The terrorist attacks by Hamas transformed life in Israel overnight. How are people coping? Amid war between Israel and Hamas and escalating tensions across the Middle East, we meet people whose everyday lives are now marked by fear and suffering.
British-Israeli curator and artist Sofie Berzon MacKie was in the Be’eri kibbutz when Hamas attacked. She hid with her children while others from her community were killed just meters away. Ori Szternfeld is an Israeli filmmaker whose wife is pregnant. Right now, their feelings fluctuate between excitement about the baby they’re expecting very soon, and uncertainty about the world they’re bringing it into. Surfing4Peace founder Arthur Rashkovan and singer Omer Moskovich are undeterred by the fear and instability in their country and refuse to give up hope.
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Among those already released is nine-year-old Emily Hand, a dual Irish-Israeli national. Emily marked her ninth birthday in captivity. Meanwhile, her family received a succession of devastating updates, first hearing that she had been killed in the Hamas attacks of October 7th. And then being told she was actually among the hostages held in Gaza.
The militant-Islamist group Hamas has handed another 10 Israeli hostages and two foreign nationals over to the International Red Cross as part of a truce deal with Israel. The Israeli military says the hostages are now back on Israeli territory. In exchange, Israel has released 30 Palestinian prisoners, who have arrived in the West Bank. It comes on the fifth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas.
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