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So you can see how close we are to Gaza. And that's the fence we have. That's the border. And they came 540 terrorists and Palestinians. They broke this gate here. In the beginning, I saw that the sender of the devil was here. And then I realized that the devil was here. Not his messengers. The devil himself was here. In the distance is Gaza. Along it is what Israel calls the Gaza Envelope, which was a site of the October 7th massacre. A granddaughter is calling the daughter and saying, "How does grandma know how to make a video on Facebook?" But it was Kamas who took her Facebook, filmed her, and she was murdered. Exactly. Here.
We went to see what it was like and how the people here felt about everything that had happened since. Our conversations were disturbing, eyeopening, and raw, and culminated with a trip to the border itself. Our journey starts at Kabutz near Oz, a farm community a stones throw from Gaza. We were a community of 400 people. Each fourth person was kidnapped or murdered by Hamas terror. Upon getting there, he met a resident, Rita Lifchitz, who is not at home during the attacks. This is a very traditional kibbutz. We had breakfast, lunch, dinner, except on Saturday because we have kosher kitchen. So, this is our dining room
here. Kamas, this door was open, but Kamas didn't check if it was open. He shot into the dining room. And here you can see the water. So all these people are just from this kabut. Yeah. They decided to bring the youngest one and the only great grandfather that ever was kidnapped in a coffin back together which was in the hostage deal. February last year 33 names, eight coffins. We were here alone for 6 and 1/2 hours and only after 9 hours the IDF came and she was speaking with the TV all the time. Like someone call me and say excuse me do you need help? I say
yes we have terrorist inside house. So they say okay so get interview. I say what interview? I have terrorist in my house. I say okay I need to fight for my life for my children of life. So I talk in the news. Why did it take the IDF such a long time to respond? We don't know. And we want answers for this. They say that uh one tank went here there and uh we need answers for this. I will say being here and hearing those explosions in Gaza. Oh, I don't hear them. You don't even notice it? No, because you're so used to it. It's one day I drew by 100 rockets and they came two, four, six, eight and it's
okay. It's not okay. It is not normal that the children has to live under what happened here for 20 years. Lena, this is Lena. And Lena is coming here almost every day to feed the cats that your husband was feeding them before he was murdered by Hamas terror. And all these cats also belongs to some of them belongs to families that is no longer with us. So, she takes care of them. Will you ever be able to live here again? Would you ever want to live here again or no? Yeah. She's saying I'm I'm coming back. And let's see when the houses will be ready. Like American Jews has helped us a lot with the donations to the kibuts
as well. But we're going to be living together. There is two houses together. I'm on this side and she on this side. You've been through a huge amount. You've been through more trauma and suffering than most people ever go through in their entire life. When you were taken back to Gaza, what were you thinking? She said on the way to Gaza, she didn't think about herself. She thought, "What is going on with her son Sasha?" And they took her husband and the car keys. So the only one thing she was thinking about, not about herself, it was what
happened to my son, what happened to my husband? And when she entered Gaza, she saw how the Palestinians were beating the hostages that got in and kamas were protecting them because they needed them alive. What she say it's important for you to understand that many people in Gaza, the Palestinians didn't want this and they were scared to go against or to do something because then they would also probably not be alive. to see our field is just by their field. Me and grandpa we used to go on the roof and we saw when they have tea. They saw when we have tea. Nine hours the army didn't come. We were not protected. If you ask, do we think we're going to be protected?
We just need to hold. Two things we have to note here. One is that Israel had settlements and troops in Gaza until 2005, at which point it pulled out. That was an extremely controversial decision. Two is that these kabuts tended to be very left-wing. Before October 7th, these people were on the forefront of trying to help the Palestinians and push for a two-state solution. So your father-in-law who lived here, he wasn't some right-winger. I mean, he was talking to the Palestinians. I mean, this would have been that's the border right there. Yeah. We're going to go up. So he was as close as possible essentially to Gaza as he could.
Yeah. He was very close to Gaza and he was a true friend to the Palestine people. He was taking children, Palestinian children from Gaza for chemotherapy to showing that Israel was for human rights. Let's go up and see Gaza. Amit made these stairs up to see when the sun goes down and hoping for peace and having a beer. So you can see how close we are to Gaza. So you see our fence here and that's the fence we have. That's the border. They took these tractors and they cross it and they run to here and they came 540 terrorists and Palestinians. They broke this gate here.
