Heartbroken and Inktober 2023 Day 19

We had another rocket barrage at 14:30 today. Several large explosions, one powerful enough to shake the building. There’s likely to be more of those tonight. Every little sound at night makes me jump at this point, as I expect the sirens to start.

The 13-year-old autistic girl, Noya, and her 80-year-old grandma, Carmela, were found dead today in kibbutz Nir Oz. It took 12 days to find them as they were burned to death. Noya’s last message to her single mom was that there were terrorists taking apart grandma’s house and she was scared. Carmela’s son and two other grandkids are still missing, thought to have been kidnapped to Gaza.

I have no words.

7 thoughts on “Heartbroken and Inktober 2023 Day 19”

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    Daphna Kedmi

    I think our collective heart here is broken into smithereens made up of massacred families,
    grandmothers, children and babies, of young girls abducted and raped. The horror of it is unfathomable.
    I never thought I’d think that being bombed, was actually the easy part. But it is.
    The most difficult part is the emerging evidence of the atrocities committed on 10/7. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to unsee the pictures or unhear the testimonies of the survivors.

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