Escaping the Hamas attack on Ofakim: A survivor's story
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- In Ofakim, a Melbourne mum narrowly escaped a horrific attack on October 7. Yael takes us through bullet riddled bomb shelters and tells us how she woke to the sound of automatic gunfire. She may have made it out alive, but 52 people in her town lost their lives when 16 Hamas fighters armed with grenades, guns, and RPGs stormed their quiet community.
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To channel 7, I take my hat off for allowing comments on CZcams! Incredibly important to support free speech and dialog. Sadly, too many channels turn comments off an inhibit our ability to express how we feel and have a voice. So, thankyou! And also thankyou for actually covering stories such as this. While heart breakingly painful, it is also incredibly painful that the world sees the pain and suffering of Israeli's who have been through a "double hell", not only enduring the pain of the initial crimes but then being told it "didn't happen" or worse still, that they're the "perpetrators". Your actions and unbiased reporting are highly commendable.
excelente comentario ,me quito el sombrero por usted.
Yeah 👍 we can see how fuced up Aussie politics is 💩
That's Right ,It's Pure Evil
I relate to what this witness says when something is so outrageous, so surreal and unimaginable one loses their ability to cry, they are in survival mode at that point.
It is so sad that you have bomb shelters in the first place . Where else in the world would you need them. Being rained rockets all the time must be SO stressful even before the October attacks .
That's what I've never understood, people attack Israel for the response to 7/10 but who else would put up with living like that for decades?!?! A daily barrage of rockets, bomb shelters?!!? It amazes me that Hamas wasn't taken out 10 years ago, the level of restraint and lack of desire to shed innocent blood, on the part of Israel, is incredibly commendable. Also, it's becoming clear that Qatar has acted criminally, from funding Hamas, from hosting it's criminal leaders, through to funding misinformation through the likes of Al Jazeera, through to funding the universities and anti-antisemitism on many US and other nation's campus's. Then there's their pressure/backing for the UN, again taking place in Doha, their continual seeking to propagate terrorism and incite violence. They try and masquerade Al Jazeera as being "intellectual" or "western" and yet also target a typical Arab/Muslim audience yet the truth is becoming clearer. Sadly, unlikely that anyone would dare to confront their behavior, including potential abuse of staff, as there would inevitably be severe consequences!
Es terriblemente estresante los niños están traumados y los padres tambien
@AnnaTipa-mp6ep It is very sad, in Australia any new house must have a smoke detector just in case of fire, in Israel, every new house must have a rocket shelter, crazy
@@periodicmotion It's a strange existence in Israel. To have Google maps with "bomb shelters" marked all over it!! What other country lives with that constant threat to their very existence?! Running to bomb shelters all day! It's insane, I don't know how the rest of the world doesn't see the insanity under which many have lived for so long. So true your comment though, it really is crazy.
Die Israelis sollten sich überlegen ob sie noch nach dem Ende des Krieges Menschen aus dem Gazastreifen beschäftigen oder erlauben das diese eine arbeitserlaubnis für israel bekommen. Aus Sicherheitsgründen sage ich nein.
Bin derselben Meinung. Gerade von diesen Menschen hat Hamas genaue Informationen uber diese Wohnviertel erhalten . Menschen , die bei den Israelis gearbeitet haben und denen vertraut wurde . ....
100%
I heard they are starting to employ more Indians and less of them.
In diesem Fall wird wieder die ganze Welt über die Okkupation und Aparteid sprechen und wieder Israel als einen bösen und schrecklichen Staat darstellen. Sogar mehr als früher. Meiner Meinung nach, gibt es leider keine Lösung, die von all diesen Hamas-Unterstützern in der ganzen Welt ohne Widerstand akzeptiert wird. Beileid für Israelis ...
Same! 💯!
The destroyed car with the flag of Israel showing up partly under its door at 09:35 is so heartbreaking and stands as a symbol for the threatening situation in which Israel actually is.
So sad 😢
I see the CZcams censors don't allow us to use the word t-e-r-ror_ i-s-t in the comments! But, Gaza is one big military base, with their families living with the murderers.
Yes they all live together so every family has a brother, son., cousin, nephew etc is a t-e-r-r-o-r_i-s-t or at least know who they are.
Creatures is a replacement word i use.
Y muchos jóvenes ya están en camino de serlo.Son sus enseñanzas.🤨
Absolutely Heartbreaking 😢
Sad experiences for so many. RIP the victims. 😢
Heart breaking… our hearts go out to the community and specially the families who lost family members 💔💔💔
C’est le résultat de l’occupation malheureusement .
@@jeanguykush2252insensitive comment
And untrue.
And to justify terrible massacre with that false accusation is unbelievable.
Israel left Gaza in 2005
Evacuate thousands of Israeli settlers from there (Gush Katif)
So it’s nothing to do with that whatsoever.
