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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/opinion/hamas-israel-kibbutz-attack.html
Video: They Believed in Peace. Hamas Stole Their Empathy
(New York Times) Iris Zaki - The residents of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where more than 100 Israelis were killed, reflect on what they lost on Oct. 7. Survivor #1: "All of my friends in the neighborhood are dead, along with their children. We were crawling in the field, in the ditches....I truly believed that the people on the other side were not terrorists. They want to live in peace like me. But now we can't trust anyone." Survivor #2: "I lost my father. Lawns were filled with corpses....In previous rounds of conflict when I would see videos of mothers and children [in Gaza] I would cry. Really, my heart would break. Now I see it and I don't have that empathy. It's not in me anymore. It's gone from me. It's far from me." Survivor #3: "I always believed that a mother from one side of the border wants exactly the same thing as a mother on the other side of the border....Many people from the kibbutz would volunteer to drive patients from Gaza to Israeli hospitals. When we understand it's not just terrorists, it hurts so much more."