What Happened to the Palestinians in Gaza During the September 7, 2001 Israel Referendum on the Oslo Against Human Rights Violation
My captors held my arms as they sat me on a golf cart, and we drove off toward the border with Gaza. I held myself together so my children wouldn’t be harmed. I told myself I wouldn’t let them break me. I wouldn’t give them the pleasure of seeing me afraid. I didn’t cry. When they pointed a camera at my face, I smiled. That image was broadcasted all over the world. I wouldn’t let them get the satisfaction of making me suffer.
Thousands of Israelis have left Israel since October 7, while others are considering or are planning to leave. After a brief break, the protesters resumed their civil disobedience after the Netanyahu government’s proposed judicial reform was attacked. Pictures of ex-Israeli army chief of staff Dan Halutz being forcibly removed by the police from the street at the sit-in in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence were a further example.
The Israelis were whispering to the people on the radio, ‘Why doesn’t anyone come?’ Everybody, where are you? Where is the army? They’re in my house, they’re shooting at me.’ We will remember this for the rest of our lives, all of us,” Roth says.
At one of the recent mass demonstrations in Tel Aviv calling for a hostage deal and for early elections to replace the Israeli government, one protester held up a sign reading: “Who are we without them?” referring to the hostages. Another placard read: “Give me one reason to raise kids here.”
“Questions from [the] inferno, really,” says Merav Roth, a prominent Israeli psychologist, and the sister of former Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid, who has counseled the kibbutz members all year long.
Silence is what helped keep the survivors of this small community alive the day of the attack. Silence is what they carried out of hiding from their safe rooms along the Gaza border to a hotel on the Dead Sea that took them in.
According to health officials in the Gaza Strip, more than 41,000 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip in the past year, making it the most deadly war in Palestinian history.
The Israeli village grieving the biggest loss from Oct. 7: “The Israeli village october-7-kibbutz-beeri-hamas attack”
The head of the kibbutz explained that he was exhausted after every funeral and had to deal with it again. We cry again because it brings back everything.
This tight-knit Israeli community near the Gaza border is digging up its dead from temporary graves further away and reburying them back home so they won’t be missed, a year into the war.
She saw the man loading the gun in her home. She says that he was stripped naked by the military, and guarded by an Israeli soldier.
She and her husband locked themselves up inside their shelter room after she grabbed her gun. They survived the attack because they had installed a sliding bolt on the safe room. The attackers tried to open the door. Her neighbors’ safe rooms only had the standard locks and were breached.
The survivors of the attack are taking sleeping pills to deal with the trauma of the attack and unable to see the destroyed homes. I think we’ll have to take them all down.
A short walk away, though, are the homes that were attacked last year. There were bullet holes, shattered windows and a pair of children’s shoes in the debris.
“The Israeli village grieving the biggest loss from Oct. 7”, writes Batya Ofir, a physicist in Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel
A number of families have returned to Kibbutz Be’eri. Cohen, the head of the community, is overseeing an ambitious project to bring the residents back within two and a half years.
I asked myself, what do you want? To continue living? I can also not. I had to think about it. And then I decided that I wanted to continue to live,” she says. “I have a family, I have children, I have grandchildren. I draw. I’m learning to kayak, to deal with all my fears. I do everything to give some meaning to life now that they’re gone.”
At the time his body was unearthed, she wanted to be with him. She felt guilty that she wasn’t with her family in their worst moment because she had not lived on the kibbutz anymore.
Batya Ofir attended the funeral. She dug up her brother’s decomposing body and reburied him and his family in the kibbutz cemetery.
There were teens and parents that left the neighborhood cemetery after a funeral for a mother and her son at Kibbutz Be’eri.
Source: The Israeli village grieving the biggest loss from Oct. 7, one year later
How do I Tell them How to Keep Seeing? The Palestinians in the Dead Sea, Kibbutz Be’eri, Gaza
I told the therapists how to do their job when I gave them guidelines in Be’eri. Because these people don’t know that it still matters. They have to know that their wellbeing is still relevant. The life instincts want to see someone call him back.
They are very worried about the future of this place. Many of them leave the country. She says that their parents told them that people who didn’t leave in the Holocaust died. Hopelessness and helplessness are very strong. The trauma is all over the country.
A boy in a kibbutz lost members of his family, two parents and two siblings. So do we tell him about each separately or do we tell him about all of them together?” She says so.