@@jeanguykush2252this is the result of jihadism. Occupation is just the excuse for useful idiots for the jihadis.
@@jeanguykush2252Afortunadamente ,esa falsa narrativa muchísimos en el mundo no la creemos😊,pues nos tomamos la molestia de informarnos 😊 no estamos como bobos escuchando y viendo propaganda mentirosa como otros tontos.😊 Viva Israel por siempre y para siempre!.😊
@@iditgil👍
Stand with You Israel ..from Poland ...
I stand with you all. Praying for you continually. God is on your side.
No, there are no gods. Apartheid Israel is a vicious and murderous terrorist state. Is it any wonder that Hamas behaved so atrociously? Yet you cannot even imagine what it is like to live in Gaza.
Viva Israel por siempre y para siempre ❤️
I stand with all the Israeli people 🙏🙏🙏🇮🇱
But not with the Palestinians being daily slaughtered by the IDF?
VIVA Israel por siempre y para siempre ❤️
And people are on the streets protesting, they don’t know what it means to lose someone . I pray for you Israel, May God give you peace all around.
Yes we know as Palestinians what it means to lose some ! NOT JUST ONE BUT 10 , 20 , 30, 40, 50 ,60, 70, SOME ONES OF OUR FAMILY’S with names families dreams hopes children love patients… US PALESTINE KNOW WHAT REAL LOSE OF FAMILY IS BY THE 10’s of 1000’s unfortunately by this racist bigoted propaganda terroristic Israeli regem ! WE KNOW PAIN AND HAVE SUFFERED FOR OVER 7 DECADES
No! Lo sanno meglio di voi cosa significa perdere un nostro caro, soprattutto i bambini, angeli innocenti, morti a migliaia e che i genitori non rivedranno MAI PIÙ!
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Yo lo único que sé es que......si quieres paz,vive en paz,procura la paz,pero si quieres violencia y guerra la tendrás, VIVA Israel por siempre y para siempre ❤️ Israel vive y vivirá.😊
So very sad and tragic and traumatic. No words! I am crying for you. All the lives of innocent people lost.
I took my Israeli drivers test in this charming little town.
Id hate to live next to gaza, God bless Israel ❤️
I would hate to live in Gaza ! Israeli has massacred Gaza and the Palestinians for over 75yrs ,stolen homes lands there sovereignty,dignity, hopes dreams life’s and freedom while illegally brutally occupying them .. I would love to see you love there life and see what would be come of you .
@@suesue9578 Gazans did that to themselves. They had plenty of times to conform to the times yet they choose violence
Poor Palestinians. 😢
@@EliTecapture-ru3vwClaro,quieren paz ,tienen paz,quieren violencia la tendrán,no les importan sus hijos,su odio es más poderoso.😑
@@JK-rz9xjEllos eligieron su gobierno asesino y provocador,y encima instruyen a sus niños y jóvenes en la misma línea.🤨O sea,se llevan y no se aguantan.
God bless you, sir.
Incomprehensibly heartbreaking and sad. So sorry for all you are going through as a nation, just because you are the light to the world. May Hashem heal the whole nation in all areas of their lives…
We are praying for you, from Namibia 🇳🇦
Tyvm for the inside stories that are so personal. All my prayers are with the ppl of isreal 💙👼🏻🙏🏼💙👼🏻🙏🏼💙👼🏻🙏🏼
A case study we sadly see around the world when you have a combination of ignorance, naivety, and an unarmed population.
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Another heartbreaking and incomprehensible story!!! We MUST KNOW EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE what Happened!!!
Sad
Who were the spies who provided maps, details and information to fine tune this attack?
Many questions yet to be answered.
I think they already know for a fact that some of them were among the 10,000+ Gaza residents who had employment permits to work in Israel.
God bless all these precious people! My heart physically aches for them ❤
May light come to thus darkness. Bless us all
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Am Yisreal Chai 💙 😢
I’m so sorry 😢 💔
People coming from across boarder to work, the maps plans, these people had been spied on.
so so so sad.....
This just incomprehensible. These are the actions of criminals. Criminals on a payroll. Contract hitmen. Even ideological hatred does not explain this level evil.
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So sad what happened but God will look after Israel because they are His people. I stand by Israel ❤️🙏🇮🇱
BS. Religion is the problem
Israel vive y vivirá por siempre ❤️😊
Sinwers evil plan .very stressful
That is why you need to arm yourself so you can protect you and your family!!
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Sad, very sad. But I’d be looking at the Israeli PM, where was the IDF, where was the Mossad? A country with the most security minded defence forces and borders and this sort of breach happened? It’s just a little suspicious to me.
what is the genesis of such hatred, my mind cannot comptehend.
