{"id":283824,"date":"2024-03-17T07:55:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T07:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=283824"},"modified":"2024-03-19T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T08:11:17","slug":"released-captive-tells-how-israeli-fire-killed-kibbutz-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=283824","title":{"rendered":"Released captive tells how Israeli fire killed kibbutz resident"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Sheen, Ali Abuminah \u2013 The Electronic Intifada March 12, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

An Israeli woman taken captive by Palestinian fighters on 7 October 2023 is grateful to the helicopter pilot who shot at the vehicle she was riding in, killing another Israeli as well as all of their abductors, Israel\u2019s Channel 12 reported last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shani Goren, a 29-year-old resident of Kibbutz Nir Oz, was taken from her home at gunpoint by Palestinian fighters and transported to the Gaza Strip, where she was held for 55 days. She was released on 30\u00a0November.<\/p>\n

Before she reached Gaza, however, a vehicle carrying Goren away came under heavy fire from an Israeli combat\u00a0helicopter.<\/p>\n

When the gunfire ceased, Goren realized that the helicopter\u2019s high-caliber bullets had killed all of her abductors, as well as one Israeli woman, fellow Nir Oz resident Efrat\u00a0Katz.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy pants are all ripped and covered in blood. I raise my head and see dominoes,\u201d Goren recalled to Ilana Dayan, host of Channel 12\u2019s prestigious investigative program Uvda<\/em> \u2013 and by coincidence also her cousin. \u201cAll the terrorists \u2013\u00a0dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

You can watch part of Goren\u2019s account with English subtitles in the video above or on Youtube<\/a>. A transcript is (linked) below.<\/p>\n

Goren and the other Israeli captives who survived the volley of helicopter gunfire were abducted again minutes later by other Palestinians returning from Nir Oz on one of the tractors of the\u00a0kibbutz.<\/p>\n

Only one woman, 63-year-old Neomit Dekel-Chen, avoided their fate by pretending to be mortally wounded from the helicopter\u00a0gunfire.<\/p>\n

On 7 October, the Israeli army implemented<\/a> its controversial Hannibal directive<\/a>, which amounts to an order to assassinate Israeli captives to avoid having to barter for their lives by freeing Palestinians held in Israeli\u00a0prisons.<\/p>\n

At Kibbutz Be\u2019eri, another Israeli colonial settlement near the Gaza boundary fence, the Israeli army attacked a home containing 14 civilian captives and several dozen Hamas\u00a0fighters.<\/p>\n

All but one of the Qassam fighters and all but two of the captives were killed in the intense crossfire. At least three of the civilians, including 12-year-old Liel Hatsroni<\/a>, were incinerated by Israeli tank shells fired at the\u00a0house.<\/p>\n

As The Electronic Intifada previously reported<\/a>, Barak Hiram, the Israeli general who gave the order to fire at the house, told a fabricated story in an attempt to cover up this incident, when Channel 12\u2019s Ilana Dayan interviewed him in\u00a0October.<\/p>\n

The families of the Israeli civilians killed by Israeli army fire at Kibbutz Be\u2019eri have demanded<\/a> that the military immediately investigate<\/a> the incident and the decision to use overwhelming firepower at the cost of the lives of their loved\u00a0ones.<\/p>\n

Israeli military sources have revealed that on 7 October attack helicopters, along with armed drones, swarmed the skies above southern Israel and around\u00a0Gaza.<\/p>\n

Israeli news outlet Ynet<\/em> reported in November<\/a> how \u201c28 fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to\u00a0rearm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ynet<\/em> mentions in particular Lieutenant Colonel A., the commander of Squadron 190, who around mid-morning of 7 October \u201cinstructed the other fighters in the air to shoot at everything they see in the area of the\u00a0fence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he shoots again, it\u2019s me who\u00a0dies\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At least one survivor of the same Israeli helicopter attack that killed Nir Oz resident Efrat Katz has blasted Israel\u2019s repeated readiness to sacrifice the lives of its citizens \u2013 on the day she was taken, while she was held in Gaza, and ever since her return home on 27\u00a0November.<\/p>\n

In a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet the week after her release, Sharon Cunio assailed the Israeli leaders over their sanctioning of the Hannibal directive and pleaded with them to take no more risks with the life of her husband David Cunio, still held in\u00a0Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feeling we had there is that no one is doing anything for us. The fact is that I was in a hiding place that was bombed, and we were forced to be smuggled out of there, wounded. Not counting the helicopter that shot at us on the way to Gaza. You claim there is intelligence, but the fact is we were bombed,\u201d Cunio told them, according to Israeli news outlet Ynet<\/em><\/a>, which obtained recordings of the contentious\u00a0meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband was separated from us three days before we returned to Israel and was taken to the tunnels,\u201d Cunio told the members of the war cabinet. \u201cAnd you are talking about flooding the tunnels with seawater? You are bombing the route of the tunnels in the area they are being held\u00a0in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cunio\u2019s anger over Israel\u2019s repeated implementation of the Hannibal directive is not shared by Goren, however, who was taken to Gaza on the same tuk tuk \u2013 a small motorized utility\u00a0vehicle.<\/p>\n

Asked what words she has for the helicopter pilot that sprayed them with gunfire, Goren replied with appreciation \u2013 and regret that he did not resume his fire at the second group of Palestinians that carried them off to\u00a0Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you \u2013 and why didn\u2019t you stay?\u201d Goren told Channel 12. \u201cAlso, why weren\u2019t you there, here, to take down everyone here? If one helicopter had fired, everything would be okay. We would never have gotten to\u00a0Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goren\u2019s appreciation is all the more striking since she appears to understand that she could have been killed just like Efrat Katz if the helicopter had\u00a0returned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was also trying to hide, to get inside as much as possible,\u201d Goren explains to Ilana Dayan as they watch footage of the second vehicle laden with people that would eventually make it to Gaza. \u201cAt that moment my fear was if the helicopter shot at us again. And this time my back is exposed. If he shoots again, it\u2019s me who\u00a0dies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Goren also described how on 23 October she and other Israelis held in Gaza were hurriedly evacuated by their Palestinian captors from the home they were being kept in amid a warning of imminent bombing, presumably by the Israeli air\u00a0force.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmense\u201d amount of friendly\u00a0fire<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Doron Katz-Asher and her two little girls Raz and Aviv were in the first vehicle with Efrat Katz, Doron\u2019s mother, and Shani Goren when the helicopter attacked.<\/p>\n

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WATCH: The Israeli military killed Israeli grandmother Efrat Katz on October 7, according to a Channel 12 report.<\/p>\n

Full story by @dancohen3000<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/a38HgZ0uTY<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cThm3IbQT1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Uncaptured News (@UncapturedNews) January 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n