Roth has also counseled former hostages who returned from Hamas captivity in Gaza, families whose loved ones were killed in captivity, and Israelis who didn’t experience a personal loss but still suffer from sleeping difficulties, anxiety attacks and depression.
It took a long time for the people to beaccounted for: who was dead, and who was held in Gaza. Roth sat with the survivors of Kibbutz Be’eri in the Dead Sea hotel basement as the village secretary read the names of 27 identified bodies and 108 people unaccounted for.
The attack on Kibbutz Be’eri took seven hours to be fought off, and the Israeli military discovered about 340 attackers were in the area, with more than a dozen of them arriving before the troops arrived.
In the past year, there has been more violence in the West Bank between Palestinians belonging to Hamas and other groups as well as Israeli settlers and the Israeli military.
Over the past year, Hamas has lost control over territory in the Gaza Strip, leaving an empty political and logistical vacuum that international aid groups had trouble filling.
Cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel, brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, are on hold, so for civilians in Gaza, the forced displacement that for many began last October, still has no end in sight.
The father of seven comes from the same area of northern Gaza where civilians were once again ordered to evacuate Monday, and he’s been displaced four times in the last year.
When Hamas-led fighters attacked communities in southern Israel a year ago, they killed more than 1,200 and seized about 250 hostages, according to Israeli officials. Musleh was going to school that day.
In an NPR interview on Monday, he said he sympathizes with the Israeli hostages that are held by Hamas but that Benjamin Netanyahu has caused the suffering and that peace will only be possible if Israelis oust him.
In Ramallah, the Israeli-occupied West Bank’s biggest city, dozens of Palestinians gathered in the main square Monday, waving Palestinian flags and carrying anti-occupation signs.
One year has passed since the war in Gaza started and Basma Abu Sway said last October 7th is one of the most important days in Palestinian history.
A Palestinian Prisoner’s Club member, Ahmed Assi, was shot by an Israeli settlers in a small village in the central West Bank
On Monday the Palestinian advocacy group, Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, announced that Israeli military forces had arrested 45 people through Sunday night into Monday morning across the West Bank.
Rima Nazzal was also in Ramallah’s Manara Square Monday, and said she felt concern and fear — worried that Israel’s occupation of Palestinians would grow stronger as a result of the its military’s actions after Oct. 7 last year.
According to his family and residents, Israeli settlers shot and killed his father, Ahmed, in his village in the central West Bank.
The circumstances of Assi’s death were still under review according to the Israeli military, who told NPR that they responded to a physical confrontation between Palestinians and Israeli citizens with riot disposal means and live fire.
The grandmother of Ahmed Assi shows bloodied clothes and a sweatshirt that had a bullet hole in the back. Assi’s 5-year-old daughter, Jenna, looks on, wearing a necklace with a picture of her dead dad.
“When my father was martyred, I started to work, I took over my father’s profession, I started working and spending on the house. I became responsible for the house as I was smart and managed things.
There is a chance that Noor may maintain his haircut. But he has the hardened hands of an older working man, no longer hanging out with friends, devoting himself, instead, to work, faith and family.
The barbershop is much more than just a place to cut hair in the Middle East. It’s a great place to hang out, talk about sports, family, politics and more. The mayor of the village entered not long after Noor got his trim. He is a distant relative of someone else. It’s a small community and family ties are strong. There is a poster of a person dead.
The mayor claims that the Qardain is surrounded by Israeli settlements and outposts. According to the United Nations, 500,000 Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank. The settlements they live in are deemed illegal by the international community. Israeli politicians like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have promoted their expansion and they are growing through smaller outposts.
He says that on Dec. 2, settlers entered the village, damaging property, burning cars, wounding a man and shooting a man dead. His lifeless body was found by an olive grove on the outskirts.
On Friday, the holiest day of the week in Islam, Noor prays at the village mosque before his weekly ritual of visiting his father’s grave, draped in a Palestinian flag.
“Take care of your family and your brothers,” says Noor Assi in a carpentry shop in the west bank of Israel
I tell him what is happening, who is coming over, and so on,” he says. “Last time, he came to me in a dream and told me, ‘Take care of your family and your brothers.’ “
In a carpentry shop in the village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Noor Assi is at work packaging a wooden table. He flips the table on its side after tearing off strips of tape.