A year later. One year after the massacre of 1,139 people. One year after the kidnapping of 252 hostages, 101 of whom are still in Gaza, it is not clear whether he is alive or dead. The last hostage was declared dead today: the Municipality of Petah Tikva, in central Israel, announced that Idan Shtivi28, was murdered that day at Nova festival in Reim and his body is still held in the Strip. 6.29 am, “Al Aqsa Flood” operation. A day that lasts a year. And the images of that useless slaughterhouse which now vanish before our eyes.
It all starts from here. Since that land invasion. From the families massacred in their homes. From civilians killed at the entrance to the kibbutzim. From the young people of the Nova festival, from the kidnapped women, from the raped ones, from the tortured bodies. “Dad, dad! I killed ten Jews with my own hands!”, a boy from Gaza who had entered the kibbutzim said on the phone. “May God protect you, my son, how I wish I were there with you!”. They took them, beat them, burned them alive, disemboweled them, beheaded them with spades, burned them in the safety rooms. They filmed the horror. Be’eri, Kfar Aza and Nir Oz. The screams of Noa Argamani. The broken life of Shani Louk. The charred bodies of infants that were difficult to name. Do you remember those images? Or have you forgotten?
The invasion via hang glider
The hostages in the hands of Hamas
Hamas tunnels in Gaza