The Full Testimony
Testimony of
Erez Arieli
Erez and his family sat in the safe room without reception after the terrorists entered the kibbutz. Erez went out for breaks in the hallway of the house to catch up and realized that the terrorists had entered the home of his next-door neighbors when other houses in his block were set on fire. He armed himself with a knife in case they broke into their house as well. Only in the evening did they escape and evacuate In their private car. While driving on the dark road to the north, they first noticed the remains of burned cars, bodies lying on the side of the road, and a burned Israeli tank. Only then did they begin to understand the scale of the disaster. Two months after 7/10, Erez was diagnosed with a rare lung cancer, which may have erupted as a result of the trauma.
Place of the event:
Holit
Name:
Erez Arieli
Organization:
None
Language:
English
Credit:
Videography: Ari Bloch
Interview: Galia Shiloach
Video editing: Dov Gazit
Content editing: Tali Segev
Other media
Matar Belzer
They didn't know that there were 3,000-4,000 people in actual danger of their lives - Matar Belzer
Dany Zernitsky
The iron scars will remain with everyone who experienced the Shabbat in October; we must deal with them. - Dany Zernitsky
Yaell Malka
Everyone came and left with weapons and were alert and tense. You could feel it in the air. - Yaell Malka
Lina Orlov, Rotem Yaakobi
Three hundred bodies on the road, all around, people shot still inside the vehicle, bodies... and no one is here - Lina Orlov, Rotem Yaakobi
Idan Caspi
I understood that they were aiming for my head. If the balloon hadn't been there, it would have hit my head. - Idan Caspi
Nofar Gahali
No one prepares you— not for this pain nor for the scenarios you've seen there. - Nofar Gahali
Laura Lotem Chezes
“Everything was out, the bedroom, the kitchen. I looked at the living room and saw that they had broken the window there and came through it. I “flew” back to the safe room”. - Laura Lotem Chezes
Tali Hadad
“I said to the guy: "listen, I’m going to get the car and evacuate casualties. He said: “go, your a hero”” - Tali Hadad
