GRANDMA'S ARMY IN EMOTIONAL DISTRESS

( Cross posted from Grandma's Army)

Yesterday felt like the longest day in my life. I was  spending  the festival - which is considered the happiest in the Jewish calendar - with my daughter, her husband, son and very pregnant daughter-in-law in Gannei Tal (a moshav down south). Instead of dancing in the synagogue we were being confined to their “safety room”, like prisoners, while continuously being bombarded by the thousands of rockets coming from Gaza.

Not long after the first siren woke us all up at 6:30 in the morning my grandson, who was a commanding officer in an elite unit, was called-up. He was gradually joined by his three brothers, one son’s triplets, plus the son and daughter of my other son. With the addition of two of my granddaughters’ husbands. Some are on the border with Gaza and others were sent to the north, where the threat from Hizbullah is always imminent.  

Like the Yom Kippur War, the Arabs took Israel completely by surprise. The war began with a massive rocket barrage, under cover of which Hamas infiltrated into Israel. They invaded 22 kibbutzim and two towns where they murdered civilians and soldiers  and abducted women and children, together with army personnel.

People and the media who refer to these terrorists as “Freedom Fighters” are condoning evil. They should watch them massacre men, women and children indiscriminately, as the Israeli public has been witness to.

One of my grandsons was wounded while fighting to recapture Kfar Aza,  a kibbutz near the border with Gaza, which was being held hostage by terrorists. He was shot at twice. Miraculously, one bullet went right through his body and came out from his back, without harming any vital organs. The other bullet crushed his shoulder and arm, and he was operated on in the Tel Hashomer hospital. Thank God he is recovering.

                                                                      

 

We left Gaza completely in 2005 and have been giving them work in Israel ever since, because their own leaders do nothing to improve their living conditions. We installed and provide them with electricity and water. It was through one of those humanitarian borders that hundreds of terrorists poured in to Israel and began their murderous spree. The devastating loss to this tiny country is unbelievable.