Also, from here we can see the smoke. There's just a strike and the smoke is coming up in that town. Do you still believe in peace? I still believe in peace. Yes. I fighting for peace. I'm fighting for peace with the foreign ministers that are coming here to tell them what they should do so that there would be peace there. What should they do? They should see where the money goes. Our tax money goes to build terror because how can Hamas build all these tunnels? How can they build 29 hospitals in Gaza in 2 million people? It was to build under terror. How come that they
have so many so much money for rockets? So, we were in uh the West Bank before this and we spoke to some Palestinian people. What they said in the West Bank was that they didn't necessarily support the violence of October 7th, but that they felt for the first time in a long time, people were listening to Palestinians and cared about Palestinians and that until that they thought they were just forgotten by the world. I never heard that the Palestinians were forgotten. Everybody knows that for all these years, the most thing that has been spoken about is the Palestinians. and what Israel does to the Palestinians. We need to wake up. The
world need to wake up. If not, what is in West Bank will happen to Israel from that side. What is happening in the West Bank now is not okay. The settlers should not be there. There is plenty of land in Israel. You have the fanatics on both side. Fanatics are destroying and the world is destroying. Gaza with this money instead of building under that kamasi they could build up and it could have been Likenstein. It could have been Monaco. No place never got so much money as Gaza, but nobody checked where the money was. Now, everyone, real quick, if you're enjoying this video, we'd ask you to consider subscribing. Our mission here at Roka News is simple. Capture the world without bias or fear. I can't
really think of a more difficult video to do that in than this, but we're trying our best. And if you appreciate that effort and the rest of our content all over America and the world, please hit that subscribe button. Thank you for watching. And now back to the Gaza envelope. Here it's like nothing has been touched since the 7th of October. Everything is still here since the 7th of October. The camera maybe can me here. Here you can see it looks like in the Holocaust. Nothing has been touched here. The evening before he probably saw the all the mess Hamas. The evening before she probably thought in the morning I will put the laundry in the cupboard. And here you can see just be careful here.
Here you can see the food since before the 7th of October. The eggs, the milk, everything here. Nothing has been touched here. The bomb shatter room is only made for rockets. So they couldn't breathe here. See, they couldn't open the This one got stucked. So they couldn't jump out. There was fire. But in a room like this, whole families were in for 9 hours, for 6 and 1/2 hours. They heard screamings, shoutings, shootings, and uh nobody really did understand what's going on outside. This is the home of the BB Boss family. And these kids were like the face of this. Certainly in the US and New York, all the posters you saw, it was mainly of them. And Yaden was kidnapped first and then Shiri, Ariel, and Quir. We had 76
kidnapped. 53 came back alive. So it means that 23 came back in a coffin. and Shiri and Ariel and Cle came back with for dead leaf sheets my father-in-law in a coffee. And here you can see how a house look when it's not burned as well. And here you can see the shots, the shot, the bomb shatter room. Our bomb shatter rooms are not made for uh terror, they're made for rockets. He had to hold here. He put his hand here probably and hold strong kamasha. You have to leave the hand here. You can see all its blood.
She was in charge of the dirty laundry, clean laundry. She had a small shop where we could buy socks, all kind of small things. 5 to 7, her daughter, her granddaughter is calling the daughter and saying, "Mom, how does grandma know how to make a video on Facebook?" But it was Hamas who took her Facebook, filmed her, and she was murdered exactly here. So, what's happening now? So much that's destroyed. Now what happens? We just started to take down the burned houses and not just homes. Our supermarket was over there. You saw our kitchen and uh our kindergarten. They just came to destroy whole near 220 houses. Only six houses Hamas did not enter. They say that there were 540
Palestinians and terrorists that entered Kibuts near us. They were from the same group. They're saying they just today just now they just destroyed their house and clearing it out. In the beginning I saw that the sender of the devil was there and then I realized that the devil was here not his messengers. The devil himself was here in my age. I hope that it won't happen again till I will die. But uh the people, the young people that are coming here have to be sure that nothing will happen. How to do it? I'm paying good money to the government to think about it. It's not my problem. Can you tell them the your story? Not a long one. Say who you are.
