VIDEO – In the program “Points de Vue” Hadas Kalderon tells the story of an unbearable wait when his two children Efez and Sahar were still in the clutches of Hamas. She is still waiting for the release of her father Ofer, from whom she has no news.
On October 7, the Kalderon family in Kibbutz Nir Oz, less than two miles from the Gaza Strip, was suddenly awakened at dawn by the sound of bombs. In the Figaro live show “Points de Vue”, Hadas, the mother, tells the unspeakable. That day, his two children aged 12 to 16, Erez and Sahar, “witnessed the pogrom with their own eyes. They saw everything: the 200 to 300 terrorists, the shootings, the burning houses, the bodies on the ground…” she tells our journalist.
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Hiding for hours, they were unable to escape the kidnapping. The children spend 52 days in captivity “without seeing sunlight for two months,” separated from each other and even from their father Ofer, who is still held hostage. On the evening of November 27, the negotiation agreement between Hamas and Israel included the liberation of Erez and the Sahar. “An indescribable moment,” Hadas Kalderon recalls cautiously, even though she had been warned about the repatriation of her meat “two or three hours earlier by a call from the Israeli army.”
But “nothing will ever be the same again,” says Ofer’s ex-wife, who is still a hostage but about whom they “have no news.” Maybe he has already died, no one seems to know. “We are in complete darkness. If by some miracle he is alive today, he may not be alive tomorrow. Day after day we learn that hostages are being killed …,” recalls Hadas Kalderon in “Points of View” with an emotional voice.
“They smoked a cigarette, looked in the fridge and made themselves a coffee”
From now on, families from Kibbutz Nir Oz are refugees on the border with Egypt. The village lies in rubble and ashes, decimated. “We don’t have a home anymore. They even killed the dogs and cats, our elders, while they were curled up in their beds,” she says. The wound is far from healed because the survivors know that “for them it is a miracle.” The terrorists walked through the kibbutz as if it were their own village. They were afraid of nothing, came to massacre, to kill,” and then, intoxicated by terror, “to smoke a cigarette, rummage through the refrigerator and make coffee.”
Finally, the French-Israeli mother of Sahar and Efez is now calling on the governments of Israel, Egypt, Gaza and Qatar to come back to the table to free the remaining hostages, including the father of her children, “innocent citizens.” are not soldiers. Then at the end: “You saved the women and children, save the men too!”