Day 600

We were immosara. I was in the kitchen in my house. Uh my brother who was in the Israeli army at the time called and left a message. Rumors were coming in about the it's still ongoing. The paragliding into the music festival. We really had no idea of the proportion. It was just very disorienting and and and terrifying. directly could not understand. I couldn't fathom the concept that something had happened that was as so chaotic and tragic. Is my sister alive? She was in that in the IDF and when we found out the news, we just didn't know if her sister was alive or dead. It was just an overwhelming feeling of what is happening and is this real? It just felt completely completely surreal. I only found out uh when I when I turned on my phone uh to see a whole slew of different information of of what was happening on October 7th. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. What I recall most is just the look on everyone's face. There are a lot of images that like burn in my heart and mind, but the one that I couldn't get over and I think encapsulates the day was a video that came out about the Dawn family sitting in their kitchen terrified. Noah Agammani like crying. You saw it. Shiri Bus carrying her boys covered in the blanket looking absolutely terrified surrounded by terrorists. When I visited Stay Road soon after we had a chance to go into the war room and they showed us video of live what had been happening. There was a car. The terrorists came in and shot the parents and a little girl walked out, ran out of the car and didn't quite know where to go. And she paused. What do I do? Where do I go? What just happened? What's going to happen to me? What do you wish people still remembered about that day? As time goes on, it gets a little bit diluted. People forget, but it was horrifying. And that's not something that we should forget. The sense of brotherhood, the sense of connection that every single one of us felt. Unfortunately, we see how hard it is to hold on to that feeling. But if we could just hold on to that, bring that feeling back a little bit, we would be in a much much better place. We definitely became more more one. Who would ever have thought 600 days? When it comes to people being held hostage, it's really a very hard number to absorb. If you could say one sentence to the people who were there that day, what would you say to them? I'm so sorry. Not even for a second can I even understand what you went through. You know, there's no adequate words or expressions that could be conveyed to anyone who has been on the front line. What I would tell them is that we are with them that they're in our thoughts. They are our fileos. They're in our prayers. We are thinking about them at every moment. Your battle, your struggle is shared. We haven't forgotten you and we won't forget you. You're not alone. Even if you're by yourself, you're not alone. We might be far away, but we're all family and we're we're in this together. This is not over. Not for them, not for us. It's time for every member of the civilized world to step forward and bring them home.