I think this important presentation was very poorly done – an unusual and disappointing result for Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is recognized by those who love him and those who hate him as a master at public speaking and use of media platforms.
The 47-minute documentary of the October 7th horrors taken from Hamas go-pros and Israeli CCTV and car cameras was not released to the general public for three reasons:
1. We do not parade our dead, out of respect for them and their families
2. To prevent (or at least minimize) the ability of hateful people to turn the atrocities inflicted on us into a snuff video for their amusement
3. Sabine Tasa did not want her children, who are featured in the film and survived to accidentally see it.
Sabine has come to the understanding that the world needs to see the horror inflicted on her husband and sons.
Death and trauma should be personal, private. The lack of control over that moment is yet another violation of the sanctity of life. Unfortunately, it is necessary.
May these moments of horror, at least, become a moment of understanding. May some good come out of this evil.
On October 7th, Sabine Tasa’s oldest son woke up early in the morning to go surfing like he so often did on vacation days. He was murdered by invaders on the Zikim beach. Some of you may have seen the video of boys in a bathroom, an invader coming in and shooting them point-blank. One of those boys was Sabine’s son Or.
The video that Sabine has now agreed to rekease shows what happened to her younger boys and their father.
Her younger boys were with their father Gil when the Red Alert warning of incoming rockets and missiles began blaring that morning. Gil raced the boys to the bomb shelter in their yard. He didn’t know that the invaders were already at the fence of their yard.
When they threw a grenade to murder the father and boys, Gil saved his sons, absorbing the blast with his body.
Koren was 12 years old at the time. His younger brother Shay was just 8 years old. They had to step over their father’s body to go back inside, where they faced the monsters alone.
Koren tried to speak with them. He pleads. He cries. He tries to convey the nightmarish reality to his little brother. Hard is that is to watch; to me, it is so much more disturbing to see little Shay, injured much more seriously than Koren, hardly saying a word.
Towards the end of the video, you can see these two brave children escape. They made their way through the killing zone of the murderers outside to reach their mother (she was in a different building across the yard).
This is not easy to watch, despite it not conveying the wider context or the depths of the horror. It is bad enough as it is. Watch and ask yourself if you could put your children to bed at night knowing that people like these invaders are just on the other side of the fence.
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I agree, I’ve seen Bibi do better, usually behind a stand. But the film says it all.
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