'The best part of my job is telling stories that yearn to be told.'
SAN DIEGO - A Carmel Valley man is in Israel, searching for news about his elderly parents, believed kidnapped during the Hamas attacks.As he holds up a flyer, his emotions become hard to contain.As the Hamas attacks were unfolding, he was calling and messaging his parents. Amiram, 84, and Nurit, 79. Both are longtime residents of Nir Oz, a kibbutz about a mile outside Gaza. The two were among the first settlers in the kibbutz nearly 7 decades ago.
“They told me they basically closed themselves in that room, but there is no way to lock the door,” said Cooper.Cooper arrived in Israel a few days later. At the home of Cooper's parents, there were some grim clues: bullet holes on the outside of the home, in the window of the bomb shelter."I think about the terror they must have felt, as they were being pulled out,” said Cooper.“We did not see blood stains,” said Cooper.Cooper says in total, in a kibbutz of about 350 residents, some 80 are missing, many of them seniors and young children. At least 20 others died during the attacks.
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