Nadav Goldstein and his daughter, Yam Almog-Goldstein, both of whom were murdered in Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
“They did it all so easily"
Posted on 05/08/2024 7:00:20 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Hamas terrorists swarmed through Chen Goldstein-Almog’s home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7, shooting and killing her husband and her 20-year-old daughter before bundling her and her three surviving children into her car and driving them into Gaza.
Goldstein-Almog and two other released hostages spoke in person at a screening of testimonials prepared by the Government Press Office and screened in the GPO’s offices in Jerusalem on Monday for press and diplomats.
She described seeing terrorists swarm through their house, yelling “Jews, Jews” in Arabic.
Goldstein-Almog’s husband, Nadav, tried to protect the family and was quickly shot in the chest, his family forced to walk around his dead body to follow the terrorists out of their safe room.
Minutes later, they fatally shot her eldest, Yam, in the face when they found her IDF uniform in another room.
“It all took place between 11:25 a.m. and 11:52 a.m.,” said Chen Goldstein-Almog, weeping as she recalled the moment when she saw that her daughter, Yam, was taking her last breaths, blood gurgling through her wound.
“They did it all so easily and quietly,” said Goldstein-Almog. “By 11:52 there’s a picture of my car going to Gaza. Seven minutes later, we’re in Gaza.”
Once in Gaza, where Goldstein-Almog and her three children remained captive for the next 51 days, it became clear from conversations with their guards that Hamas had been preparing their October 7 onslaught for years, she said.
“They have plans to come again,” she said. “They told us not to go back to Kfar Aza, to go to Tel Aviv, to Acre. “They said it was 3,000 terrorists last time and next time it will be 20,000. ‘It will take us a few years to recover and we’ll be back.’ They have nothing to lose.”
Sitting next to Goldstein-Almog, released hostage Meirav Tal described being briefly reunited in Gaza with her partner’s 13-year-old son, Yagil Yaakov, who had also been taken hostage.
The boy shrieked when he first saw Tal in a Gaza hospital clinic, and the two spent hours “staring at each other like we were in a dream,” she said. The two of them were later released, separately, in the November hostage deal.
Meirav Tal embraces her partner Yair Yaakov’s boys, Or and Yagil Yaakov, also released from captivity, at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital after she was released as a hostage by the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group, November 28, 2023. (Courtesy)
And Luis Har, who was rescued from Gaza with his partner’s brother, Fernando Marman, by IDF forces on February 12, described being taken out through a small kitchen window by commandos and closing the window behind them, so it wouldn’t be immediately noticeable that they had left.
The GPO footage screened on Monday included testimonies given by released hostages and survivors of the October 7 attack on the Gaza border communities, interspersed with video footage of Hamas terrorists as they attacked on that day.
In the film, now-released hostage Doron Katz-Asher spoke about being shot while being taken on a tractor to Gaza, and realizing that her mother, Efrat Katz, had been shot and killed in front of her eyes.
Keren Munder described the fever, nightmares and lice that people suffered from in the tunnels, while her son, Ohad, 9, described being constantly surrounded by terrorists with weapons. Both were released from captivity at the end of November.
It was evident how difficult it was for the released hostages to recall their traumas aloud, sitting onstage at the GPO gathering.
Tal, whose partner, Yair Yaakov, was at first presumed taken captive from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz and was later discovered in February to have been killed on October 7, described being taken captive with Ada Sagi, 75, also from Kibbutz Nir Oz. Once in Gaza, the two women were instructed to strip naked so they could be searched for an IDF chip their captors assumed they would find implanted in their bodies.
Tal insisted, shaking with fear, on being checked by a woman, an argument that she eventually won. The two were then dressed in traditional Palestinian clothing and photographed with a parade of people who kept coming into the apartment.
Fearing sexual assault, Tal, 53, kept telling her captors that she was an old lady.
“In normal life, you want to be young but in life there, I had no problem being even 100 years old,” she said. “There was a lot of fear in those 45 days.”
All of the released hostages spoke about the overt sexual threats made by their captors.
Har was kept hostage with his partner, Clara, and her siblings and niece, Mia Leimberg. Har said they were fearful about Mia, 17, as one of their captors kept making motions about placing a wedding ring on her finger. Eventually, they told Mia to pretend she was sleeping under the blanket whenever he was in the room.
Without mentioning names, Goldstein-Almog described emotional meetings with other hostages throughout their captivity, including an older couple from Kfar Aza and a young man, and several female soldiers, including two who had started serving in a surveillance unit on the border just days prior to October 7.
“Every meeting with hostages is emotional,” said Goldstein-Almog. “Every one tells their difficult abduction story.”
Most difficult is the situation of those who have not been freed. Goldstein-Almog described younger women trying to tend to their injuries while in the tunnels, removing shrapnel from their limbs, and sometimes forced to perform sexual acts on their captors.
“And they’re still there, they’re still there,” she said, shaking her head. “I thought they’d come out after us. I hope they’re still together.”
Orit Sulitzeanu, who directs the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel, has been helping spearhead the effort to take testimonies of sexual abuse in Gaza.