Excellent interviewer. I am Israeli American and Australian
From the river to the sea
Izrael is all I see.
How did hamas get such detailed information
Likely from some of the many (over 10,000) Gaza residents who worked in Israel.
Today I told a man who was fixing some cables for TV etc. Did he know that Hamas put a baby in an oven ? Oh don't tell me anything more.) And the First Minister of Scotland gave HAMAS £500,000 of our money !!!!
How horrible is that First Minister of Scotland! My relatives are from Scotland. I will never visit there again while that First Minister goes unpunished.
God bless you always 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️ go out to U all , I stand with Israel gods beloved people.
Do stand strong with your elected government. Do not let the enemy fracture your strength and unity. It is a tactic.
Interesting how non indigenous people can leave the land
God bless & protect Israel 🙌🇮🇱🙌
Am Israel Chai 🙌
😢😢😢Praying for the safe return of all the IDF soldiers & hostages🙌
Chag Sameach 🕎
Stay safe💙
I STAND WITH ISRAEL 🇮🇱 100%, i STAND WITH THE IDF & ADF 100%!!! AM YISROEL CHAI 🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱🕊️🇮🇱💪🇮🇱✅💯🇮🇱🙏🇮🇱!!!! Happy Chanukah 🕎🍩 to the Jewish people around the world!!!!
God bless Israel 🇮🇱 🏴
How the Hell did they get 20k , 13 miles inside the border. I'd be so pissed at my government equally. Bb's whole party has to go. Shameful
God bless Israel.
The government failed in defending the nation. They must take full responsibility
With respect, I find your comment out of place. Israel is united once again under extraordinary circumstances. There will be time, after Israel has defeated these s*****s, to re-examine national security. Let us stay focused and united in prayer for Israel, please, my friend.
With respect too. Where was the border defence and Israel intelligence . The November 7 could have been avoided or reduced. No excuse. Yes you are now united. But what about then. The government must take full responsibility. It is not just about Israel. We are all shattered with this. Face the and take responsibility,!
@@calypso146 it’s because this “government taking responsibility” talking point is political subterfuge that originated with Hamas, specifically to obfuscate themselves as the ones who bear the sole blame for all the torture, r*pes, murders and kidnappings that occurred on Oct 7th.
Israel’s failures in defence are simply that, a defence failure, to try and pretend they share equal guilt with Hamas is absurd. In the court of law there’s a reason why “negligence resulting in death” is an entirely different charge to “first degree murder”. This false equivalency is just pro-Hamas propaganda.
Israelis are doing exactly what they should be, focusing on finding the remaining hostages and taking steps to completely wipe out the t*rrorist organisation that threatens their fellow citizens, there is no “defence strategy” greater than that. Remove Hamas and something like Oct 7th can never happens again.
Only when all this is dealt with could anyone justify taking away the government and military’s resources and immediate focus to investigate the extent of the defence failures on Oct 7th and whether anyone should be prosecuted for negligence.
Pro-Hamas supports are intentionally trying to stir calls for this prematurely, because it redirects focus away from themselves. Away from the hostages they still have. Away from the rockets they keep firing at Israel. Away from their attempts to slaughter all Israeli soldiers out there to search for the hostages while trying to protect all Israeli citizens by removing the very threat that openly promises for Oct 7th to be “the first of many”. It’s pretty clear why this takes precedence over an internal investigation over prior defence failures right now.
@@calypso146 don't worry, they will find their mistakes and take responsibility for them, it should not be your first concern. And stop victim blaming. To have some incertain information without knowing neither the moment of attack or intentions regarding civlians is not the same as to know their plans in every details
Y la asumirán,pero por ahora .....duro contra Hamas hasta acabar con ellos!.
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I dont understand allthis ppl why they have to live near Gaza boarder .whats the reason ?.?
You should be able to live anywhere in a country. No country has no go zones near their borders.
@@North95 yes bit if they r willing to live beside a war zone they shall know the risks and consequences of it .Not the most ideal place to choose if one want to live in peace
I wonder if penny Wong knew this in advance as she gives them millions,god help Australia if this Wong hangs around,she just married another woke so maybe they should have a holiday in Gazza😂😂😂
Israel followed Australia and nearly completely diasrmed the jewish population in 1998.
Yael and all of Israel should hold Netanyahu and his government accountable they knew of Hamas attack plans months back and did nothing. The blood of innocent Israeli and Palestinian civilians is on their hands.
The failure of Israel to respond to the intelligence before the attack needs to be reckoned with. But it was Hamas and Islamic jihad that committed the crimes raping,murdering, kidnapping and then using Gazan civilians as their human shields.
