A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and a boy celebrating his fifth birthday were among the more than 1,400 victims of the October 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel.
While it is now ten days since the terror group stormed into Israel from Gaza, details are still emerging about the horrific rampage and of its many victims.
The two murders
Gina Semiatich, a 90-year-old Czech-born Holocaust survivor, was tragically murdered in her home at Kibbutz Kissufim, less than two miles from the Gaza border.
Eitan Kaptisher was celebrating his fifth birthday when he was killed by Hamas gunmen.
Israeli forces have now positioned themselves along Gaza’s border and drilled for what officials said would be a broad campaign to dismantle Hamas.
A week of blistering airstrikes have demolished neighbourhoods but failed to stop rocket fire into Israel.
Palestine’s Red Crescent humanitarian society released video on Monday showing an ambulance carrying civilians and a child being hit by an apparent Israeli airstrike.
World Health Organisation warns
The World Health Organisation has also warned there were only ’24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left’ in the Gaza Strip before ‘a real catastrophe’ sets in.
Officials claim the besieged territory must be allowed to receive convoys of aid and warn that if assistance does not arrive, doctors will have to ‘prepare death certificates for their patients’.
According to reports in Israel, Semiatich was dragged from her home shelter by the terrorists and shot in the head in her living room.
‘We had spoken to her just seconds before; she told us she was hiding in the shelter, scared,’ her grandson said in the aftermath of the attack.
Speaking to Haaretz, Shmulik Harel said ‘Dozens of terrorists entered Kisufi and broke into houses’ in the Kibbutz, home to fewer than 300 people.
He told the Israeli newspaper that he was on the phone with Semiatich just moments before the Hamas terrorists broke into her home.
Once inside, they dragged her out of her shelter and executed her on her living room floor.
Tom Gross, a British journalist and commentator, shared a post about Semiatich, saying she was born in the Czech Republic and survived the Nazi Holocaust.
Number of deaths
‘A child born in the Czech Republic who survived the concentration camp in TerezÃn was murdered last Saturday by Hamas terrorists,’ he wrote, alongside her photo.
The terrorists killed eight residents of Kisufi, as well as six Thai workers there.
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Another tragic victim of the attacks has been revealed to be a boy named Eitan.
According to Israel’s official account on X (formerly Twitter), Eitan was celebrating his fifth birthday when he was killed by Hamas gunmen.
‘Instead of celebrating his birthday, his parents will mourn their child’s death on the day he was born for the rest of their lives,’ the account said, along with two pictures: one of the youngster wearing a Spiderman costume, and another of his grave.
