Yotam Kipnis does not know if his parents and other family members were killed or taken hostage in Be’eri kibbutz assault
Lilach and Eviatar Kipnis, who have yet to be found after an attack by Hamas on the Be’eri kibbutz on Saturday.Lilach and Eviatar Kipnis, who have yet to be found after an attack by Hamas on the Be’eri kibbutz on Saturday.otam Kipnis hasn’t heard from his parents since 8.30am on Saturday, when he rang his mother and she told him they were hiding inside the shelter of their home on the Be’eri kibbutz and could hear gunfire outside.
“I fear the worst, but they may still be alive and may be being held hostage,” said Kipnis. “I don’t know where anyone is or whether my father has been separated from his carer. I want people to know about the situation of the hostages in Gaza and I want the situation to end as quickly as possible with the lowest number of casualties and the least damage.”
Kipnis said Smotrich did not speak for all Israelis. “The finance minister said that he didn’t really care about the hostages as far as the war efforts go,” he said. “But I want the Israeli public and the international public to know that we do care about the hostages. They are families and our friends. They are human beings and we have to do what we can to get them released and to cease the bloodshed as quickly as we can.
Kipnis also said those on the Be’eri kibbutz had long feared an atrocity on Saturday’s scale. “A friend of mine used to say that our lives on the kibbutzim are 95% heaven and 5% hell,” he said. “That was because of the wars and the operations over the years.”
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