Friends and relatives say Hamas killed a grandmother, parents protecting their children, and an entire family during raids
A little after 11pm on Sunday, the Israeli government posted a photograph of a family on one of its social media accounts. There were five people in the selfie: a mother, a father and their three young children, all of them smiling.
“Tamar, Yonatan and their children Shachar, Arbel, Omer,” the caption read. “An entire family wiped out by Hamas terrorists. There are no words. May their memory be a blessing.”
Moments later, the former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett reposted the photo.
“An entire family murdered in cold blood,” he wrote. “Look at their happy faces. Their love. All of them murdered by Palestinian terrorists at Nir Oz kibbutz. Just because they’re Jews.”
Although it remains unclear exactly what happened to the Kedem family on their kibbutz, which lies a mile and a half from the border with Gaza, their picture – and the story of their murders – has been widely shared to illustrate the utter pitilessness and ferocity of Hamas’s attack on Israel.
According to friends in Australia, the family rushed to their safe room when the assaults began, from where they sent a WhatsApp message.
“Hi guys, we got into the shelter in our house, we’re all going okay,” the text read.
An hour later, however, Tamar had stopped responding to messages from Yishai and Mor Lacob, her friends in Sydney.
I remember those videos of IDF soldiers pulling raped dead women through the streets of Telaviv while people cheered and spat on the bodies. Oh wait, I don’t.
You’re right, both sides of this conflict have their own flavors of atrocities
One side just happens to be a supposed democracy with one of the most advanced armies in the world with the most destructive and deadly capabilities with endless funding.
It’s two sides. But not even sides. Not even close.
One side holds 100 hostages and shoots home made rockets into a wasteland.
The other side holds 2.3 million hostages, and bombs civilians in one of the most densely populated area in the world.
It’s two sides. But not even sides. Not even close
You are so fucking ignorant it’s ridiculous. What Hamas has done is bad, and fucked up. What Israel has done is bad, and fucked up. You are the only one going around saying it has to be one or the other.
And I don’t even want to see a brain dead response from you going ‘hurr durr Hamas did this now so Hamas worse’. It’s not about one being worse than the other, this isn’t an internet edgebot competition. Just shut the fuck up.
what the fuck has your comment to do with the article?
We all knew that there are also people dying in Palestine due to military operations conducted by Israel, but your whataboutism does not justify the killing of civilians by terrorists…
The fact is that Israel has been creating the conditions for this violence for decades. Hamas wouldn’t even exist if Palestinians weren’t the victims of an apartheid state and ethnic cleansing
It’s okay to kill civilians if you’re the government, but not if you’re the rebels? Is that the logic?
no it’s not, read again. and calling them “rebels” is just wrong, those hamas fuckers are terrorists, nothing else!
Housing blocks where war supplies or combatants were hiding. And only after giving warning and time for people to leave the building.
If Palestinians didn’t want their children killed, they shouldn’t have hidden behind them.
