Yael Bar tur
"October 7, 2023, it turned out, wasn’t the first time killers came for him. He was 3 years old when thousands of Muslim rioters filled the streets of Baghdad in the early summer of 1941, some armed with swords and knives. They descended on Jewish streets and apartments and began to loot, rape, and kill. “They broke into our home, badly beating my father and dealing my mother, too, multiple hard blows,” Mantzur wrote. When the family dog tried to protect her owners, the attackers killed her. As the rioters looted the house, he recorded, he ran upstairs to the roof. He heard screaming, and saw “a horrifying act that remains in my memory to this day.” The diary describes the murder of a baby by assailants with knives. The screams were from the child’s mother." - @MattiFriedman in @TheFP about Israel's oldest hostage, Shlomo Mansour.
