Kibbutz Attacked
Updated 2024-02-26
2023-10-31 In Kibbutz Be’eri, a broken promise to keep Israelis safe Kibbutz Be’eri – three miles from Gaza – never felt like the frontline of a conflict. It looks like one now. Its empty streets are a canvas of rage. In the house where seven members of Gilad Korngold’s family were taken hostage by Hamas, it’s hard to find any sign or scrap of family life. Machine-gun fire has gouged holes across the walls; rooms are collapsed and gutted by fire; bullets have made lacework of the metal doors. The safe-room door held fast against the bullets, but the steel shutters outside were blown open, and his family has gone. Among them are his son Tal, daughter-in-law Adi, his eight-year-old grandson Naveh and three-year-old granddaughter Yahel. It’s the first time he’s seen the house, which belongs to Adi’s parents, since the attack.
“It’ll take generations to rebuild [the kibbutz], if they build a new one,” he told me. “I think a lot of people will not return.” What was broken here was not just the houses, but the promise Israel made to its people that it could keep them safe, even three miles from a territory run by a group committed to Israel’s destruction. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67281022
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