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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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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R.I.P. to all the Palestinian children that Israel killed in cold blood when deciding to airstrike housing blocks.
Housing blocks where war supplies or combatants were hiding. And only after giving warning and time for people to leave the building.
If Palestinians didn’t want their children killed, they shouldn’t have hidden behind them.
Just to be clear: You’re saying that you’re fine with Israel killing children?
If Palestinians didn’t want their children killed, they shouldn’t have hidden behind them.
I can’t believe someone actually think this conclusion is considered okay.
Yes, very good. Tow that line that the media tells you to. Brown bad, Israel good.
Is that what you heard from the state sponsored Israeli media? You know, since Palestine isn’t allowed to have media that represents it self? Or are you just so ignorant you take the first thing you hear and run with it?
what the fuck has your comment to do with the article?
We all knew that there are also people dying in Palestine due to military operations conducted by Israel, but your whataboutism does not justify the killing of civilians by terrorists…
The fact is that Israel has been creating the conditions for this violence for decades. Hamas wouldn’t even exist if Palestinians weren’t the victims of an apartheid state and ethnic cleansing
yeah yeah…Israel bad, Palestine good, I got your meta now…🥱
Israel bad, Palestine bad
I agree, Israeli terrorism must stop.
you’re a special kind of stupid aren’t you…well no point in debating with idiots, adios.
You’re right, no point in debating with people like you.
I appreciate you revealing your intellectual dishonesty this early into this thread.
I remember those videos of IDF soldiers pulling raped dead women through the streets of Telaviv while people cheered and spat on the bodies. Oh wait, I don’t.
So, that’s worth murdering nearly 200 innocent children?
How many dead kids do you think that’s worth in retribution?
Not just alive, but in a hospital that Israel wants to cut off water, food, and power to…
Gaza isn’t allowed to have their own utilities, so they’ve always been completely reliant on Israel
You are so fucking ignorant it’s ridiculous. What Hamas has done is bad, and fucked up. What Israel has done is bad, and fucked up. You are the only one going around saying it has to be one or the other.
And I don’t even want to see a brain dead response from you going ‘hurr durr Hamas did this now so Hamas worse’. It’s not about one being worse than the other, this isn’t an internet edgebot competition. Just shut the fuck up.
You’re right, both sides of this conflict have their own flavors of atrocities
One side just happens to be a supposed democracy with one of the most advanced armies in the world with the most destructive and deadly capabilities with endless funding.
It’s two sides. But not even sides. Not even close.
One side holds 100 hostages and shoots home made rockets into a wasteland.
The other side holds 2.3 million hostages, and bombs civilians in one of the most densely populated area in the world.
It’s two sides. But not even sides. Not even close
I never claimed they have symmetric capabilities and I agree that Israel holds a significantly higher burden to avoid civilian casualties due to their capability, but that doesn’t change the fact that Hamas intentionally commits atrocities. The IRA spent 30 years bombing British troops and sometimes civilians in their aim for a United Ireland and got nowhere. Hamas has only achieved the perpetuation of the suffering in Gaza and potentially the prevention of a more moderate (Saudi funded) political alternative in Gaza. I genuinely think the Saudi Israeli rapprochement is what this is all about.
Hate to break it to you, the OG IRA used violence and got most of the country in 1921. Republican groups used violence in the north in the late 60s to 70s and it improved the very real injustices facing Catholics at the time.
Violence has always been needed to change things in a meaningful way.
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
Because they think that Israel is right to be committing genocide for decades.
That’s a pretty slow genocide tho.
almost a 100 years now
Israel won two wars in the area: 1948 (when they declared independence and all the neighboring arab countries invaded) and the Six-Day War in 1967. Many say that the latter victory marked the start of the oppression against palestinians.
Maybe living within earshot of a concentration camp wasn’t the best idea, huh?
