Half a year after the attack, the kibbutz celebrates the holiday of freedom with many of its members being held captive by Hamas. "We ask that you let us celebrate the freedom.
Bring them home," cried Asanat, whose husband Haim was kidnapped and has not yet returned. "Feels like they've forgotten they're there. Their every moment could be their last," said Osnat Perry, wife of abductee Haim Peri. "Send my people": the members of the families of the abductees are calling for their release even before Pesach/ headquarters of the family of abductees. "This year our dining hall will be empty, we will not celebrate freedom, one out of four kib butz residents has been kidnapped or murdered," said one of the victims Elad Katzir, who was kidnapped alive and later murdered in captivity. "They don't deserve such fear, such helplessness, such pain," said another abductee's wife.