“They must do everything possible to return all the kidnapped people alive. These are civilians who did not harm anyone and were kidnapped in a bloody way from their homes,” says Roy Abrevaya (45) in a desperate phone call from Madrid where he has lived for eight years. This Israeli follows his country’s war against the jihadist group Hamas in detail and above all analyzes any small piece of information that may reveal any clues about the whereabouts of one of his relatives, Nitzan (19).
Unlike the other 199 people that Israel has managed to confirm are in the hands of Hamas in a hideout in the Gaza Strip, it is not yet known if Nitzan is kidnapped or if he was murdered by members of the armed wing of Hamas in his home. massive attack on October 7 carried out with two missions, as reflected in their actions and manuals found in their uniforms after being arrested or killed: kill or kidnap.
Three other relatives of Abrevaya’s cousin’s wife were killed in the attack at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Among them Bila, an elderly woman over 80 years old, who was shot when she left her house in search of the cell phone that she left in the traditional kibbutz stroller. The other victims are Nitzan’s father, a regional official and member of the civil defense unit of the Israeli enclave who tried in vain to stop the avalanche of militiamen and Neta.
The third death of the family in Kfar Aza, one of the places most punished in 7-O, is Neta. Today, posthumous hero in Israel. On Saturday morning, the terrorists broke into his house and managed to open his sealed room-shelter in which he was with his girlfriend due to the launch of projectiles and shots in the surroundings. When they entered, they threw grenades. Neta did not hesitate and quickly jumped on one of them to try to calm the explosion and save his girlfriend. He made it.
“Then she threw herself towards her boyfriend’s corpse and pretended to be dead for 18 hours so they wouldn’t shoot her. In the end she was rescued,” explains Abrevaya, who followed all of Saturday’s events from Madrid. Today, in an interview in EL MUNDO she asks her country to “do everything possible to free Nitzan and the rest of the kidnapped people and at the same time put an end to the terrorist group that controls Gaza.” Two objectives that may collide in an enclave under constant bombing.
“Israelis cannot live with this permanent terrorist threat near their homes. It is time to put an end to Hamas,” says Roi, who works in the real estate sector in Madrid, where he married a Spanish woman with whom he had two children. The Israeli community – he explains – has posted photos of the kidnapped people in various places in Madrid and has organized some demonstrations.
“It makes me angry to see the demonstrations, also in Spain, in favor of Hamas because in reality it is like supporting ISIS,” he comments before concluding with a message in Spanish: “I hope Spain contributes to freeing the kidnapped and supports Israel in these hard moments. I hope that the Spanish really know what is happening and who Hamas is.”