“Most of the terrorists were either drugged or completely inhumane. Every time a door opened, we told ourselves, ‘This is it; we’ve reached the final stop.’” Luis Har was abducted on October 7 from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak and later freed in a daring military operation in Rafah in February 2024. In an interview, he recalled the brutality of the terrorists and the chaos that followed. “They yelled in Arabic and dragged us out violently. Those with hair were pulled by it; the others, like me, who are bald, were yanked by their clothes and shoved. The entire house was filled with terrorists shouting, banging on the furniture with their weapons, shooting, and smashing glass. The living room, kitchen, and bedrooms were packed with them.” “I saw other homes that had also been broken into. All the doors were open, and the yards were empty and silent. It seemed like they had already taken all the residents of the kibbutz captive. Someone had stolen a bicycle and tied a child’s small tractor to it. Women and teenagers were looting houses, running in all directions, and trying to enter homes alongside the terrorists. It looked like a surreal movie. They trampled us as if we were rags.” “Hamas takes all the aid,” Har said. “I was there; I know what delaying the deals means. Every day increases fear, danger, and suffering. We must not wait, and we must not delay, because with each passing day, the fear grows that, in the end, there will be no one left to bring back.”
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