A five-year-old girl, Emilia Aloni, and her mother were held by Hamas for seven weeks after being taken from the kibbutz of Nir Oz near the Gaza border.
They were released and Emilia returned to her kindergarten, receiving hugs from her classmates.
“I missed you,” classmates said. (Trending: Elon Musk Condemns Arrest Of Jan 6 Protester)
Little Emilia Aloni, who was held hostage by Hamas, returned to kindergarten for the first time since being released. Her little friends shower her with love. pic.twitter.com/VJeaOcBSEf
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“I haven’t seen you for a very long time,” a girl stated.
The kibbutz had experienced a deadly attack, and a war correspondent described the devastation as resembling a nightmare.
“You see hell,” correspondent Itai Anghel said.
“It’s like you visit a nightmare. I remember that’s what I felt when I came back from Rwanda, the genocide, when I came back from Syria, Iraq, when I witnessed what ISIS did.”
“And I felt it in Nir Oz. I mean, you see houses completely burned. You see bodies completely burned, mutilated,” he said.
“You know, I can express myself pretty good, but I cannot express the smell; it’s something that sticks and stays with you. This is horrible. You see the handle of the safe room in every house. It’s twisted.”
“It’s a sign of the people inside who tried to give a fight in order to not let the Hamas terrorists enter,” he added.
“I want to believe that they will come back because houses are gone. You can build houses,” he said.
“The question is whether you can rebuild a soul.”
The community’s recovery and the rebuilding of its soul remain uncertain.
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