Eliraz Peretz's mother talks about her feelings after capturing the terrorist who murdered her son • "It disrupted me. Everything is floating. I went back that Friday, to knock on the door"
Miriam Peretz next to a photo of the late Eliraz // Photo: Yoav Ari Dodkevich
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Photo: Yoav Ari Dodkevich
Miriam Peretz says that this is not an easy day for her. Ever since she received the phone call from the GSS representative who updated her on the arrest of the terrorist involved in the attack in Gaza in which her son, Eliraz Peretz, was killed, she says the news took her back, to that terrible day. Justice.
"From the moment the GSS representative called me, everything was confused. I felt overwhelmed, full of emotions, it disturbed me. Everything is floating. I went back that Friday, to a knock on the door. It shakes, brings me back to questions and thoughts of what he said when he was hurt, did he scream, did he think of me. It's a total return to the event and I'm trying to get out of it slowly. But it fills me. "And I think of the mothers in the country who experience it, after a terrorist attack, after the soldier's son fell, and after years or months of finding the terrorist," she says.
Alongside this, she recounts the moving moment when the GSS representative called her to tell her about the seizure. "I know him. I recently gave a lesson to a GSS unit that caught the terrorist. At the end of the call they told me, I wish we could give you something back. When he called me today he told me, today we are closing a circle, both with you and with him. We repaid the debt of that lecture. And that moved me a lot. "
Miriam also feels that she has closed a circle here but says: "This is not a day of joy. There is a closing of an account on this day. That people who did bad, who hurt, such people should know that the day will come and an account will be closed with them. It is a day of pride, salute, appreciation and appreciation for the GSS and IDF soldiers. It is their day. I felt pride and the right to be a citizen of a country where the names of the fallen are not only written on paper, it is engraved in the hearts of them Angels. I did not think about this day. After burying Eliraz I had a daughter for the groom, and orphaned grandchildren, I had a young bride. I had a life. I never messed with it. not there".
She says that if she had met the terrorist (even though she did not want to) she would have told him, "You do not know who Eliraz was. You do not know how he loved people, without distinguishing between them. How he gave his food to Gazan children and remained hungry. When my son was in battle he told his soldiers to stop a fire because a little girl was crossing the road. He said, we are not fighting the children. Maybe I thought that if you kill him you kill the wind and destroy the family, then you will know we continue to stand upright and keep his spirit "We're carrying it big and that's our victory. And we will not forget and we will come to terms with all those who harm our sons, even if it takes ten years. Once they have caught him they prevented the next attack or the next fall and that is our victory."
