flew towards Israeli cities. Military bases on the coast were occupied. More than 1,500 armed men rampaged 30 kilometers into Jewish territory. A music festival soaked in blood.
Footage of the massacres still rings non-stop on Israeli phones. That day 1,300 people died in Israel. They were killed in their homes and on the streets. That day Changed the State of Israel and its people forever.
“Since that time holocaust“Even then they didn’t kill so many Jews in one day,” he repeats. Gabriel Trzewik, Argentina-Israel from Kibbutz Dvir. More than 31 kilometers from the Gaza Strip, nothing but daily sirens reached there during this tragic incident sabbath. But the same feeling exists in every corner of Israel. Hamas’s unprecedented incursion into its territory and violence against its people, murders and kidnappings LoopThey brought the trauma of the Holocaust into their homes. There is no one in the state highest rate of militarization The whole world was ready to protect him.
“Solidarity networks”
The miscalculation was disastrous. Although the majority of citizens believe this This is not the time to point fingers. However, the details learned (unnoticed malfunctions in surveillance balloons, underestimation of the enemy, Egypt’s ignored warning and disaster, etc.) anger the public. After that a fight that lasted for hours lasted until this evening, some 1500 Hamas fighters killed In the land of Israel. They were discovered on their bodies plans and maps The number of soldiers they can find shows that they have information about how soon and where local reinforcements will arrive. They knew they had to kill and take hostages “to negotiate.”
As the population of southern Israel succumbs to chaos, silence of leaders In the end he left them helpless. Full ‘‘Sabbath’, Judaism’s holy day that coincides with the end of the festivities SukkotIt took authorities at least several hours to respond. “All protest networks [en contra de la reforma judicial del gobierno del primer ministro, Binyamín Netanyahu] They became networks of solidarity,” explains Trzewik. “The official country was not there”, complaint. But what about the answer? revengeDepending on how you look at it, it’s not over today and it won’t be over tomorrow either. While Israel buried its martyrs after discovering the horrors taking place in these border towns 6 thousand bombings on Gaza.
Accusations of ethnic cleansing
A few days after the surprise, he subjected the Palestinian people in the region to torture. full lock: Without electricity, water, gasoline and food. On Monday, Hamas threatened to execute a hostage without prior warning for every attack on civilian targets. Israel ignored the threat and continued bombing, or at least killing 2,215 Palestinians in a week. European Union and the United States They approached Israeli authorities and gave them political and even military support. An unexpected gift for the unpopular Netanyahu. Meanwhile, the streets of the Westgenocide and Israel’s real-time ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.
The deadliest attack ever carried out on Israeli soil, causing an even greater carnage in the blockaded region. Massacres committed in the southern kibbutz, kibbutzim left ideology, has shaken a population that until recently had participated in peace initiatives with its Gazan neighbors. “Neither in my imagination nor in my memory does it occur to me that Israeli soldiers were going from house to house in Gaza killing people,” Trzewik says. The NGO founded by his wife Yael was taking children in need of medical attention from the Gaza border and transporting them to Israeli hospitals. “However I don’t want to dominate other people if we come back and occupy them; Ironically, he says, “No matter how much we bomb them, they will not convert to Judaism.”
Gaza Evacuation
Israelis are trying to overcome the trauma by creating solidarity networks as a survival mechanism. unity government with opposition leader Benny Gantz. “When we were protesting, they called us anarchists, but we were there because we love our countryjust like today,” says Trzewik from the kibbutz. This socialist says, “God will not save us, we will save ourselves.” Then largest security breach in history Neither Israel’s country, nor its society, nor its trust in the Government, Army, and intelligence services will be the same. Neither its position in the region in recent years nor its relationship with the Palestinians.
But most importantly, it will never be the same again. Gaza Strip That’s one of the goals Israeli leaders expressed this week. While the Israeli Army demanded that the 1.1 million population of northern Gaza leave the area before 15:00, the bombardment did not stop on thousands of people. thousands of families They ran away in panic from fear imminent land occupation and not knowing if they can return. Israeli planes bombed the safe routes they were ordered to travel through. They also announced: assassination of some leaders From the October 7 attack. The UN states that Gaza and its people are destroyed and their shelters are no longer safe.