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Saturday, January 6, 2024
Mother of Tamir Adar: Saying he was killed Oct. 7 ‘minimizes the magnitude of the failure’ of the state
The mother of Tamir Adar, 38, whose death was confirmed yesterday, writes that saying he was killed on October 7 “minimizes the magnitude of the failure.”
“The message should be different: Tamir was seriously injured when he was protecting his family and the community, in the absence of protection for the community. Tamir was kidnapped while wounded and alive. Tamir was murdered in the absence of immediate medical attention,” writes Yael Adar on Facebook, according to the Walla news site.
“This is the default! It is convenient for everyone to write murdered on October 7 as if it happened in one moment that Tamir did not feel, and he could not be saved,” she writes. “If the state had been functioning, Tamir would have been saved. If the state was functioning, this failure would not have happened.”
Adar calls for her son’s body to be returned from Gaza so that he can be buried.
“Everything needs to be done to release all the hostages alive now, before it is too late for them too and then they write: Murdered on October 7,” she writes. “We lost the most precious thing. Don’t let the other families lose their loved ones.”
Adar left his house at 6:30 a.m. on October 7 as part of the Kibbutz Nir Oz emergency squad. At some point that morning, Tamir was taken to Gaza, as was his 85-year-old grandmother, Yaffa Adar, on her covered mobility scooter. Yaffa Adar was later released during a temporary ceasefire.
