In the video: Gaza village residents visited the destroyed settlement: "We will not be restored as long as the abductees are in Gaza" 07.01.24/Avi Rokah
"Our feelings are hard, we feel betrayed and humiliated, my son's honor was disrespected," says Itzik Edri this evening (Thursday), the father of Aviad Edri, who was murdered in his home in Kfar Gaza in a massacre on Black Sabbath on October 7. Aviad was buried six days later, but after five months they discovered that he was buried without any central organs, when it was announced this evening that he was buried without a head. "You put a plastic head on him," the family members said in a shocking article published this evening in this news.
"Our daughter insisted on knowing how her brother was murdered, she wanted to see the photos and then it turned out that he was buried without a head," says father Itzik. "Let them not tell stories, they knew it, and damaged the trust we have in the country" Itzik added.
Aviad Adri was one of the tenants in the youth neighborhood in Kfar Gaza. The kibbutz suffered a severe blow in the terrorist events of October 7, when out of its 950 residents, 63 were murdered, 19 were kidnapped, including four who are still in captivity, and two were killed by IDF forces during a self-rescue attempt. Among the residents, approximately 250 children, of whom half A year after the brutal massacre, the reality is that it is not yet clear when they will return to their homes.
"From a thriving and prosperous kibbutz, with a waiting list to be taken in by us, we have become refugees, bereaved, hurt and missing in a part of the community that is still captive in Gaza," said community manager Efrat Sharabi, who clarified: "Our ability To recover depends largely on bringing all our friends home. The strength of our community is together. We are working very hard today on collecting the fragments, marking a clear arrow in the direction of the goal: returning home, to Gaza village. But the road there is very winding," she claimed.
Efrat also talked about the loss of trust and security, and the importance of returning the abducted in this context as well. "On October 7th, a horrific thing happened that nothing prepared us for. With it, came the fracture and loss of our security in the country. The trust and alliance between a state and its citizens has been violated. In order for us to return and succeed in rehabilitating, the state needs to guarantee security in a clear and distinct way and rebuild trust. Returning all the abductees home is the first and necessary step on the way back."
Last January, the residents of the kibbutz returned to their home for the first time since the heavy disaster that struck the settlement on October 7. "I'm sorry I didn't come that day," Yamit, Doron Steinbracher's sister, who is still a captive in the Gaza Strip, said at the event. Beside her, family members of other abductees from the settlement spoke, insisting that its rehabilitation lies in the return of the four members of the locality who are still in captivity.
Chen Almog Goldstein, who was kidnapped to Gaza and released, also shared the heavy loss: "On October 7, I lost my husband, who was murdered in the MMD when he tried to protect us. Bati Yam was murdered a few minutes after that." She described the difficult feelings of the abductees in Gaza: "It is very difficult there beyond the fence. It's a battlefield, very dangerous there. We left them and they are still there. Some of the abductees were physically and mentally injured. They are not treated properly, I am very worried about them. They must be returned immediately."