(Hai Pa) - "I have seen many disasters, but the Iron Swords War in the south is a holocaust event that happened to the State of Israel and the residents of the south. Difficult scenes of children who were burned, and a huge amount of murdered people who came to celebrate at a party," says Israel Ravivo, head of the ZAKA North Lahi team Here is the news corporation.
It was supposed to be a normal routine day
It was supposed to be another routine day for Israel Rabivo, the head of the ZAKA North team, a 39-year-old resident of Kiryat Ata, but on the morning of Saturday 7/10/23, ZAKA North received a report of an incident in which about 100 missiles were launched into the south.
A different event, both in dimensions, both in quantity and in plays
Zeka North has over 200 volunteers who are part of the thousands of volunteers in the rabbis of the country. As the event continued to unfold, Rabivo announced at work that he would not be coming, separated from his wife Rina and his four children (two boys and two girls) and joined the Zeka North team. But this event was different, both in dimensions and quantity and in plays.
Israel Rabivo says in an interview:
We went down south in an ambulance with Hizki Parkash Kambatz Zaka North to the party area in Ra'i. On the way we saw all the terrible scenes: corpses lying on the road and vehicles that caught fire with young men and women in them who had come to celebrate at a party. Every day at 00:00 at night we returned to the north and once again at six in the morning we arrived at a meeting point and drove south.
We reached all the settlements: we passed through Kfar Gaza, Nir Oz, Nahal Oz outpost, Bari. We have seen horrors and things that are difficult to describe and we will not describe them out of respect for the dead, even though the whole world should know them. What is told in the media is a small part. There were shocking things: burnt bodies, burnt houses, shot animals. Basically everything that was alive became dead.
We do the holy work we do out of a mission. These are acts of kindness, acts of heroism. We try to deal with the mirrors through therapists and psychologists.
A holocaust that happened to the State of Israel and the residents of the south ► Watch
Israel, who for many years has volunteered at ZAKA and other organizations such as the police, the rescue union, friends and firefighting and has seen many disasters, says: "I have seen many disasters, but the war in the south with iron swords was a holocaust that happened to the State of Israel and the residents of the south.
I have seen difficult scenes of children being burned alive and naked, a mother who tried to hide in the MMD and at the end her house was set on fire with the MMD, animals shot at them. Engraved in my memory is the huge amount of those who were murdered who came to celebrate at a party during Simchat Torah - one of the happiest holidays in Israel. The terrorists came to destroy our holiday and the good fabric of life that was.
They simply came to murder and slaughter children, women and the elderly, things that cannot be described and the people will not forgive them for it.'
The message: "Unity not only in times of war" ► Watch
Israel continues: "The strong message I want to convey is the importance of unity." Before the war, there was no unity in the nation and there were divisions - leftists, rightists, ultra-Orthodox Arabs, all sectors. I think that today the people are united and I ask why we were not united before. Being united during war is honorable but where were we before the war. I hope that with God's help we will know days and good news.'
Anyone interested in helping - please contact ZAKA
Israel appeals and asks anyone who is interested in assisting and helping to contact the ZAKA so that they can continue the holy work. He also says: "We are also preparing in the north and we have a lack of warehouses. We have many gaps. In this war we used a lot of equipment that we did not normally use And we lack a lot.'
A line of heroes
Israel, as we have already mentioned in the article, is a volunteer in all life-saving organizations, Yehud Salva, Yedidim, police, firefighting and ZAKA 24/7 both on Saturdays and on holidays. He is the son of a father who served in the Israel Defense Forces for 30 years in the military rabbinate in identifying martyrs. His brother serves in the Home Front Command, Northern Command.
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