I don't have short stories. Well, we'll hear a long story. Anyway, I was the ambulance driver and the nurse in the kibuts. So, I started to run to the ambulance and then I phone to Shakar. He was the manager of the security and I asked him for help to go there to take him and he said area you don't have any ambulance go back to your room what I found that later on that Judy found the our red cross the ambulance and they told her look right near Gadi an ambulance and the army force are in the way to help you it wasn't an ambulance it was a soldier in the area. So she stand there like waiting and they killed her also and they kidnapped the two bodies, God and Judy. I yesterday I heard that I didn't know if they took her alive or dead, but
I know from yesterday that she was dead already when they took her. Were you able to drive around and help people or did you have to hide? Ow. I didn't have even no plaster, no nothing. It was a time in the kibus that it was something like thousand Arabs in this kibbus. It was like a Arab village. I have a pen and a marker and I collect them. I covered them with piece of [__] that they found. I wrote the name on them. I wrote the name on the market. I recognized them. I know who was there. Nobody came to help us.
Nobody. I mean, nobody. Not the ambulances, not the army, not the police, not no one can. We can go in here. This will be my house in a month. We are looking forward and we will be back. And I will be back in one month. Of course, in the beginning, I probably will not sleep good in the night, but I got used to the rockets. I will get used to sleeping the night. But of course it's new. It's beautiful. But it's not easy. It's not because I choose to do that. I'm also a victim of kamas terror. But I'm not going to let it to take over my life. Going to keep on living, keep on living for grandpa dead. Fight for peace between the Palestinians. Our children and the children of Palestine can live in peace together.
Yeah, I'm I'm a resident of paradise. Really, that's how I feel. Cuz they do this all over America. No one ever invites you in ever. You guys kick people out of your houses. This is something that you don't do in Israel. Like, how on earth do you tell someone you should leave? You should get going. I'll show you the door. Like, it doesn't happen in Israel. Never. So, do you live Is this a new newly constructed or is this one of the ones that was here before the seventh? I have a friend. His grandparents used to
live here. So now I live at his grandparents place, which is funny. Wow, this is nice. Yeah. You know, you know how much rent I pay? How much? Zero. Like I'm we're going to start paying rent, but for a very long time it was like go ahead try to charge me for a house that was This is a missile launched by Hamas. Yeah. At me. I was working in the avocado fields and then we'd get these all the time and whenever I whenever it hits you got to go and you got to fix the hoses and the damage that it makes and if it starts a little fire you got to put it out and you look
at the hose and it's like all torn and it starts like bleeding water and you think I'm so glad this is not my neck. Awesome. Great. Look at me all alive. and I would grab them, hold them, and say like, "Whoa, the last person to touch this before me tried to murder me and he doesn't know me." It's also like I think um very American and European to think that it was just one day. It was the seventh and then that's it. And we were always safe and they were always not safe. Um this kills like when they say launching a rocket, this is a rocket. And no, this is the tiniest. Okay. the tiniest one. So, is that why some people live in the uh live in the safe rooms cuz it's like it's an extra room, so we want to use
it. And I would I used to only want to sleep in the safe room cuz I'm like I'm trying to get some sleep. And that's like if you're able to get sleep cuz a lot of us don't sleep at night or at least not well. From near O, we left and went to the site of the Nova Festival where 378 people were killed on October 7th. A music festival going on in the desert on the Israeli side. There at 6:30 in the morning, they heard bombings and then suddenly they were attacked by militants, Garsen militants. When the rockets began, they didn't stop. It was hundreds and thousands of rockets. Then we hear gunfire erupting from within the festival.
We tried to get into Gaza, but entrance is tightly controlled. Still, we know what has happened there. Tens of thousands killed at least and a territory left in ruins. So, in the distance there, you can see Gaza. Through everything we're doing in Israel, it's impossible to capture the perspective of the people over there. There's a huge amount of suffering going on. It's a war zone, and it's still happening. Again, every time there's an explosion, it's weird to be here to just hear it then know the reality on the other side. Something we experience in Lebanon ourselves if you've seen those videos. Two things can be true.
Horrible, horrible suffering can be going on there. And horrible suffering could have happened here to trigger war. We've seen it on this side. We know what's happening on that side. This whole situation here since October of 2023 has been a disaster zone for everybody involved. Now, I've got no idea if there's a solution to this conflict or what it is, but after seeing what happened in Israel and knowing what happened next in Gaza, I've got no doubt the current reality isn't it. Coming back here, if you're originally from here and you've experienced people trying to um murder you, obviously you're very much in love with the place and this place like you build it and you're part of it. you can make it your
own and that's something worth coming back to. Thank you for watching this video. This is one of the hardest topics to report on and we are trying our hardest to do it without bias or fear. If you support that mission, please hit that subscribe button. We'll be back soon with another video. Thank you for watching.
