An Israeli flag featuring a yellow ribbon, a symbol of support and solidarity with hostages, flutters near a building damaged during the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas, the day before the first anniversary of the attack, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel, October 6, 2024.
One year after Oct. 7, many Israelis from Kibbutz Be’eri say they can never forgive the Palestinians who supported Hamas. But the son of a Canadian peace activist killed in the community warns that more war won't bring security.An Israeli flag featuring a yellow ribbon, a symbol of support and solidarity with hostages, flutters near a building in kibbutz Be'eri, which was one of the communities hardest hit during the deadly Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, with 102 people killed.
Unlike in many modern kibbutzim, life in Be'eri still revolves around the collective ideals that led to the community's founding two years before the 1948 creation of the state of Israel. "We had no idea of the scope or the scale of what was happening," she said. "We thought it would be one or two , maybe three. And he could manage two or three.She recounts the horrors that occurred here with a matter-of-factness that comes with repetition.
She became an advocate for workers from Gaza, fighting to improve their living and working conditions in Israel. She founded several major non-profit groups, including the Arab-Jewish Centre for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation, and Women Wage Peace, a group with more than 44,000 members. He says while he shared his mother's political leanings when he was younger, in recent years he had not been especially active on the issue of ending Israel's 57-year occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Instead, his focus was on his young family and his job as a social worker in Tel Aviv.But he says the atrocities of Oct. 7 — along with his mother's horrible death — altered the trajectory of his life.
This man's son, killed in Iran's attack on Israel, was waiting for a ceasefire in Gaza to return home Members of kibbutz Be'eri look at an artist's rendering of new housing planned for the community, which suffered major damage in the Oct. 7 attacks.
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