‘I don’t really have any other choice’: Young Israelis around the world return home after Hamas attacks
When he heard that Hamas militants were attacking a music festival his family was attending, Ben Ovadia said Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for his mother. “I didn’t know what to do. I said please kill her because it would be better than being kidnapped,” Ovadia, 38, told CNN on Wednesday. “It’s a nightmare. I said ‘please kill her, don’t take her there.’” Over WhatsApp, he watched, helpless, as his mother and younger brother sent updates for eight hours, telling him that they were hiding in small bushes, hearing gunfire and people walking past saying “Allahu Akbar.” 카지노사이트 “(Every message) took about two minutes to arrive and in between there was no communication,” he said. “Every two minutes you are tearing your hair out to get an answer.”