Stop living off conspiracy. Knowing or not is no justification for the carnage of Hamas. If Isreal had gone in on a hint and it turned out wrong, the same people will castigate Isreal as a bully. Blame the terrorist not the victims.
don't worry, they will find their mistakes and take responsibility for them, it should not be your first concern. And stop victim blaming. To have some incertain information without knowing neither the moment of attack or intentions regarding civlians is not the same as to know their plans in every details
@@LinaPouleExcelente comentario 👍
Y lo de Gaza .......es responsabilidad solamente de su gobierno ! Quién gobierna ahí desde hace muchos años? Quién? Tu sabes? Sabes o no? Que pensaba que iba a salir impune de sus crímenes el tal Hamas?.😊
ofcourse this is what happen's sadly when you keep people cooped up & don't give them hope for the future, now they may have a future.
Gaza is run by the Gamas jihadi government. Arabs in Judea & Samaria have equal rights as Israeli citizens. Do not repeat lies & propaganda.
Con Hamas no hay futuro.
Are you joking? They’re probably going to live under Israeli occupation - again - for the next 20-30 years. After having 18 years of self governance. They had democracy and the right to vote for the first time ever , and they elected Hamas, which immediately declared war on Israel. THAT was why they were “cooped up”, and the blockade was enforced by Egypt at their border too. If you think they’re going to be rewarded for their terrorism now you’re living in a dream world. The last 18 years will seem like paradise to them compared to what they’ve got coming.
I would hardly call them people. More like rapist murderers that torture innocent people whilst chanting to Allah. Totally sick.
Don't try to block the sun with a finger just to divert the attention of the horrible genocide in Gaza.
Ya no mientas.
Raro genocidio.muchisima población joven ,niños fué explosión pero demográfica.
There’s no genocide there. It’s called “war”. Hamas started it on October 7th. They should have made better plans to protect their civilians before launching a war; even the Nazis did that.
Your twisted. Relook your life and find Allah and read the book of God.
I wouldn’t even use it for toilet paper.
Free Palestine
The people in Gaza were free since 2005 when Israel gave them self-rule. They voted for Hamas in for their government. They chose hate and destruction instead of using all the money sent there to help them to build a strong economy. Those tunnels were very expensive.
always one Iranian puppet.
Palestine has the right to defend it self from squatters free Palestine
Que ternura de ignorancia! Pero causa mal en otros tontos que lo crean.
Sadly you have taken their land, they want it back. We just have to see the map of Isarel in 1948, 1967 and now. Give the land back so you have peace or share it if you dare with Hamas around. What kind of life is this?
It wasn’t “their land”; it was British land that was legally given to the Jewish people. Read some actual history, rather than just propaganda.
@@KathyPrendergast-cu5ci Well what right did British had to give someone else's land? Now Israel has the right to exist but not illegally settling and grabbing Palastinian land treating them second class citizen on their land. US vetoed every opportunity that comes up Palestinian to have their own State, it is time International countires stand up and give their promised land.
@@charminanavaratnam6603 It wasn't "someone else's land"; when the British took control over it from the Ottomans in World War One, it became British land and British responsibility.They tried - very naively, in hindsight - to create peace in the region by partitioning the land to create one independent Arab state (Jordan) and a much smaller Jewish one. All the problems that followed resulted from the Arab refusal to accept the existence of any Jewish state, no matter how small. The land Israel ended up getting was only half of what they'd been promised, but they accepted it, and the Arabs still went to war with them and tried to annihilate them. They lost, but have never accepted that military loss and its consequences.
Iranian puppet. Enemy to the free world that you undoubtedly live in. Shame on you.
Reap what you sow...
They sowed nothing. This is from those who elected terrorist from hate. The oppression is Hamas. Now we are seeing Gaza in ruins. The more the Palestine speak the more they show they support Hamas.
Both sides made terrible mistakes.
Entonces no lloren en Palestina y agradezcan a Hamas.
@@awpetersen5909 Yes, but when I meet a Isräel person, I feel more safe, as opposed to Palestinien, Iran or Libanies, I don't know if they are ok ?
reap what you sow? excuse me? i live in that city same neighborhood and you telling me this? who are you to judge? exactly?
Sorry for your loss. You are living on stolen land. Get out!!
And where in the world would they go?? A better option is to split a part of Israel and give to palestine. The palestinians have plenty of muslim countries to move to otherwise. Israel? Not so much.. since it's the only jewish country in the whole world.
@elin_ You understand nothing. Literally. It's not a Jewish state. It's a Zionist, ethno-state. Does 'Uber Allas Deutschland' ring a bell?
No,Israel es de los israelíes y siempre lo será 😊
It’s not stolen land. It was legally given to them by the British, and approved by the UN. Read some f***ing history. Anyway, where do you live? Who lived there before your people did?
buy me ticket and home then i'll go :) oooo wait you wont cause its easy to say that isnt?
Sad
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