The horrors of October 7 are there for all to see (though many that are fools or anti-Semites, or both, look away and even deny they happened).
Those that survived as and escaped on the daya, or as returning hostages that are eventually released (in deals where many more terrorists are released from Israel than hostages from Hamas), tell their stories.
But first, the first responders tell you what they found.
First Responders
Hostage Stories
Freed Israeli Hostages Tell Their Stories. Youtube video.
Some of the hostages speak of their religious convictions, and of the prayers they say contributed to their god’s assistance. It’s natural for the religious to pray in such circumstances, and to think their god has decided to spare them (or as one puts it, has placed them in captivity for a reason). This is not different from similar prayers by Muslims in Gaza, or mothers of terrorists who tank god for taking their children as martyrs. There are many reasons for these wars that have raged for millennia, but religion plays its part.
Sexual Assault of Hostages
The trauma of 9 year old Emily, who was released from Hamas captivity
In captivity in Gaza with a 6 year old girl
Daniel Aloni was kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza with her 6-year-old daughter Emelia and was released after 49 days in captivity.
I am Israel’s Lady in Red and this is how I survived Nova festival massacre
Terror Survivor Details Horrors of Israel Attack
What many people don’t realise is that on October 7 there was a massive barrage of rocket fire from Hamas; and what’s significant for those ignorant of the lives of Israelis, is that rocket attacks are so ‘normal’, that this one was only unusual because of its intensity.
Another fact of life is the casual talk of ‘safe rooms’, which many communities have in hteir homes, Hamas rocket and mortor attacks are so common.
So, Londoners, marching for a Ceasefire, ask your grandparents and greatgrandparents, if they are still alive, when they were sheltering in their Anderson shelters during the Blitz, how would they have responded to demands from them for a ceasefire, while allowing the Nazis to continue the Blitz.
Adele Raemer here also talks about the facebook group for those living near the border with Gaza, that she had posted in September about Hamas practicing their attack. There are questions about why October 7 was such a surprise for Israel, but when you live with constant Hamas rocket attacks, terror attacks through the tunnels, a degree of ‘normality’ sets in. I can’t imagine Isralis being so unprepared in the future.
These are stories I hear when I was a child about the Holocaust. I’m living in my own coutry, in the Land of Israel, we have an army, we’re in 2023. How is it I am hiding in my safe room, from the Nazis of 2023, who are coming to kill me because I’m a Jew. When they say, “From the riover to the sea”, that’s a genocidal war cryt, and I take them at their word.
Adele Raemer, survivor of Islamic terrorism of October 7
Survivors Recount Harrowing October 7th battle at Nahal Oz base
Inside the Kibbutz Be’eri Massacre: Hamas war on Israel
Yarin Levin | Survivor of the Hamas Terrorist Attack | USC Shoah Foundation
Nitzan Ezra’s testimony of October 7, 2023
Hamas Atrocities
For those of you that still doubt the events of October 7 2023, there is ample evidence provided by the terrorists themselves, in their own words, in their own videos:
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