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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Kibbutz Kfar Aza

The remains of a house in what used to be the young people's section of Kibbutz Kfar Aza are seen on September 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
October 7, 2024, 4:24 pm
Scattered by October 7, Kfar Aza’s residents wonder if they can ever go home again
Members of close-knit community, nearly empty after being shattered in Hamas terror onslaught, are still buffeted by vulnerability and anger: ‘Are we going to live in a memorial?’
By Julia Frankel
Aharon Ben Haroush, right, talks to IDF soldiers during the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. (United Hatzalah)
October 7, 2024, 8:40 am
United Hatzalah first responder reveals harrowing experience on Oct. 7 ‘road of death’
‘It was like a terrifying train,’ says an EMT who treated casualties on Route 232, yet he tries to remember the good he and other volunteers did that day
By Diana Bletter
Yuval Buyum (Courtesy)
October 6, 2024, 10:23 pm
Yuval Buyum, 21: Talented pianist whose ‘soul was wrapped up in music’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7
By ToI Staff
Batsheva Yahalomi in front of her Kibbutz Nir Oz home on September 30, 2024, where she, her husband and three children were grabbed by terrorists on October 7, 2023. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
October 6, 2024, 6:26 am
A year after Oct. 7, Kfar Aza and Nir Oz are mostly empty, with residents in anguish
Survivors return briefly to visit their homes, sift through wreckage and shake their heads in disbelief that loved ones are still held hostage in Gaza
By Jessica Steinberg
Modi Amir (Courtesy)
September 26, 2024, 5:59 pm
Modi Amir, 67: ‘Quick thinking’ dad sacrificed himself to save family
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in his home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7
By ToI Staff
Naomi Dgani (Courtesy)
September 24, 2024, 5:15 pm
Naomi Dgani, 80: Retired nurse who was ‘sensitive and sentimental’
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7
By ToI Staff
Former Gaza hostage Aviva Siegel, wife of hostage Keith Siegel, a US citizen, listens during a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion with families of US hostages held by Hamas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
September 23, 2024, 3:17 pm
‘It could have been Keith’: Aviva Siegel says hostages’ murders sap her hopes for husband
She survived 51 days of Gazan captivity, but doesn’t know if her partner of 40 years is still alive, and what tortures he has undergone if he is
By Jessica Steinberg
Adi Levy-Slama, who lost five relatives during the October 7 attack, attends memorial ceremony for the Kutz family at the Gan-Yavne cemetery in southern Israeli town of Be'er Tuvia on September 5, 2024. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
September 23, 2024, 11:34 am
Pain still raw for relatives of slain Kutz family as they visit Kfar Aza again
Relatives revisit scene of October 7 attack as Jewish period of mourning ends, almost a year after Hamas terrorists murdered Livnat, Aviv, Rotem, Yonatan and Yiftach
By AFP and ToI Staff
Attendees at the IDF Widows and Orphans "Stronger than the Wind: Embrace, Strengthen and Support" conference in Kfar Saba on September 17, 2024. (Nir Davidson/IDFWO)
September 18, 2024, 8:03 am
Struggling with a new reality, the war’s 260 new widows find support in a new sisterhood
The IDF Widows and Orphans Organization’s ‘Stronger than the Wind’ event offers ways for widows to heal their hearts and find joy even though they’re ‘devastated’
By Diana Bletter
Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage and wife of hostage Keith Siegel, listens during a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable discussion with families of US hostages held by Hamas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
September 7, 2024, 11:10 pm
Freed hostage says she was forced to read lines, pose with food for propaganda clips
Aviva Siegel, released in November deal, tells WSJ she refused to neaten her hair when captors gave her a brush and hair clip, was made to repeat lines she forgot
By ToI Staff
Family and friends attend the funeral service of Yagev Buchshtab at the Cemetery in Kibbutz Nirim, on August 21, 2024, Yagev Buchshtab was kidnapped to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, his body was recently brought back to Israel in an Israeli military operation. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 21, 2024, 8:15 pm
Hostage families, Gaza border towns join growing boycott of Oct. 7 state memorial
Residents of kibbutzim targeted by Hamas, Hostages and Missing Families Forum all blast event as politicized; Gantz tells Netanyahu that ceremony is ‘not yours, it’s theirs’
By ToI Staff
Lior Golan and Oriana ben Aba Golan, evacuees from Kibbutz Nir Am near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, return to their home 10 months after the October 7 Hamas massacre. August 15, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo-FLASH90)
August 15, 2024, 8:31 pm
Thousands of residents return to homes near Gaza as state ends hotel funding for some
Around 3,700 Israelis go back to towns they left on October 7; residents of 10 communities badly damaged in Hamas attack have housing for at least another year
By Canaan Lidor
Hungarian Rakott káposzta and tomato soup with dumplings, favorite dishes of Itay and Hadar Berdichesky who were killed on October 7, 2023, now part of a commemoration project initiated by Asif Culinary Institute (Courtesy Dan Perez)
July 29, 2024, 6:34 am
A mother mourns her son and daughter-in-law with the dishes that he loved
After Itay and Hadar Berdichesky were killed on October 7 at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Itay’s mother found some comfort in an Asif Culinary Institute project, A Place at the Table
By Jessica Steinberg
Ido Vered-Bar hangs up family photos at the home of the murdered parents of his wife Noya, right, in Kibbutz Be'eri, on July 10, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 15, 2024, 4:41 pm
In ravaged kibbutzim near Gaza, locals embrace hope despite a ‘series of failures’
Authorities’ blind spots before, during and since Oct. 7 are complicating rehabilitation efforts, but many evacuated residents remain determined to come back to Be’eri and Kfar Aza
By Canaan Lidor
Avi Hindi (Courtesy)
July 11, 2024, 11:17 pm
Avi Hindi, 37: Engineer and devoted father of three
Killed while battling the Hamas invasion of Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7
By ToI Staff
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