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(15 Nov 2023)
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Kfar Aza, Israel - 13 November 2023
1. Ransacked home
HEADLINE: Southern Israel residents return to attack site
2. Resident Ayelet Kazir
ANNOTATION: Residents of the Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel have started to return to pick up what remains of their belongings.
3. Kazir exiting her home
ANNOTATION: The kibbutz was one of more than 20 towns and villages that was attacked on October 7 by Hamas militants.
4. Various of Kazir selecting items from her garden to take to grave of her husband David Kachko Kazir, 72, killed by Hamas
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayelet Kazir, Kfar Aza kibbutz resident:
"I came here to pick plants from my garden and some things that he (husband David Kachko Kazir) liked, like he had a special mug, some of his clothes."
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6. Kazir leaving her home with a few items
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ayelet Kazir, Kfar Aza kibbutz resident:
“I’m very glad that I came here but it’s so difficult. It’s very difficult.”
8. Ransacked home
9. Resident Yael Felus looking at destroyed home UPSOUND (English) “Unbelievable.”
ANNOTATION: Before the attack, the Kibbutz was a modestly prosperous place with a school, a synagogue, and a population of more than 700.
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Yael Felus, Kfar Aza kibbutz resident:
"I'm in shock now because here all the young children lived here, they are like my child, everybody here. We are a small community; everybody knows everybody."
11. Mattress outside destroyed home
12. Destroyed motorcycle
ANNOTATION: More than 1,200 people in Israel died, most of them in the Hamas attack and about 240 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by the militants.
13. Chair outside destroyed home
STORYLINE:
Residents of the Kfar Aza kibbutz in southern Israel started to return to pick up what remained of their belongings on Monday.
Ayelet Kazir, one of its residents, returned to collect some plants and items to put on the grave of her husband David Kachko Kazir, who Hamas killed during a raid in October.
He was 72.
"I'm very glad that I came here, but it's so difficult. It's very difficult," she said, holding back tears.
Kfar Aza was one of more than 20 towns and villages that was attacked on October 7 by Palestinian fighters.
It suffered many casualties, and 18 of its residents were kidnapped, among them seven children, the youngest three years old.
Before the attack, the Kibbutz, whose name means “Gaza village” in English, was a modestly prosperous place with a school, a synagogue, and a population of more than 700.
Kazir had to stay hidden in the closet of her safety room before being rescued by Israeli soldiers.
Her husband was outside the home when the raid started and couldn't get to safety.
Not far from Kazir, her neighbour Yael Felus, looked at the houses impacted by rockets.
Her home was spared but she lost many of her friends, some of whom were kidnapped.
More than 11,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and minors, have been killed since the war began, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-controlled Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths.
About 2,700 people have been reported missing.
More than 1,200 people in Israel died, most of them in the Hamas attack and about 240 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by Palestinian militants.
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