BBC OS Conversations: Israeli losses
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October, thousands of lives have been lost in the war. While rolling news and live updates give us minute by minute coverage, we want to take the opportunity to pause, reflect and hear stories from the families of a few of those killed.
Last week we heard from Palestinians. This time, Israeli families share their experiences and memories of those lost. During the surprise raid on Israel, Hamas killed 1400 people and took more than 200 hostages, including children.
Keren and her husband Avidor were rescued that day, under gunfire, from the Kibbutz Kfar Azar. But a few days after, the family heard that both Keren’s parents, Cindy and Igal, had been killed. “She was just the biggest soul,” says Keren of her mother. “She was a humanitarian through and through, she was just all heart.”
Host James Reynolds also speaks to Magen, a teacher from Israel who lives in London. His parents, Yakov and Bilha, were both killed in the attack. We bring Magen together with Elana, the mother of Yannai who was serving as a trainer in the Israeli Defence Forces. Yannai was killed defending his base, helping to save the lives of dozens of other young men and women. He would have celebrated his 21st birthday on the day before we spoke.
BBC OS Conversations is a Boffin Media production in partnership with the OS team.
(Photo: Keren with her baby, her sisters and her parents)
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| 0:00.0 | It's like driving a car under an avalanche, but you're taunting the avalanche rather than trying to get away from it |
| 0:08.5 | Amazing sports stories from the BBC World Service |
| 0:13.0 | Find it wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, I'm James Reynolds. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:22.0 | In BBC OS Conversations conversations we bring people together from around the world |
| 0:26.8 | to share their experiences. And once again we return to the war in Gaza and Israel. |
| 0:35.0 | Every death in the war between Israel and Hamas means the loss of a loved one for family and friends left behind. |
| 0:42.0 | Over the past couple of weeks, we've taken for family and friends left behind. |
| 0:43.0 | Over the past couple of weeks, we've taken the time to hear some of the stories of those lost. |
| 0:48.0 | In this edition, Israeli families share their experiences. |
| 0:52.0 | My daughter had her first driving lesson this week and she came back super excited that she driven and |
| 0:58.0 | and all of a sudden her face fell and she just she started to sob and she said the person who I would want to tell most about it is you know |
| 1:05.0 | more than a month into the fighting the scale of the suffering and devastation in Gaza and Israel is simply overwhelming. |
| 1:15.6 | According to the Hamas-run health ministry, some 10,500 people have been killed in |
| 1:20.5 | the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli air and land strikes. |
| 1:25.0 | Last week we heard from two Palestinian men, miles apart in Turkey and Scotland, whose own |
| 1:30.1 | families had been killed in Gaza. |
| 1:32.2 | In today's edition we returned to the Hamas |
| 1:34.8 | attacks of the 7th of October and the Israeli families now holding on to |
| 1:39.8 | cherished memories amid the heartbreak. |
| 1:43.0 | A reminder that the raid into Israel by Hamas, |
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