It’s a complicated matter to receive rape testimonies from survivors as “they don’t want to talk about it,” said Sulitzeanu, speaking at the GPO screening. “They want to deal with it privately.”
There is evidence, she said, but there’s no DNA, as no rape kits were used at the time because it was a war scene.
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“So now Israel is in the family of nations who have women who were used as weapons of war,” said Sulitzeanu, “and the stories will come out gradually.”
Everybody responsible for the disasters of October 7 will have to pay, but only after the war, said Tal. For now, she said, it’s impossible to return to any kind of normal life.
“So routine is not routine,” she said. “There’s a lot of flashbacks, nightmares, bad dreams. We go to therapy, to psychiatrists, and our lives have completely changed.”
Nadav Goldstein and his daughter, Yam Almog-Goldstein, both of whom were murdered in Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023. (Courtesy)
“They did it all so easily"
Again.
The irony is that they all stem from the same people, begat by either Ishmael, lot, easau, or Issac or descended from one of Abraham’s secondary wives or concubines.
“Through millennia of migrations and intermarriages, it seems likely that all of these peoples, the descendants of Keturah, together with the descendants of Ishmael, Lot, and Esau, along with earlier descendants of Shem, and, in some cases, Ham, have gradually merged and become the modern day Arabic peoples.(F13)
At the time Abraham was buried, Ishmael was nearly ninety years old; and by that time his sons were all grown into strong and powerful leaders with strongholds and villages of their own, so they were called, “Twelve princes according to their nations.”
Verses 19-24
THE TOLEDOTH OF ISAAC
“These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian to be his wife. And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah. And Jehovah said unto her,
Two nations are in thy womb,
And two nations shall be separated from thy bowels;
And the one people shall be stronger than the other people:
And the elder shall serve the younger.
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.”
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/bcc/genesis-25.html
Murdering, Raping, Kidnapping Terrorists are being cheered by idiotic American student “protestors” on campuses.
You can’t make this stuff up.
And our government wants to infringe on our 2nd Amendment Rights every day.
Murdering, Raping, Kidnapping Terrorists are being cheered by idiotic American student “protestors” on campuses.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Exactly.
All while the LYING US MSM offers cover.
Just sickening.
“They did it all so easily”
It was very easy for the subhuman savages to murder, rape and torture the Israelis. Their subhuman, savage death cult taught them that it was a great thing to murder, rape and torture Israelis.
We have quite a few, on this site, that support Russia, Iran, hamas and their allies, the CCP and NK.
> “They did it all so easily” <
One reason that was possible is Israel does not trust its citizens to keep and bear arms. You’ve got murderous lunatics who can easily cross the border, and your only defensive option is to run and hide.
At a minimum, every Israeli military or police veteran should be required to keep firearms and ammunition at his house.
Thank goodness our Founders trusted their own citizens. Hence the 2A.
It’s incredible.
Satan is called the Prince of the Power of the Air. (Ephesians 2:2)
Well he’s obviously in charge of CNN and MSNBC.
Let’s no5 forget though, that God wipes out enemies even easier when it is in his plans to do so. The israelites were 9n the run, being overtaken by a very powerful army of warriors. The warriors were all asleep encamped near the jews when the angel of the lord descended on the enemy camp and wiped out every last warrior while they slept
Another time God caused such confusion in the enemy camp that they attacked themselves (could they have been suffering hallucinations because of some mold. Or so ethi g they ate? Perhaps, but more likely that God just caused them to be confused)
In the end the Jews will prevail, but terrible times are coming for them and for the world for that matter before that happens. But the enemy will never succeed in wiping Israel out completely. The enemy’s day of comeuppance will come at the hand of the lord in a terrible and swift judgement
The bible has the whole blueprint
The people in Gaza elected these barbarians. They don’t deserve to be protected.
Why have there been no inquiries from any humanitarian organizations, like the International Red Cross or the UN, about the condition of the hostages? There has been not a word. It seems like it’s just accepted that they’re being tortured and murdered and no one cares. And these hostages aren’t combatants by any stretch. Where is the concern? The silence is deafening!
and remember it was the PLO. not Hamas, who tortured and murdered the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. It was the PLO who used children as suicide bombers and Palestinian mothers who donated their children as suicide bombers. These are the people who teach their children at home and at school to hate and kill Jews and Christians. These are people who celebrated on 9/11 and anytime they read of an American death. These are not good people.
Excellent point .... Prince of Power of the (DNC controlled) Airwaves.
Look at TV - listen to modern “music” (much of it)
Its easy when your victims don’t shoot back. It will not surprise me if we meet up with some of this in the US before its all said and done but if they come through our neighborhood they’re going to be facing a lot of folks with guns.
The scary part is that the average air-head that’s currently involved in those pestilential “protests” is now pretty much firmly convinced that 07 October either “never happened”, and/or if it did, it was (apparently) a “false flag perpetrated by Mossad”.
blah blah blah ad infinitum/ad nauseum
Bible, shmible. It’s a real comfort to the dead and their families to know that God has a plan. Don’t worry, you might be dead but God can end this easily whenever he decides to.
Hey, someone judging the righteousness of God, good luck with that.
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