Almog-Goldstein was more worried at times that she and her daughter, Agam, 17, and sons Gal, 11, and Tal, nine, would be killed by the Israeli offensive than by their captors, who once shielded the family with their bodies as shrapnel rained around them.
You’ve selected the least possible representative passage of the entire article. I suspect the interview subject would probably point to
“I remember there was a hole in [Almog-Goldstein’s daughter’s] cheek and she was gasping her last breaths. There was an exit hole on the other side and her head was bleeding profusely,” Almog-Goldstein said through tears.
or perhaps the opening line,
Chen Almog-Goldstein refuses to forget her eldest daughter’s last moments. Yam, 20, was gasping for breath, having been shot in the face by Hamas gunmen, who minutes earlier had killed her father.
or maybe this line about halfway through,
Almog-Goldstein said. “But we were always terrified they would flip on us, that they’d get an order from someone to harm us, because clearly they were low-ranking cogs in the machine. We were constantly in angst or terror.”
No human being should go through such a nightmare. No matter the skin colour religion, ethnicity, etc. and this applies to Palestinians as well who are now going through hell.
And the whole fact that Israel is doing very little to alleviate their suffering doesn’t bode well with their moral values. They pretend to be better than Hamas and then you read about all their war crimes and the immense suffering of the Palestinians and you start wondering if they are any better than Hamas.
You’ve selected the least possible representative passage of the entire article. I suspect the interview subject would probably point to
or perhaps the opening line,
or maybe this line about halfway through,
as being more representative of her experience.
No human being should go through such a nightmare. No matter the skin colour religion, ethnicity, etc. and this applies to Palestinians as well who are now going through hell.
And the whole fact that Israel is doing very little to alleviate their suffering doesn’t bode well with their moral values. They pretend to be better than Hamas and then you read about all their war crimes and the immense suffering of the Palestinians and you start wondering if they are any better than Hamas.